The "genocide" in the United States has added another hammer! He was accused of going to the United Nations more than 70 years ago

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On December 17, 1951, the famous American actor and singer Paul Robeson and members of the American Civil Rights Congress submitted a petition to the United Nations in New York called "We Accuse Genocide." (Source: Politico)

January 17 is Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Day. The black civil rights leader of the United States would be extremely disappointed if he saw the United States today: from the "breathless" Freud to the difference in skin color between life and death under the epidemic, systemic racial discrimination is still an "American disease" that cannot be cured. In the history of the black civil rights movement in the United States, the tide of resistance has risen again and again, and it has been annihilated again and again.

Recently, the AMERICAN political website Politico disclosed a dusty past of more than 70 years, exposing the genocide crimes committed by the United States against black people. On December 17, 1951, in Paris, France, William Patterson, the leader of the American Civil Rights Conference (CRC), submitted a petition to the United Nations General Assembly called "We Accuse Genocide, accusing the United States of genocide against blacks." On the same day, the famous American actor and singer Paul Robeson and members of the CRC submitted the same documents to the United Nations in New York.

The petition received nearly 100 signatures, including intellectuals, activists, victims' families and more. The nearly 240-page petition outlines what happened to black Americans, arguing that it fits the definition of genocide as defined in the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, adopted in 1948. The petition lists 152 murders, 344 violent crimes, and other human rights violations committed against blacks in the United States between 1945 and 1951. But, as Patterson puts it, "Despite the sheer volume of evidence, it is insignificant compared to reality." ”

Not to mention the numerous crimes of the United States in the slave trade, even after the abolition of slavery, the United States still implemented the Jim Crow Act and segregation for nearly 100 years, whether it is government agencies or media news, it is inciting racism. Blacks were deprived of the right to vote, deliberately impoverished, and poorly equipped. The proliferation of lynchings has caused a large number of black Americans to live in fear, and many innocent blacks have been beaten, tortured, hanged, or directly killed by the police without due process of law. Between 1945 and 1951, more than 10,000 blacks were killed by lynching or murder, and 30,000 blacks died each year from poor living conditions, according to We Complain About Genocide. The famous American writer Du Bois once warned: "The slaughter of blacks in the United States may be worse than the 6 million Jews in Germany." ”

In the view of Paterson and others, the United States has put on the legal "cloak" of genocide, leading to the absurdity and cruelty of "legal killings". In "We Complain About Genocide," Patterson wrote: "As a result of the continued, conscious, unified policies of all branches of government, black citizens of the United States are oppressed, segregated, discriminated against, and perpetually targeted for violence and suffer from genocide. ”

At that time, the crime of genocide seemed to be exclusive to the German Nazis, but the American people wanted to complain to the United Nations about the crime of genocide in the United States. Long before the petition was handed over to the United Nations, the U.S. government tried to intercept it. Paterson had previously sent 125 copies to Paris, which the U.S. government seized, but Paterson kept a hand and sent the other copies to his private home in small packages. At the United Nations General Assembly, the U.S. delegation lashed out at the petition, and eleanor Roosevelt, then head of the U.S. delegation, said in an interview that the petition was "ridiculous." Under the strong influence of the United States, the United Nations has never acted.

Shortly after Christmas, the U.S. Embassy in France contacted Patterson and demanded that he hand over his passport immediately, but Patterson had expected it and left for Hungary. In 1952, when Patterson returned to the United States, he found a group of customs and immigration officers waiting for him at the airport. They quickly confiscated Paterson's passport, searched his luggage, and took him into a small room for a stripping search. In addition to Patterson, Robertson was barred from leaving the country, and the CRC's leaders were harassed and persecuted by the FBI and other federal agencies for life.

In addition to attacking civil rights leaders, the U.S. government has also made a big move to divert attention and smear its ability to smear. Although the petition did not make a splash in the mainstream media in the United States, it attracted great attention in Europe, and the main French media carried a lot of coverage. However, the U.S. government found a "trick" that could turn things around, Patterson was a member of the Communist Party of the United States, and the petition was widely circulated in Eastern Europe, so under the clouds of the Cold War, the U.S. government shifted the discussion of genocide to an ideological battle.

At the request of the U.S. State Department, WHITE, then president of the NAACP, denounced the petition as a "despicable subversive conspiracy" concocted by "elite American Communists" and denied the veracity of the evidence in the petition. After the authenticity was confirmed, White changed his words: "The petition one-sidedly paints the most tragic picture of American democracy and racial problems." Eleanor Roosevelt said that the petition, inspired by the Communists, would have an "anti-American" effect if it were widely circulated among the dark people. Under the government's momentum, people became more and more convinced that "We Accuse Genocide" was actually an "anti-American" movement, and even people who sympathized with blacks did not want to get involved, fearing that speaking out for blacks would "hand a knife" to the Soviet Union.

In order to maintain its international image, the United States has also engaged in "public relations" in Europe. The United States sent several black representatives to France, Denmark and West Germany to give speeches defending U.S. racial policy and telling skeptical audiences that "the treatment of black Americans is really improving." In 1952, a black delegate even declared that within five years blacks would achieve full equality in the United States.

But then the world saw it, to borrow martin Luther King Jr. in his famous 1963 speech", "I Have a Dream": As far as citizens of color are concerned, the United States clearly did not live up to her promises. The United States did not fulfill this sacred obligation, but simply wrote a blank cheque to the Negro, stamped with the stamp of "insufficient funds" and returned.

But even as the U.S. government racked its brains to silence "We Accuse Genocide," the petition still made more people around the world aware of the tragic plight of black Americans. In 1970, We Complain About Genocide was republished; in 1996, the Black United Front of america submitted a petition to the United Nations directly invoking "We Complain About Genocide" as its slogan; in 2014, The Atlantic reported on the Chicago organization "We Complain About Genocide," which reported that in the city (Chicago) today, the ongoing epidemic of surveillance, attacks, and torture is as rampant as it was in 1951.

More than 70 years later, the cry of "we accuse genocide" is still echoing; nearly 60 years later, Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream of "all men are created equal" is far from being realized. What does such an American mean by "human rights"?

(Text/He Suosi)