![“[Obama's] election elicited a blowback response among whites that has grown into a challenge to everything he tries to do,” Abu-Jamal explained. “He has been bleeding political power since his election and in two cycles lost his majorities in both houses of Congress. The Republicans — the white nationalist party — is making his days harder and harder.” - Sputnik International](https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/101937/51/1019375112_0:426:3766:2084_600x0_80_0_0_ae4ea011c399d42083ce0eb49347cbf2.jpg "“[Obama's] election elicited a blowback response among whites that has grown into a challenge to everything he tries to do,” Abu-Jamal explained. “He has been bleeding political power since his election and in two cycles lost his majorities in both houses of Congress. The Republicans — the white nationalist party — is making his days harder and harder.”")
"Discrimination and even segregation on racial and ethnic base are still present in many countries, including those claiming to be democratic," Russian delegation said on Monday.
Russian delegation stressed that recent Nazi veterans' parade in Latvia, as well as neo-Nazi marches in Lithuania and Estonia, desecration of Soviet soldiers’ graves, situation in Ukraine, where Nazism is becoming the state’s ideology, demonstrate growth of radical extremist movements on the European continent and beyond.
"What happened in the beginning of March in Los Angeles — another shooting by the US police of an African American, unarmed and also mentally unhealthy, — indicates on a serious problem of racial discrimination in the United States,” statement said.
On March 1, Los Angeles police shot and killed a homeless man when, approached by officers, he engaged in what appears in a video posted online to be violent physical resistance.
On March 7, a police officer shot dead an unarmed 19-year-old African-American teenager in the US city of Madison, Wisconsin.
These incidents are the latest in a series of fatal casualties when US police have used what many are calling excessive force. Since the summer 2014, the country has seen a wave of protests calling for police accountability in light of the killing of two black men, Eric Garner and Michael Brown, by police in New York City and Ferguson, Missouri.
