American Dream a nightmare for many non-whites

Editor's note: China Radio International recently published a commentary on its website exposing the hypocrisy of US government's criticism of the human rights situation in other countries. Excerpts below:

The United States has long used human rights as a means of putting pressure on other countries. Whenever it is unhappy with some country, it will publish a human rights report of that country.

However, it should reflect on its own human rights situation before criticizing other countries. For many nonwhite Americans, the "American Dream" is actually an "American nightmare" as white supremacy and incitement to hatred have become so rampant in the country.

Data from Mapping Police Violence show that there are hundreds of police shootings of African-Americans in the US each year, many fatal.

In international politics, US politicians turn a blind eye to their own country's bad human rights record, while issuing irresponsible comments about human rights in other countries. Recently they even attacked China's policies in the Xinjiang Uygur and Tibet autonomous regions, accusing China of restricting religious freedom.

Are US politicians sure that they are not blaming themselves? Their words are like jokes that aren't funny.

How can US politicians blame other countries? They should look at their own problems first.

The US has widening social gaps, worsening security conditions, worse gender inequality and racial discrimination.

It is time the US cured its own diseases first.

For all its self-promotion that it is a defender of human rights, the US is unable, or unwilling, to address the issue of racial discrimination.

Until it can talk of its own human rights situation with a clear conscience, it is in no position to criticize other countries.