Posted on 01/31/2016 8:08:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
During a recent visit to the United States, a United Nations (UN) working group has said that the US should consider giving long overdue reparations to descendants of slaves. The group also suggests the US government establish a national human rights commission, and publicly acknowledge that the Transatlantic Slave Trade was a crime against humanity.
The UN working group, called "Experts on People of African Descent," went on a fact-finding mission, which included meetings with African-Americans from multiple cities, including Baltimore, New York, and Chicago. Although they won't release their full report until September, each member read a statement to the press. The group stated that they are "extremely concerned about the human rights situation of African Americans." At a press conference, Chairwoman Mireille Fanon Mendes-France compared police brutality against the black community to Jim Crow-era racial violence:
"The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism, and racial inequality in the US remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent. Contemporary police killings and the trauma it creates are reminiscent of the racial terror lynchings in the past. Impunity for state violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency."
Some members expressed shock at the revelations they experienced during their trip.
"It's very easy in the United States for African Americans to be imprisoned, and that was very concerning," said South African Sabelo Gumedze, a member of the United Nations group.
The group also said they find the lack of a "national system to track killings committed by law enforcement officials" unacceptable. They also noted that despite initiatives to reduce mandatory minimum sentencing, the war on drugs has "led to mass incarceration that is compared to enslavement, due to exploitation and dehumanization of African-Americans." The group even spoke about the school to prison pipeline, and how it recreates the current situation that African-Americans are in.
The real question is whether the US government will even consider these recommendations. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have both opposed reparations in the past. Even democratic socialist Bernie Sanders called reparations "divisive," and instead suggests that the government improve infrastructure to create jobs in poor areas, and make public colleges and universities tuition-free.
If the current president, and every presidential candidate is in opposition to reparations, it's unlikely we will see many politicians jump in and support this cause. The same UN group also visited the US in 2010, and came to similar conclusions.
The group will release their final findings this September in Geneva, Switzerland to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
The world has gone crazy! I’m 70 and won’t be here much longer to put up with this bull shit!
Careful - as the alien bug said to Edgar in Men In Black, “Your proposal is acceptable.”
This has gotten to the level of vehemently ignoring history; the British brought them here, and their own brethren sold them to the British: African slave owners and muslims.
U.N. doing Obama’s dirty work again.
Attempts at politically motivated theft do not have to be truthful. Case in point - climate change.
FUUN...The USELESS NATIONS should disband or move...John Birchers are correct...WE NEED TO GET OUT OF THE AN (AntiAmerica Nations).
Time to express our support for the United Nazis by tossing them out of USA. Let them go hold their BS anti- American camp meetings in Iran. Obama’s giving Iran plenty of $$$ they can divert just a tiny bit from weapons and terrorist attacks to pitch a UN tent there.
I was thinking North Korea...
... Ya .... Great idea .... Right after the UN demands reparations for the Jews.
Obama sed I ‘sposed to git my preparations....
If Zer0 became U.N. Secretary General, he would mandate reparations in the first month in office. His homies need some capitalization of their recreational pharmaceutical enterprises. An American society up to their eyeballs in pharmaceuticals is a weak America.
It’s way past time for the UN to be moved to another country.
I’ll send them a bill for my husband’s ancestor who died at Andersonville.
Such a silly question. Of course it will. It wouldn’t be fair otherwise.
Bwahhhhhhhhhhh. Sorry I couldn’t go on and keep a straight face.
Give it to them. Then end ALL welfare for blacks FOREVER.
Black slaves were the cause of the U.S. Civil War which resulted in over 600,000 deaths of (almost all Whites).
So Blacks (being descendants) need pay White descendants millions of dollars of reparations (plus for war related damages to the Southern State economies) per White descendant, plus damages to the Southern way of life, etc, etc.
Thank you for your input.
You’re welcome.
STOP FUNDING THE UN, IT IS AN ANTI-AMERICAN ORGANIZATION!
600,000 dead Union soldiers....from battle and disease in the Civil War....isn’t enough?
Trillions of dollars spent from Lyndon Johnson’s so-called Great Society to the present day is not enough?
EBT cards, welfare, crazy checks, section 8 housing, Affirmative Action....none of that is enough?
Pack the descendants of slaves up and put them on ships headed back to Ebola land.
As for the UN, I hope their headquarters in New York is leveled some day in the near future. What a waste of prime Manhattan real estate.
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