Joe Biden wants to take the opposite view of his predecessor Donald Trump on discrimination.
To do this, his government invited UN experts on July 14 to examine the United States' record in terms of racism against African Americans.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed the creation, by the United Nations Human Rights Council, of a group of experts to examine police violence against "people of African descent" committed in the world.
"Responsible nations should not try to avoid evaluating their human rights record, they should instead call on them with the intention of improving," he said in a statement.
Blinken calls on other states to do the same
The head of American diplomacy therefore invited to the United States two UN special rapporteurs, specialists in contemporary forms of racism and issues targeting minorities, and called on other member states to participate in "this effort to fight against racism, discrimination and xenophobia ”.
This stance contrasts sharply with the posture adopted by former Republican President Donald Trump and his allies in the face of the giant protests that shook the United States after the death, on May 25, 2020, of George Floyd.
Denying the existence of systemic racism in the United States, Donald Trump blamed the violence committed by the police on “bad apples” and refused any criticism of the country's history.
This posture remains the majority within his party.
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