Racial Poverty Gaps in U.S. Amount to Human Rights Violation

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Published on Wednesday, November 30, 2005 by OneWorld.net

Racial Poverty Gaps in U.S. Amount to Human Rights Violation, Says U.N. Expert

by Haider Rizvi

UNITED NATIONS - Despite enormous wealth and various federal and social welfare schemes at work, the United States is failing to help millions of its people trying to get out of poverty, according to an independent United Nations rights expert.

"Resource constraints have limited the reach of the assistance programs and social discrimination has aggravated the problems in many situations resulting in poverty clearly seen as a violation of human rights," Dr. Arjun Sengupta declared after visiting the United States last month.

"If the United States government designed and implemented the policies according to human rights standards much of the problem of poverty could be resolved," he added.

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"The case of the United States was particularly interesting as it presented an apparent paradox: as the wealthiest country on Earth, with higher per capita income levels than any other country, the United States has also had one of the highest incidences of poverty among the rich industrialized nations," Dr. Sengupta said.

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Shameful.

DC has an infant mortality rate among Black babies higher than some third world countries.

Those who claim insideous genocide against Blacks are not just mad tin foil hatters.

Most people in the reality-based community have always known that America's claim to being a first-world nation was dubious at best, not when there are communities in the U.S. that have infant mortality rates that compare to countries like Afghanistan and Mali.

those based in that reality themselves.