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Racial discrimination in the United States is deeply rooted.

The American Human Rights Record published by China the State Council Press Office in 2004 pointed out that racial discrimination is deeply rooted in the United States and permeates all aspects of social life.

This human rights record says that people of color in the United States are generally poor, and their living conditions are much worse than those of whites. According to the British "Guardian" reported on June 9, 2004, the net assets of white families in 2002 were $88,000, which was 1 1 times that of Hispanic families and nearly 15 times that of African-American families.

According to statistics, the number of blacks living below the poverty line is three times that of whites. The average life expectancy of blacks is six years less than that of whites.

Records show that American minorities are discriminated against in employment and occupation. According to USA-Today's report on May 5, 2004, in 2003, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received 29,000 allegations of racial prejudice in the workplace. Statistics released by the US Department of Labor show that by the end of June 2004, the black unemployment rate was 1.8%, while the white unemployment rate was 4.7%, the former was more than twice that of the latter.

Minors in at least 38 countries are engaged in slave labor. Of the 45 million people in the United States who can't afford medical insurance, 7 million are African-Americans, accounting for nearly one-fifth of the total African-American population and 77% higher than whites. An article in American News and World Report on March 29th, 2004 pointed out that the Declaration of Independence pointed out that all people are created equal, and the gap between whites and blacks is simply an insult to this "national foundation".

According to records, segregated education is common in American schools. One eighth of black students in the southern United States attend schools with 99% black students, and about one third of black students attend schools with more than 90% ethnic minorities. In the north, more than half of the black students attend the schools where most black and minority students attend.

Records show that racism is on the rise in American university campuses. Fascist slogans and white supremacist slogans, including threats with weapons and language, were found in the University of California at Berkeley and Diablo Valley Community College in California. At Little St. Ross College in California, the school newspaper published a column attacking Jews, which triggered a wave of protests. Chat rooms on the website are occupied by white supremacy people. At Dartmouth College, white girls auction "slaves" at fund-raising activities. At the University of Southern Mississippi, a group of white people shouted racist slogans and attacked four black students after the American football game. In the University of Olivet, Michigan, which has only 55 black students, 565,438+0 black students dropped out of school after being subjected to racial violence and harassment.

Records show that racial prejudice and paranoia in the United States have intensified social contradictions and increased hate crimes. According to the statistics of 1 16% law enforcement unit report published by the FBI on October 22, 2004, among 7489 hate crimes in the United States in 2003, 3844 were related to racial hatred. Among them, there were 2,548 cases of racial hate crimes against blacks, accounting for 565,438+0.4%, more than twice the total number of such crimes against all other races, and 365,438+050 blacks were victims. 62.3% of the criminals are white.

The Los Angeles Times reported on May 3, 2004 that in 2003, influenced by the "911"incident and the Iraq war, there were10/9 hate incidents against Muslims in the United States, with a year-on-year increase of 69%. There were * * * 2,265,438+0 hate incidents against Muslims in California, a year-on-year increase of nearly three times. The record points out that racial discrimination in the judicial field in the United States is commonplace. The proportion of people of color sentenced and imprisoned is significantly higher than that of whites. According to the report released by the US Department of Justice in June+10, 2004, colored people account for more than 70% of American prisoners.

By the end of 2003, 44% of the 654.38+0 million prisoners sentenced to more than 654.38+0 years in federal and state prisons in the United States were black. For the same crime, the average sentence of blacks is six months longer than that of whites, and the possibility of being put into prison after being arrested is three times greater than that of whites, and it is more difficult for blacks to get probation than whites.

Records show that after the "911"incident, the United States openly restricted citizens' rights in the name of homeland security, and monitored citizens' every move by monitoring telephone calls, tracing websites visited, and monitoring the transfer of financial funds. Ethnic minorities, foreigners and immigrants became the main victims.

According to statistics, after the "September 1 1" incident, 32 million people in the United States have been investigated for racial discrimination. Among those who are discriminated against, African Americans account for the most, accounting for 47%, followed by Latinos and Asians, and whites account for only 3%. In June 2004, the US Department of Homeland Security announced the repatriation of 65,438 immigrants, an increase of 8% over last year, setting a new record. The number of undocumented foreigners arrested also increased by 1 12%.

