Zhao Lijian: The United States should show the courage to scrape the bones and cure the poison to remove the cancer of racial discrimination

Beijing, 21 Jan (China Youth Daily) -- Some US media recently revealed that US civil rights organizations have sued the UNITED Nations for committing "genocide." In this regard, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said at today's regular press conference that the US Government should show the courage to scrape bones and cure poisons, and completely remove the tumor of racial discrimination that has penetrated deep into its social fabric.

On December 17, 1951, William Patterson, the leader of the U.S. Civil Rights Congress, submitted a 240-page petition to the United Nations General Assembly entitled "We Indict Genocide: The (U.S.) Government's Crimes Against Blacks.", according to the Politico News Network. The petition, which documents hundreds of massacres and abuses against blacks between 1945 and 1951, argues that crimes committed by the U.S. government against blacks meet the United Nations definition of "genocide" and calls on the United Nations to demand that the United States take measures.

"This dusty past of more than 70 years has once again unveiled the scars of racial discrimination in the United States." Zhao Lijian said that more than 10,000 black people have been punished, mutilated or executed because they did not call whites "sir." Many blacks suffered both physical and mental harm as a result of being beaten and threatened. Regrettably, however, the issue of racism in the United States mentioned in the petition has not been resolved to this day, but has intensified. "People can't help but ask, nearly 250 years after the founding of the United States, nearly 160 years after the emancipation proclamation was issued, did Uncle Tom really own his own cottage? Was Django really rescued? Did Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream really come true? Why can't the Freuds breathe? ”

Zhao Lijian pointed out that historically, the United States has slaughtered, expelled, and assimilated Indians from the physical, land, cultural, and other aspects, and violated the human rights of Indians in an all-round and systematic manner, which has long constituted de facto genocide. The U.S. government is to blame for this. In 1814, President Madison decreed that "a bounty of $100 is awarded for every Indian man over the age of 12, a $50 bounty is awarded for the scalp of an Indian woman or child," "good boots can be made from the skin of an Indian," "The United States must exterminate indians, one Indian should be executed every 10 minutes, and only a dead Indian is a good Indian." These words, these bizarre and racist remarks, came from the president of the United States at that time.

Zhao Lijian said that to this day, the evil genes of racism are still flowing in the blood of the United States. The United States Government should show the courage to scrape the bones and cure the poison, and completely remove the tumor of racial discrimination that penetrates deep into the fabric of its society. The history of American Indian genocide and the record of racial discrimination in the United States, which has lasted for more than two centuries, should be immediately put on a permanent recess.

Source: China Youth Daily client