| Man Still Identified By UN
As Staff Questions Guterres and Dujarric on
Race Then Waffles
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
June 7 – The
United Nations in the time of
Antonio Guterres has devolved
not only into corruption
and censorship,
but also racism.
Inner City
Press has published
Guterres memo to UN staff to
not join the George Floyd
protests, here, and noted that
his Spokesperson Stephane
Dujarric's "press briefings,"
as controlled by UN Global
Communicator Melissa Fleming,
have no African journalists,
no questions about South Sudan
or DRC or Cameroon, which
killed journalist Samual
Wazizi. There was Fleming's
precessor stealing
member states' money meant for
Swahili broadcasting, and
recent colonial
"LOOTING IN MIDTOWN: MY
ACCOUNT."
Inner City
Press noted and partially
republished this analysis from
Kasirim Nwuke, here,
still identified on the UN's /
UNECA's website as staff, but
now apparently concerned with
the retaliation Guterres is so
well known for, see below: "I
expected the United Nations
through the Secretary-General
to join in condemning the
killing of Mr. Floyd and the
racism that feeds such
actions. But, for days, the
United Nations kept quiet.
Three days ago the
Secretary-General announced on
Twitter, “I am heartbroken to
see violence on the streets in
our host country and our host
city of New York. Grievances
must be heard, but should be
expressed peacefully - and
authorities must show
restraint in responding to
demonstrations.” And he added,
as if an afterthought, “Racism
is an abhorrence that we must
all reject.” As if that
was not enough, his Chief
spokesperson, Stéphane
Dujarric, elaborating on the
Secretary-General’s tweet to
reporters, for some reason
decided that this was an
opportunity for him to make a
business case for diversity.
“The situation we're seeing
today we've seen in different
parts of the world before,
diversity is a richness and
not a threat, but the success
of diverse societies in any
country requires a massive
investment in social cohesion,
reducing inequalities,
addressing possible areas of
discrimination, strengthening
social protection, [and]
providing opportunities for
all. These efforts, these
investments need to mobilize
national governments…local
authorities, the private
sector, civil society,
faith-based
organizations…society as a
whole”. This was a model
illustration of virtue
signaling, bereft of
substance, indicative of an
underlying perfidy and
insensitivity to matters of
race and racism. The issue is
not about “diversity possible
areas of discrimination …It is
about the dehumanizing
injustice that black people
suffer, it is about the open
and festering sore of
unbridled racism. I am stunned
that the SG’s Chief spokesman
can be so insensitive. With
this response, the United
Nations failed its African
American staff members, it
failed its staff members who
are of African descent from
other parts of the world; it
failed its African staff
members, it failed all its
staff members who consider
themselves minorities and
failed its non-minority staff
members who abhor
racism. The United
Nations can do better."
Yes - by
firing Dujarric, who lied for
years about the UN killing
Haitians by bringing cholera
and otherwise, and impeaching
/ denying any second term to
Guterres. In the interim,
their censorship and exclusion
of African issues and
questions must be ended,
immediately. Watch this site.
Letter to the
editor, while Kasirim is still
listed right on UNECA's website
as "Mr. Kasirim Nwuke Chief,
New Technologies and
Innovation Section Special
Initiatives Division."
"My attention has
been drawn to your story with
the above caption and to this
excerpt from my article
published on my LinkedIn page.
While I appreciate the
coverage you have given to my
essay, I am afraid that you
have misrepresented me and I
would like to request
corrections and retractions be
made immediately. The manner
you have reported the story
presents real risks to
me. First, I am NO
LONGER a United Nations Staff
member. I left the
Organization (UNECA) last
October on early retirement.
Were I still a staff member, I
would be bound by the rules of
the Organization as they
relate to engagement with the
press and would certainly have
been faithful and obedient to
them. Please correct
your story to state
emphatically that I Kasirim
NWUKE is not a UN Staff
member. Second, I did
not call the SG or anyone
racist. The excerpt from my
essay that you quoted at
length does not show anywhere
where I called the SG racist.
Please correct and retract
that. The essay is on LinkedIn
and has been viewed by about
3000 persons. I
would be very grateful if you
would be kind to make the
corrections/retractions as
soon as possible. I am now a
private citizen. I live
in the USA. I respect the
press and media. I hope that
this matter will be resolved
amicably by your making the
necessary corrections. Should
you refuse to do that, you
will force me to explore other
options as permitted by law."
This is
sad - a threat of censoring
lawsuit for publishing things
that are online: an article,
and a bio on UN website. While
Inner City Press was not
required to do it, publishing
the letter to the editor in
full would make any litigation
a frivolous SLAPP suit subject
to sanctions. This is telling
- and reflecting of the
retaliation and rot of today's
UN. Watch this site.
Is it that
UNECA will update its website?
While the
UN and Guterres use Africa to
raise most of their money
(while providing no
accountability to those raped
in Central African Republic,
and given COVID-19 in South
Sudan by UN busses with
no
social distancing),
there has not been a single
African journalist on any of
the virtual noon briefing held
by Guterres' spokesman
Stephane Dujarric.
Nearly all
of those questioning Dujarric
in his $10 million apartment
on East 86th Street in
Manhattan are themselves in
expensive apartments.
There is
Reuters retiree Evelyn
Leopold, and CBS News blowhard
Pam Falk. There is a new guy
from Deutsch Presse Agentur.
Off-screen in a Brooklyn
Heights townhouse and
apparently on
the run is Margaret
Besheer of Voice of America.
Also off-screen in an
expensive part of Brooklyn is
FP's Colum Lynch, silent on
censorship but most recently
over-estimating China's
monetary contributions to the
UN by a power of 100, here.
Sure,
there are a few foreign
correspondents (and part time
adjunct professors) from the
Middle East.
But
no Africans. And, relatedly,
no questions about Africa,
despite outrages like the
UNMISS no social distancing
bus in South Sudan, and
Guterres' covering up for
Cameroon's disappeared
octogenarian president Paul
Biya.
At the IMF
virtual briefing on April 15,
transcript here,
there were questions taken
from journalists in Ghana, and
Inner City Press' questions
taken by name on Cote d'Ivoire
and Zambia, on which Dujarric
not only didn't answer the
question Inner City Press
submitted in three format, but
blocked Inner City Press on
Twitter and on WhatsApp
through which he said he took
questions. The overall
blocking, and exclusion of
these questions, is
perpetuated by Melissa
Fleming, also broadcasting
from a huge apartment.
Guterres' UN is racist, a
censor, and a fraud. It should
be defunded, like and beyond
WHO. Watch this site.
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