UN Expert finds U.S. struggling to achieve racial, social and economic equality
“[U]nderstanding racism means looking…at 400 years of slavery and post-civil war Jim Crow laws, which…’marginalized the African-American community to a life of misery, poverty and persecution.’”
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54582&Kw1=united+states&Kw2=human+rights&Kw3=#.WEcKkVyx9_k