Ta-Nehisi Coates on the unfair expectation that one black president could undo inequality
In “We Were Eight Years in Power,” Ta-Nehisi Coates calls President Trump the “first white president” for the ways Trump has made the racial identity of former President Obama so central...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: what's been called a text book case of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. That is how the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights describes what has befallen the Rohingya ethnic minority. In a new report, the U.N. agency said government forces and Buddhist extremists have executed -- quote -- "a well-organized, coordinated and systematic campaign of human rights violations" against the Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine State. An estimated 520,000 have fled their homes for neighboring Bangladesh. Myanmar's de facto leader, the Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, called for national unity today and said she had created a committee that will oversee all international and local assistance. We turn now to ...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: what's been called a text book case of ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. That is how the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights describes what has befallen the Rohingya ethnic minority. In a new report, the U.N. agency said government forces and Buddhist extremists have executed -- quote -- "a well-organized, coordinated and systematic campaign of human rights violations" against the Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar's Rakhine State. An estimated 520,000 have fled their homes for neighboring Bangladesh. Myanmar's de facto leader, the Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, called for national unity today and said she had created a committee that will oversee all international and local assistance. We turn now to ...
