The first person United Nation investigators looking into American racism should interview is Hunter Biden.
Why not start at the top?
And who better than the white privileged, wayward son of President Joe Biden to give them an in-depth view of racist behavior in contemporary America?
All the special “rapporteur” (a fancy French word for investigative reporter) of the UN Human Rights Council would have to do is read Hunter Biden’s laptop text messages to his lawyer.
It is there he throws around the “N- word” with abandon and refers to Asians as “yellow” people.
It is understandable if the UN’s rapporteurs are not already familiar with Hunter’s racist remarks.
That is because the left-leaning mainstream media — The New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, CNN, etc., suppressed them, as it has suppressed other negative and embarrassing stories about Hunter Biden’s drug-fueled behavior.
However, an enterprising rapporteur could dig up back copies of the London Daily Mail, which broke the story, or the New York Post which carried it. The Post’s office is only a cab ride away from UN headquarters.
After talking with Hunter, the rapporteur might want to interview the president. Biden, who has launched a campaign against white supremacy in the country, might be asked about his relationship with the late racist Sen. Richard Byrd of West Virginia.
Byrd was a white supremacist recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, a role he later renounced when he was aged. Biden bonded with Byrd in the Senate. He eulogized Byrd upon his death death in 2011. He said of Byrd, “He was a friend, he was a mentor, he was a guide.”
While it may live to regret it (or maybe not), the Biden administration has asked the UN’s Human Rights Council to investigate racism and human rights abuses in America, as though it were North Korea or China.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken asked for the investigation in a tweet that read, “Responsible nations must not shrink from scrutiny of their human rights record. Rather, they should be transparent with the intent to grow and do better. That is why I’m announcing a formal invitation for @UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism to visit the U.S.”
Blinken made his remarks after it was announced that the U.S. would rejoin the council. Former President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the council just as he did with the Paris Climate Change Accord and the Iranian nuclear deal. Biden has re-engaged with all three.
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, upon the U.S. withdrawal from the 47-member council, called the body a “cesspool of political bias” against the U.S. Now a potential presidential candidate, Haley said that it was still “a cesspool.”
It is a given that the UN has a built-in anti-America, anti-Israel bent. Its council membership include such great democracies as China, Russia, Cuba and Venezuela.
It has, for instance, accused Israel of war crimes against the Palestinians while ignoring Palestinian atrocities against the Israelis.
And while it probes racism and human rights abuses in the U.S. it will continue to ignore human rights abuses against protesters in Venezuela, Russia, China and now Cuba.
China uses forced labor to make goods for U.S. companies and nobody cares.
Cuban protesters against the country’s authoritarian communist regime are shot, beaten, arrested and disappeared while China and Russia vote to investigate racism in the U.S.
You cannot make this stuff up. Things are so bad in Cuba (I have been there twice) that the return of the Mafia to Havana would be a positive development. The Mafia at least provided jobs in its casinos, hotels and nightclubs.
As Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who is of Cuban descent, put it, “Instead of asking the @UN to come here & tell us how ‘racist’ America is, why don’t you ask them to go to Cuba where an evil socialist regime storms into peoples homes, beats the crap out of them & then drags them away.”
The Biden administration knows the UN investigators will come up with a scathing report about racism in the U.S., no matter the reality.
A guaranteed critical report plays into Biden’s campaign to go after alleged white supremacists and conservatives while ignoring the rioting, burning and looting fostered by BLM, antifa and related anti-police movements of the left.
Not good, America.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
