ABSTRACT
To accomplish the goals and objectives, the member states of the United Nations agreed upon a specific and well-defined Program for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination. The overwhelming majority of governments represented in the United Nations immediately set the tone and the standard for this program of action by adopting at the end of 1973 the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid. Among most members of the international community, of course, the attitude of the United States toward the Decade for Action always caused confusion and encouraged considerable skepticism. Time and time again throughout the politics and diplomacy of racial discrimination, the overwhelming majority of the international community firmly believed that domination in colonialism abroad and segregation in policy at home were but two sides of the same coin of power and prejudice.
