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.
Government lawyers should make the case that the Democrat Party should be paying the reparations.
Precisely. Go get your money from the guys who are slave trading right now,.............the muslims.
The Europeans brought the slave trade to the Americas!
As soon as Germany gives reparations to the Jews, China to those it killed/oppressed (same w/Russia) and those countries who supplied the slaves give reparations to all....
“No reparations without repatriation!”
1827 in NY? Sheesh, NJ didn’t free their slaves until 1846...
Frederick Douglas noted that for all of their airs of moral superiority over Southerners, Northerners had no intention of treating freed blacks as “equal”.
You must make a tshirt - you’d make a million dollars on this. Very funny, well said.
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