A United Nations committee that is supposed to fight racism issued an "early warning" to the United States over "racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and salutes by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan[.]"  They are calling on President Trump to "unequivocally and unconditionally" reject discrimination. The Guardian: Such statements are usually issued by the United Nations committee on the elimination of racial discrimination (Cerd) over fears of ethnic or religious conflict. In the past decade, the only other countries issued with early warnings have been Burundi, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria. The United States has been warned under the procedure in the past when Cerd raised the issue of land rights conflicts with the Western Shoshone indigenous peoples in 2006. "We are alarmed by the racist demonstrations, with overtly racist slogans, chants and...(Read Full Post)