“As we feared the Administration’s decision to boycott the Durban Review has sent shock waves around the globe,” said Nicole Lee, Executive Director of TransAfrica Forum. “To date eight countries have announced they are pulling out of the Durban process, many based on the US decision.”
Dear friends,
"Shocking!!!" is an understatement! President Obama's administration chose to boycott the Durban Review of the World Conference on Racism. If you recall, less than two weeks after the United States and Israel pulled out of the aforementioned conference in 2001, a series of airplane attacks occurred - now known as 9/11.
While these attacks may have happened anyway, it seems, at least to me, that the catalyst was the abandonment of the World Conference on Racism about which I have just spoken. Will the latest move bring another attack? Who knows? One thing is for sure: The direction that the current administration is taking betrays all of the campaign rhetoric that caused so many people to support Barack Obama. What will happen next? On the link below, perhaps, we can now understand why Dr. King insisted "Why We Can't Wait".
Cheers!
G. Djata Bumpus
http://transafricaforum.org/media-center/news-releases/taf-disappointed-obama-admin-failure-attend-durban-review
Monday, August 1, 2011
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