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This was never going to be an easy conference," said Mary Robinson, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as she spoke in Durban last week at the opening session of the U.N. Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. That was an understatement. The conference was a disgrace. It was a disgrace in conception--in the very idea that a few days of talk could lead to any useful action directed against a scourge that diminishes the lives of millions--and it was a disgrace in execution. The only good thing that might conceivably come...
...have all the professionalism of a Wayne's World guitar riff. But it's not every love song that features verses in which a man assures his beloved that "the color of our skin" will become "our uniform of war"--or every rock group whose name is short for Racial Holy...
...gone and Gustafo's gone, and there's only Pete and this kid from Australia named Leigh-something. At least boring is just boring, but I think this kid is bad news. He gets into a fight early on, and I swear he called another guy names - like racial names. First he said he didn't do it, when of course everyone heard him do it, and then he said that's just the way we are in Australia, which of course is worse. He ended up staying the longest of the boys, didn't seem to mind that...
...SOUTH AFRICA Politics Clouds a Conference on Racism A meeting designed to promote racial tolerance was in danger of achieving the opposite as protests over the Middle East overshadowed early proceedings. The U.N. World Conference Against Racism drew 6,000 delegates from 130 countries to Durban, but the U.S. agreed to attend only after a declaration equating Zionism with racism was dropped. Issues of slavery and India's caste system also promised lively debate, but U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan warned that failure to agree on a plan of action would "give comfort to the worst elements of society...
...Mugabe would welcome an exodus of whites as justification for his platform to "give Africa back to the Africans" and command the majority rural vote he needs in the presidential election due by next April. Urban dwellers are largely fed up with Mugabe, so the multi-racial opposition Movement for Democratic Change may do well in the cities. But considering what Mugabe's mobs can do in rural areas like Chinhoyi, the 77-year-old President may already have his re-election in the bag. He has dismissed warnings of diplomatic sanctions from Washington as "racist threats," ignored advice from...