Racial relations in the United States continued to deteriorate in 2016, according to a report on U.S. human rights released Thursday.
The report, titled "Human Rights Record of the United States in 2016" and published by China's State Council Information Office, says there were repeated incidents of African Americans being shot by white police.
Racial discrimination heavily influenced law enforcement and justice fields, the report says, noting that there were systematic gaps between minority races and white people in employment and income.
Minority people endured various discriminative treatments in schools and social lives. The USA Today website reported on July 14, 2016 that a poll found 52 percent of Americans believed racism against black people was an "extremely" or "very" serious problem, according to the report.
A total of 69 percent of respondents in a poll said race relations in the United States were generally bad. Six in ten Americans said race relations were growing worse, up from 38 percent a year ago, the report says.
A Washington Post website report on police shootings in 2015 found that black Americans were 2.5 times as likely to be shot and killed by police as white Americans. Unarmed black men were five times as likely to be shot and killed by police as unarmed white men.
Wage gap between blacks and whites was the worst in nearly four decades, according to the report.
The report goes on and says that Muslims suffer increasingly serious discrimination in the United States.
It notes that racial discrimination is strongly condemned by the United Nations. After conducting investigations across the United States from Jan. 9 to 29 of 2016, the UN Human Rights Council's Expert Group on People of African Descent expressed serious concerns about the police killings, the presence of police in schools, violence targeting the African American community with impunity, racial bias in the criminal justice system, and mass incarceration and the criminalization of poverty which disproportionately affects African Americans.
