A report on human rights situation in the United States issued on Thursday said that racial discrimination is a deep-rooted social illness in that country as blacks and other minor ethnic groups are living in the bottom of the American society.

The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2007, issued by the Information Office of China's State Council, exposed the deteriorating human rights situation in the United States, by quoting lots of government and media reports in the world's richest country.

A US Census Bureau statistics released in August 2007 disclosed that median income of black households was 31,969 US dollars in 2006, or 61 percent of that for non-Hispanic white households, while median income of Hispanic households was 72 percent of that for non-Hispanic white households, the report says.

The rates of blacks and Hispanics living in poverty and without health insurance are much higher than non-Hispanic whites. Poverty rate for blacks was 24.3 percent in 2006, 20.6 percent for Hispanics and for non-Hispanics, the rate was 8.2 percent.

Quoting a Washington Post report, the report says that 80.7 percent of the 3,269 HIV/AIDS cases identified between 2001 and 2006 were among blacks, and the possibility for blacks to be infected of HIV/AIDS was seven times higher than that of whites.

It goes on to say that ethnic minorities have been subject to racial discrimination in employment and workplace. In November 2007, the unemployment rate for black Americans was 8.4 percent, twice that of non-Hispanic whites (4.2 percent). The unemployment rate for Hispanics was 5.7 percent, according to a report by the US Department of Labor.