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My Word: Doudou Diene Can Go Home Now

By John Gibson
Host, the “John Gibson Radio Show”

Two weeks ago when black South Africans rioted against job losses to illegal immigrants, burning and beating to death more than 20, the United Nations special reporter on racism and xenophobia announced he was “saddened” by the violence, especially because it was happening in a country which “has liberated itself by fighting institutional racism.”

In reporting the remarks of Mr. Doudou Diene of Senegal, who works for the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva, United Nations Radio failed to mention exactly where Mr. Diene was while expressing his “sadness.” In fact, he was not at his home office, nor in South Africa itself where the violence rages, but in the United States on a special mission to investigate racism in America.

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