I truly wonder why Western hypo-crats boycotted the UN Anti-Racism Conference?

Obama, what happened to, “if we disagree, I will listen.”? Ahmadinejad was articulate and used similar rhetoric to Obama expressing shared mutual respect and dignity for a global community.

Ahmadinejad addressed the UN audience with an account of the last 500 years of history. He spoke about the ignorance of past generations who turned to colonization, slavery and other mechanisms to gain power; this itself, he said, is racism.

Diplomats from the US and 30 other countries staged a walk-out from the conference in what they called an answer to the “racism against Israel”.

However, calling someone racist is not itself racist, it is criticizing with the aim of hearing a rebuttal not the sound of footsteps leaving the room.

From the images on television, 30 seemed to represent the amount of people who walked out but certainly more than one person was in attendance per country, as was seen by the remaining delegates. Representatives from Asia and Africa remained in their chairs and it was only really Western countries who walked out.

For years economic sanctions have hindered the ability of these remaining countries to catchup to Western counterparts and Ahmadinejad suggested this is fundamentally racist. He also called for an end to the veto powers held by the 6 Security Council members. This excess of power, he suggested, was the main barrier to equality within the international community.

The IMF and WTO have for decades handed out money to developing nations with extremely ridiculous conditions. Ahmadinejad suggested, what people have for years, the global economic system needs to be reformed and possibly completely overhauled. He also stated that “capitalism has come to a dead-end.”

The Western world can no longer dominate the world stage and they need to recognize this. This walk-out was classless, narrow, and the complete opposite to what democracy, liberty and the right to free speech is represented as by Western politicians.

We can talk about how Ahmadinejad is oppressive to his own people, however, unless we lead by example, leaders in other countries will never feel the necessity to follow suit.

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