National Pulse reported on May 6 that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison (D) said he favors an international tribunal investigating the U.S. justice system to determine whether it, in fact, is systematically racist.
On last Tuesday’s broadcast of Microsoft-NBC’s “The ReidOut,” Ellison, a former Democratic vice chairman, said, “If the United States has nothing to hide, it shouldn’t have to worry about what the international community might find.”
Talking with Ellison, The ReidOut host Joy Reid said, “The International Criminal Court (ICC) is looking at the U.S. criminal justice system and the treatment of African-Americans by the justice system and saying that this may be a crime against humanity, including, among other things, severe deprivation of personal liberty, persecution and inhumane acts issues. Do you agree with such an investigation?”
Ellison answered in the affirmative, stating that the “international community” has forced the United States to practice more “racial justice” in the past. During the Cold War, the United States tried to tell the rest of the world and the emerging decolonized world to join the democratic camp represented by the United States. Yet these countries pointed out the racial problems within the United States and contributed to the advancement of civil rights in the United States.
Ellison says such internationally driven change can only improve the United States. He believes that “the U.S. criminal justice system is wise to open itself up.”
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