US ‘at a critical juncture’ in fight against racism: Independent expert
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 18, 2023
She travelled across the US between 31 October and 14 November, from Detroit in Michigan to the Louisiana coast, also visiting Los Angeles, Atlanta and Washington DC.
Ashwini K.P., UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, xenophobia and related intolerance, said following her 14-day fact finding mission that mainstream America was now more aware of systemic racism following the large scale racial protests of 2020 and the positive response from the Biden-Harris administration “to improve racial equality”.
But she also expressed shock at the “mutually reinforcing manifestations of systemic racism” she . . .
