Posted on 08/11/2017 2:19:51 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A 2016 report by a U.N.-affiliated group found that the United States's history of slavery and racial segregation warrants reparations for African Americans.
The United Nations' Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent concluded that “the legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the United States remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent.”
The group drew comparisons between lynchings of earlier decades and contemporary police killings. It recommended “urgent action” through “improving the reporting of violations involving the excessive use of force and extrajudicial killings by the police.”
This conclusion was reached after a fact-finding mission in Washington in January. The group's recommendations are non-binding, yet echo a similar call for reparations by a coalition of Caribbean nations, the main tenets of which the United States should adopt, according to the U.N. group.
“Past injustices and crimes against African Americans need to be addressed with reparatory justice,” the group declared in a statement. Reparations could take the form of “a formal apology, health initiatives, educational opportunities, an African knowledge programme, psychological rehabilitation, technology transfer and financial support, and debt cancellation.”
Awareness should also be raised through monuments, education, and memorials that are accompanied by “acts of reconciliation," the group detailed. This would work to counteract "the dangerous ideology of white supremacy [which] inhibits social cohesion amongst the United States population.”
How many divisions does the UN have? haha
Frederick Douglass didn’t consider Lincoln to be an abolitionist- read the speech Douglass gave at the 10th anniversary of AL’s death, it’s quite interesting. I can’t think of one abolitionist who did, he was regarded as a moderate by the Radical Republicans and the abolitionists whom they represented.
He went much farther than that. He said in his first Innaguaral address that he would support the Amendment then being discussed by Congress (the Corwin Amendment) which would have made slavery in the United States permanent and virtually irrevocable.
If the south had been allowed to leave the union it soon would have soon been under the English Queen (Victoria) as it did not have the industrial base to defend itself against the might of the British empire.
Why would the British Empire attack it?
US Panel decides UN owes reparations to Israel for years and years of bigoted condemnations.
This is a shockingly stupid and racist decision. Morally, it is exactly the same as lynching all black people because a girl says another girl was raped by someone with dark skin. Collective penalties for looking like an alleged criminal are an act of pure evil, whether from today’s “diverse” democrats or from the equally racist democrats of previous generations.
On the other hand, showing a limited slave trade from Africa to the Muslim countries is a crock. They were/are pushing slavery from 650AD to today. The South African army forced Ethiopia (Abyssinia) to outlaw slavery after WWII. Saudi Arabia did not outlaw slavery until 1962 (under pressure from the West). Muslim Northern Sudan enslaves Christians and animists from the South today.
The slave lines to the Muslim world, on that map, should be much thicker and pronounced. The reason there aren't that many black skinned people in those Arab countries is because they castrated the males, and killed the babies of the concubines.
Peter Hammond had some good talks on this subject.
We paid with our dead in the Civil War plus $22 trillion dollars in welfare since LBJ.
Nobody is stopping the Arabs, who sell blacks into slavery, from sending reparations.
Slavery is very misunderstood. People in general did not have universal rights nor did they have jobs until the last few centuries. Before that, which accounts for most of human history there was might makes right. And those who owned and controlled armies, land and wealth pretty much owned those around them. A serf in Russia had no rights and was responsible for work and taxes of harvest. They were not allowed to leave the land. And if they were not called slaves it was just a word.
Slaves were just part of society almost everywhere until the 1800’s at that time wages became popular and especially in England employees were preferred because you could pay an employee without housing them and you could fire them when they were no longer needed.
Its true that several countries forbade slaves earlier but even English colonies had slaves and England itself had several forms of indentured workers.
What most people don’t seem to realize is that Africa still has slaves. The concept of African slaves comes from Africans. They caught and sold slaves to the rest of the world. It was their best selling commodity. And Africans were getting rich on the proceeds.
Another fact left out of the history books were the dates where Northern States stopped allowing slaves. Yes there were slaves in the north. New York City was said to have a slave in 42% of the households. In fact New York State only made slavery illegal a few years before the civil war. In 1827 all slaves were freed in New York. But many were just sold down south, not actually freed.
The members of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent -- who wrote this judgement -- are:
Mr. Sabelo Gumedze
(Chairperson, South Africa)
Slavery in South Africa existed until the abolition of slavery in 1834.
Mr. Michal Balcerzak
(Poland)
Slavery in Poland existed on the territory of Kingdom of Poland during the times of the Piast dynasty in the Middle Ages.[1] It continued in various forms until late in the 14th century and was supplanted by the institution of serfdom, which has often been considered a form of modified slavery.
Ms. Mireille Fanon-Mendes France
(France)
In the history of the Atlantic slave trade, the French turned four times as many Africans into slaves as the Americans did, they used them far more brutally, and French slavers not only got a head-start on Americans, they continued the slave trade -- legally -- until 1830, long after the rest of Europe had given it up.
Mr. Ahmed Reid
(Jamaica)
By the end of the 18th century, there were more than 300,000 enslaved people in Jamaica.
Ricardo A. Sunga III
(Philippines)
Slavery had been present in the Philippine islands even before the archipelago was integrated into the Spanish Empire following the conquest.
So, in response to their calls for the U.S. to provide reparations...
YOU FIRST
Bkmk
Are they also asking the Arabs who, in the past, took hundreds of millions of African blacks into Islamic countries as slaves to pay reparations? No!!
How about the slavery practiced by Muslims today?
I think they just want to single out the country with the most money that they hate the most and want to see destroyed. If they really cared about slavery, they would be doing something about the slavery that exists today.
If I recall properly, the US accounted for about 3% of the total slave trade.
It is ironic and interesting that the places where the most slaves ended up are now desperately poor nations and the blacks who live in the US are much better off because their ancestors were sent here as opposed to the Caribbean or Brazil.
Time for the UN to leave the US. Go sit in Belgium and make pronouncements
IF Hellary Rotten had become President, I have no doubt she would have already implemented this. Thank God that didn’t happen.
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