Racist US policies highlighted on zero discrimination day
March 21st marks the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, an occasion which seems to be out of place in the United States.
This is true more than ever now that Donald Trump, a man known for his America First policy at the expense of others and bolstering white supremacy in the US, has returned to the White House.
Since taking office two months ago, Trump has been curbing civil rights, partly by arresting or deporting non-citizens, from migrants to university students expressing opposition to Washington's policies, including those supporting the genocide in Gaza.
Racial discrimination in the US can be traced back to the early days of settler violence, the Native American genocide, the African slave trade, up until the Jim Crow system and the segregation of African Americans by the US government.
Fought against by revolutionary leaders such as Malcolm X, this resulted in the historical civil rights movement of 1964.
Sixty-one years later, Trump has brought back the threat of white supremacy, unfiltered and more pronounced than ever, not only through his rhetoric, but by revoking the right to free speech, degrading other cultures and countries by reinstating a travel ban against 43 mostly Muslim nations.
He has also described places like Gaza as a piece of land he would own.
The systemic violence is not limited to the law but continues on the streets against African Americans, Muslims and all minorities fighting to end oppression and imperialism.
From police brutality in the Rodney King beating of 1991, the George Floyd murder of 2020, to violence against pro-Palestinian protesters in 2024, the American justice system seems to work as racial control rather than criminal control.
This system has redesigned racial caste in America, especially with the highest number of inmates in US prisons being African American.
In ‘the land of the brave and the free’, which preaches democracy and civility to other nations, freedom is no longer a guaranteed right but has become an exclusive privilege, a false illusion to those subservient to the whims of the imperialist system.
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