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Posted on 09/05/2001 5:49:50 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen

Most United Nations Conferences in recent years come up with documents that most Americans would not agree with, if they knew what was in them. One of the great plus features of the chaotic United Nations World Conference Against Racism now taking place in Durban, South Africa is that some of the issues are actually being publicized. Even the Washington Post reports:

"Over the last two days, the atmosphere here has worsened, with Israel and numerous Arab governments giving harsh, defiant speeches on the conference floor. At a parallel nongovernmental forum, meanwhile, a final statement Saturday condemned Israel as a genocidal, 'apartheid' state, a pointed reference to the former separatist, white-ruled policies of South Africa.

"'It was a document dripping with venom,' Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA) said."

And, just in case some people didn't get it, on Tuesday morning a Palestinian suicide bomber tried to blow up a restaurant full of Jews in downtown Jerusalem.

Not one single mention has been made of the terrorist bombings taking place in Israel by Palestinians. That's not considered racism. However, the fact of the matter is the Palestinians have been trying to get rid of the Jews in their midst every since the United Nations partitioned Palestine in 1947, giving a portion to the Jews and the rest to Jordan.

The full name of the conference taking place in Durban is: "World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia (fear of strangers) and Related Intolerance and was organized by representatives from: Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Tunisia, China, India, Iraq, Pakistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovakia, Barbados, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Belgium, Canada, Norway and Sweden.

Now, I ask you, how many of those countries have ANY experience in running a multi-ethnic nation like the United States of America peacefully? We have had one Civil War in the last 225 years. How many civil wars have the nations on the committee had in the last 225 years and how many of them are multi-ethnic? Croatia, for example, in the last five years has killed or driven out most of its Serb population. Iraq once had a population of Jews. There are none there today. They've had one war after another, internally and with neighbors. Even though 97% of its population are Muslim, they still don't allow 15% Kurdish population ANY freedom. China is populated by Chinese, except for those territories they have over-run in recent years, like Tibet, in order to find land to colonize. Tunisia is 98% Arab and 98% Muslim. What would THEY know about how to run a multi-ethnic nation?

What has taken control of the Racism Conference in Durban are a group of basically racist nations, who have long since eliminated their minority populations. And, they are being backed up by a small group of American racists, and now want to extort money from America, a nation that is COMPOSED of minorities from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Europe.

A news article in the South African online Independent (http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?art_id=ct20010904124005859A345270) reports that an elderly Jewish doctor, who has a number of Christian and Muslim patients, was attacked and beaten by three men wearing checked Palestinian scarves. During the attack, in which he was beaten with a stick with blades attached, according to a patient who saw it, the thugs continuously scoffed at him, saying: "You Jews are the ones making the trouble in the Middle-East." He is in intensive care. This was only the most violent of three recent attacks on the doctor which came in the wake of the World Conference on Racism. This wasn't even mentioned in the U.S. media.

Black racists from America, protested loudly at the announcement of their nation's black Secretary of State ordering the American delegation home after their Palestinian friends pushed through their wording designed to create a rebirth of World anti-Semitism against the Jews. One banner carried by the group said: "Colin Powell Does Not Speak for Me."

Well, I would hope not. Colin Powell speaks for his country, not for a group of whining race-baiting agitators whose real goal is to get government money. Reparations would be paid by the taxpayers. The families of the majority of those taxpayers arrived in America long after slavery had been abolished and therefore neither they, nor their ancestors, had a thing to do with slavery. On the other hand, many of the blacks who would receive reparations are descendants of slave owners.

Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, speaking before the debate on reparation at the Racism Conference in Durban, (http://www.iol.co.za/html/frame_news.php?art_id=ct20010830095511294R252226) as a descendant of generations of slave-owning African kings, ridiculed demands for financial reparation for the slave trade, calling reparations "impossible and insulting:"

"If one can claim reparation for slavery, the slaves of my ancestors or their descendants can also claim money from me, because slavery has been practiced by all people in the world."

The fact of the matter is that, over the years, blacks and Muslims, the very groups who are making so much noise at the Racism conference, have a history of slave owning that continues to the present time. Anti-Slavery organizations, for example, have been purchasing and freeing Sudanese slaves in recent years and they claim that a deliberate policy on the part of the Muslim government in Khartoum to starve the Christian population of the South has killed a million and a half people.

But, of course, this sort of genocide is not even mentioned among the myriad ongoing atrocities being committed in Africa, by Africans, against Africans at the United Nations Conference on Racism taking place in Durban. The black and Muslim lobbies in Durban know full well that opposing atrocities in the Sudan or in Rwanda will not make any money for them.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People criticized Colin Powell for not attending the conference, saying that "United States should take a larger role in setting an example for the rest of the world by demonstrating its opposition to racism."

Colin Powell, as Secretary of State for the United States of America DID set an example for the rest of the world. In announcing that he had ordered our representatives at the World Conference of Racism to return home he said:

"Following discussions today by our team in Durban and others who are working for a successful conference, I am convinced that will not be possible. I know that you do not combat racism by conferences that produce declarations containing hateful language …"

His refreshing honesty and directness is lost of the whining adults in Durban, but perhaps some of the younger generation will listen up and follow his footsteps.

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