It is also reported that since last year, dozens of immigrants from Mexico or other countries have been arrested every day in cities in many States, such as San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Miami, S? o Paulo, Denver, Kansas and Portland. They are forced to wear heavy electronic anklets like suspects. It has become a national trend to treat illegal immigrants like criminals. The definitions of terrorists and illegal immigrants have become very vague.

The Status Quo of Racial Discrimination and Racial Segregation in America

Yang Yifan, a Boston correspondent for the International Herald Tribune, reported that global racism has not died out, even in the most developed country, the United States.

On August 23, 2003, Martin Luther King III, the son of Martin Luther King, told the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial where his father gave a speech that year: "I know that my father's influence far exceeds a dream." He said that 40 years later, his father's dream has not been realized, and there is still serious racial discrimination in the United States. He asked the US government to improve the social welfare system. This may also be the latest voice against racial discrimination.

The epitome of racial discrimination in America

In today's America, old and new racial discrimination coexist. On the one hand, the old racist forces still exist. Although they are small in number, they can always make waves in American society. John levinson, a black graduate student at Boston University, told reporters that even in his middle schools and universities, there are many shadows of racial discrimination.

He recalled that two years ago, he and his companions went to a club in the university to play. As soon as they entered the door, they felt that many white people cast contemptuous eyes. The waiter of the club came up and said rudely, "This is a private place, please leave you niggers." His companion told him that this is a club only for whites, and the boss has a strong Klan background.

The reporter himself had a similar experience in America. On the streets of Boston, journalists met with the same strange eyes and rejections. Although polite, they are extremely indifferent. Even in school, students can feel this.

Peter Rogge, a scholar studying American history at Boston University, told reporters that historically, the United States has no innate factors that form racial discrimination. America is a country of immigrants. Most Americans have ancestors from all over the world. Among them, Irish, German, Italian and Hispanic whites are more, while the proportion of blacks has reached 13%. In recent years, the number of Asian immigrants has also increased. However, there are still relatively strong racial discrimination forces in the United States. To this end, Peter Rogge believes that it is necessary to find the reasons from the background of global racial discrimination. In the long historical process, due to the high level of productivity in white society, discrimination against colored people is essentially the rejection of backward society and different cultures. This situation has become a microcosm of global racial discrimination in the multi-racial society of the United States.

America: black and white society

On the other hand, from the current point of view, racial discrimination in the United States has begun to appear in new fields, and traditional political conservative forces have also begun to intervene. Simple single racial discrimination has been replaced by cultural implicit discrimination. 1968 In February this year, the US Congress published a report entitled "Report of the National Advisory Committee on Civil Upheavals", which revealed in detail the widespread racial discrimination in American society and pointed out: "Our country is splitting into two societies, a black society and a white society-two separate and unequal societies."

1993 In February this year, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the publication of the above-mentioned report, a Washington-based foundation published another 350-page report, which listed the widespread racial discrimination in the United States in the early 1990s and concluded that in the past 25 years, the inequality among various races in the United States has not improved, but has "further aggravated".

American scholars have noticed a strange phenomenon. On the one hand, there is strong racial discrimination in the United States. On the other hand, any behavior in American society is worried about being branded with racial discrimination. A researcher told reporters that in short, everyone knows that racial discrimination is not good, but everyone will make racial discrimination mistakes consciously or unconsciously. In such a strange circle, racial discrimination in the United States continues.

Peter Rogge gave an example to the reporter. He said that in June, the National History Teaching Center (NCHS) at UCLA announced a set of national history teaching standards for primary and secondary schools. The first unit of the standard describes the origin of the United States, which is contrary to the past method centered on European civilization. It puts European civilization, African civilization and indigenous Indian civilization in the same position, and calls their experiences in colonies "convergence", and emphasizes that European immigrants are "latecomers" on the American continent. After the publication of this standard, it caused a strong rebound from American conservatives. Among them, it is precisely American conservative political and cultural workers represented by American Vice President Cheney who insist on advocating the theory of European civilization center. Their discrimination against other races is not only reflected in the big white hat of the Ku Klux Klan, but also in the field of American cultural survival, and even more in Bush's foreign policy today.