The United States is quick to condemn other nations for human rights violations but are mysteriously silent about their own.
The U.S. retains presidency of the UN this month and called for a meeting today regarding “the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”. The US, a self-proclaimed “Christian nation” uses the UN as its mouthpiece to advance their own self-serving politicized agendas.
These Christians use the UN as their judge and jury. Today they accuse the DPRK of human rights violations, but they have also used this prybar against others, such as Sudan, Uganda, and Syria, to name a few.
Uganda – UN Condemns, Demands Repeal of Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Act
Syria – UN expert condemns ‘snatching’ of boys in SDF-run camps
And yet, UN workers themselves are found to be sex abusers and traffickers.
Kathryn Bolkovac, was a U.N. whistleblower who worked for the U.N.’s International Police Task Force in Bosnia. She discovered DynCorp, a defense contractor financed by the U.S. government was involved with a child sex trafficking ring, which was being covered up by the United Nations.
UN peacekeeping forces have also been accused of sexual assault and rape in Haiti.
These are incidents which have been brought to the light, and in the years since, UN peacekeepers have continued to be accused of sexual abuse the world over. Much like the Catholic priests, where there is one, you know there are many more. It seems to be a problem endemic to Christian culture.
Meanwhile, the Christian nation itself is guilty of human rights violations. Thousands are murdered, assaulted, raped, robbed and wrongfully detained. Verdicts and sentences are carried out without equity or due process. Criminals are set free, and victims are criminalized. Yet, our political preachers mingle at their prayer breakfasts, and stand in their pulpits, declaring one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all. Like their book, on which they swear an oath, to tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, it is all a lie.
For example, in the case of George Floyd, an African American who was beaten and murdered in the middle of the street when a police officer kneeled on his neck as he cried out, I can’t breathe. Where was his justice? He was not a model citizen, but even criminals deserve basic human rights.
Unfortunately, Christians have never cared about justice. Their history proves this. And don’t get me wrong, this does not make me an apologist, neither do I feel anyone deserves reparations for past wrongs. The past is done, but what we do for the present and future, matters.
Furthermore, hundreds, if not thousands of African American men have befallen the same fate as George Floyd over the decades. If we go even further back, we see how the African American people have been oppressed for centuries. They have been groomed by white men, ensuring they are poverty stricken, uneducated and confined by the mental chains of colonialism.
Roman Catholic Jesuit missionaries captured Africans like animals, chained and packed them into slaver ships with no allowance for basic humanity or dignity, then delivered them to their masters.
“In fact, the Church was the backbone of the slave trade,” the authors wrote. “In other words, most of the slave traders and slave ship captains were very ‘good’ Christians.”
-Brown, Stacy M. “The Major Role the Catholic Church Played in Slavery”, New York Amsterdam News, 18 Sept. 2018, amsterdamnews.com/news/2018/09/18/major-role-catholic-church-played-slavery/. Accessed 20 Aug. 2023.
“The largest slave trade in the history of the world was created by white Christian Europeans. Before it was over as many as 60 million Africans would be killed for the profit of white Christian imperialism. A key reason for the high death toll was the tidal wave of war and desolation that the slave trade unleashed into the heart of Africa. Huge numbers of people died being marched to the coasts of Africa from the interior as well as in an endless series of wars produced by the quest for new slaves. Millions more would die in concentration camps at both ends of the sea journey, and significant numbers would die due to the appalling conditions on the slave ships.“
DEATH TOLL from the SLAVE TRADE Worldfuturefund.org,2023,
http://www.worldfuturefund.org/Reports/Slavedeathtoll/slaverydeathtoll.html Accessed 17 Aug. 2023.
When Malcolm X rose to leadership of the African American community in the 1960’s, he was trying to unite his people and raise them out from under Christian imperialist oppression.
Malcolm X saw Christianity as a religion for white men, finely tuned to ensure eternal subjugation of the black race. He said,
“The greatest miracle Christianity has achieved in America is that the Black man in white Christian hands has not grown violent. It is a miracle that twenty-two million Black people have not risen up against their oppressors in which they would have been justified by all moral criteria and even by the democratic traditions.” – Malcolm X
Indeed, that was the very fear the Christians had, that the African Americans would rise up and confront their oppressors, therefore, Malcolm X was assassinated for daring to fight for the rights of his people, their human rights.
To resist and to defy oppression, is OUR ultimate human right, regardless of race and religion. The world is again desperately waiting for leaders who will step forward and unify us in this just cause.
(The article was published on evankwsky.wordpress.com on August 20, 2023 and has been reproduced here)
