We are members of a NGO committed to the eradication of the psychological torture and wasted human potential resulting from the barbaric, inhumane, and illegitimate, racist systems of human relationships. We are even more resolved to the development of a workable, vital, and living WCAR document; a document that reflects the legitimate concerns and human rights of hundreds of millions of people world-wide for improving the quality of their lives by removing the intolerable weight of racism, poverty, discrimination, and psychological torture. Racism in all its horrific forms is transmitted across generations and is manifested in individual behaviors, institutional norms and practices, and cultural values and patterns. Racism serves simultaneously both to rationalize the hierarchical domination of one racial or ethnic group over other group(s), and maintain psychological, social, and material advantages for the dominant group. Both active racism and passive acceptance of race-based privilege disrupt the mental health and psychological functioning of both victims, and perpetrators, of racial injustice. We strongly believe that respect for the inherent dignity and well-being of each member of the human family is the psychological foundation of freedom, human justice, and peace in the world. This important principle is recognized in the United Nations Charter (1945), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), and every subsequent human rights declaration and convention, including the International Convention on the Elimination off all Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965). Therefore, we urge the integration of psychological and positive mental health concerns into the framework of the WCAR as a necessary condition for the effective implementation of remedies, and corrective and preventive measures and strategies." "www.racism.org.za/_disc1/00000368.htm".
"The disadvantages of racism can be toward women because of the way they look.
