The United States has issued blistering reports on China’s Human Rights Violations. They have reported the internment of a million Uyghur that are mostly Muslim. I do think that China has a terrible track record when it comes to Human Rights. I am no expert but I do read and have formed opinions over the years from what I have read and I think that is apparent in all Communistic and Fascist governments. They want to assimilate everyone into the collective as they would say in Star Trek. The Soviet Union and now Russia has a terrible record when it comes to Human Rights. In my opinion the word freedom has no meaning for the average citizen of any Communistic or Fascist type government. China is now telling the United States government that the pot is calling the kettle back. They are pointing out to the world that the United States has many Human Rights violations and that before they start throwing stones at other people they should look at their own back yard and they may have a point.

If you look at the prison population in the United States you will see that we have the highest rate of incarcerations per capita in the world. As of May 2021 there were 639 per 100,000 people in prison in the United States. China has 121 per 100,000 and Russia has 475 per 100,000. From the numbers we look like China has a point but prison numbers to me do not really tell the entire story of human rights but they do tell part of the story. I am not going to jump on the China bandwagon and say that they are better than us when it comes to Human Rights because they aren’t. What I will say is that we have not been as good about Human Rights as we like to make ourselves out to be.

Throughout our history we have had many violations of Human Rights and some just as severe as any country in the world. They problem here is that our education system does not teach about our own sins. We pretty much wiped out the indigenous people in North America. If we didn’t kill them outright with violence and disease we put we them on reservations. Reservations just may be a nice way to say internment camps. When I was in school we didn’t study any of that. Our Western Expansion was always glorified in the history books and by Hollywood. Our Manifest Destiny was to expand from coast to coast. Millions died for that Manifest Destiny but history really does not talk about that very much.

There is a common theme here and the word is white. White settler’s westward expansion. White slave owners. White settlers protecting themselves from the “savage Indians”. Our history is one of racism but it is not taught that way. Much of our nation was built on the backs of slaves including a lot of our Capitol in Washington D.C. Just try and teach about slavery and racism just across the river from our Capitol in Virginia and you will get fired from teaching. Our Civil War was not fought over States rights as many would like you to believe. It was fought over States rights to own slaves.  In the United States we hide our sins and punish the people that bring them up.

Mitch McConnell says that there is no room for White Supremacy in the Republican Party but much of their party is based on White Supremacy. I am not saying that every Republican is a White Supremists but since Reagan the Republican Party has walked with White Supremists. KKK members do not vote for Democrats they vote for Republicans. I have never heard a Republican tell White Supremists don’t vote for me. I have heard them say that they have to vote for someone so it might as well be me. If a White Supremists supports one party and not the other it is because the message of that party appeals to the White Supremists but Republicans don’t care that their message is one of suppression.

China is also very quick to point voter suppression in the United States. Gerrymandering is just a form of voter suppression meant to silent voices. It is also just another form of racism. Voter suppression and racism has always gone hand in hand. History supports that conclusion. Our country is based on choice. Our main choice is who will govern and having the choice to change that every election. Voter suppression takes that choice away and promotes minority rule. We have criticized the rest of the world about minority rule like South Africa while actually promoting it at home.

China is very quick to point out all the mass shootings and gun violence in the United States. Gun violence is growing every year in this country and the more violent we get the more guns hit the streets. More guns will only mean more violence. It is just a viscous cycle that continues to repeat. Police shooting deaths are on the rise. I am not saying that every police shooting is unjustified but I will say that 15 percent of those killed were unarmed and at least 14 percent struggled with mental illness. I will also add that our police are not judge and jury. We have a court system for that and every death we must evaluate honestly whether a person civil rights were violated because everyone has the right to a trial. Judge Schroeder in Kenosha Wisconsin during the Rittenhouse trial stated that the people that Rittenhouse killed could not be called victims. What he really did was declare 2 people guilty of a crime without a trial and without a chance to defend themselves. That is a very bad look for our judicial system.

People that live in glass houses should not throw stones. We throw a lot of stones and shouldn’t be surprised when people throw them back at us. We have the makings of being a great nation but when we abandon the principles that are there in our Constitution we are not the beacon of freedom for the rest of the world to follow. I have written many times that freedom is just a hollow word in America as long as you are suppressing women and minorities. Instead of suppressing our history we should be embracing it and learning from it.