China News Service, Beijing, April 14 (Xie Yanbing and Xing Chong) Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian hosted a regular press conference on the 14th.

  A reporter asked: We have noticed that the National Urban League released an annual series of reports on the situation of African Americans on the 12th.

It mentions that African-Americans' right to political participation is severely limited.

In 2021 alone, 20 states across the U.S. will redraw their congressional district maps, with the new district maps "disenfranchising African-Americans and other communities of color".

Meanwhile, multiple states have passed legislation to make it harder for African-Americans and other minority voters to vote.

What is China's comment?

  Zhao Lijian: I have also noticed the relevant report.

The report noted that African-Americans enjoy only "73.9 percent equal treatment of whites" and lag far behind whites in wealth, health, education, justice and political participation.

This once again exposed the long-standing problem of systemic racial discrimination in the United States, reflecting that racial discrimination has permeated all aspects of social life.

  Ideal is full, the reality is very skinny.

The United States has always advertised "openness" and "inclusiveness", advocating that everyone has the inalienable right to life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness, and that everyone can pursue and realize the "American Dream".

59 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a dream" speech. He said that the United States just wrote a bad check to black people, and the check was stamped with "insufficient funds" and then returned. .

More than half a century later, this situation remains the same, and African Americans are still struggling on the long road to equal rights with whites.

  The experience of African Americans is also a common problem faced by other minorities in the United States.

Under the shadow of systemic racial discrimination such as differential treatment and violent law enforcement, ethnic minorities have to live in unease, injustice and fear. Many of them are not waiting for the dream of the United States, but the broken dream of the United States, the soul of the United States. Break America.

  The U.S. government should earnestly face up to its own human rights issues, earnestly protect the equal and legal rights of ethnic minorities including African Americans, and turn the advertised "human rights" and "equality" into reality, so that all American people can see, touch, and feel.

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