The United States is still a long way away from dealing with the systemic and institutionalised racial discrimination that plagues it on all levels, a group of United Nations human rights during an official visit to the USA said.
“Despite substantial changes since the end of the enforcement of Jim Crow [former racial segregation laws in the Southern United States] in the 1960’s and the fight for civil rights, ideology ensuring the domination of one group over another continues to negatively impact the civil, political, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of African Americans today,” stated the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (WGEPAD) in a recent report.
The WGEPAD issued its preliminary findings and recommendations at the end of its mission to the United States from 19-29 January. The visit was aimed at assessing the situation of African Americans and people of African descent in terms of racism, racial discrimination, afrophobia, xenophobia, and related intolerance.
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