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Howard University Professor Calls on U.N. Tribunal to Make Reparations to Black Americans
Breitbart ^ | 6/1/2023 | Elaine Mallon

Posted on 06/02/2023 10:10:48 AM PDT by Signalman

A Howard University law professor petitioned a United Nations (U.N.) tribunal to pay every black American $5 million in reparations — a proposal that would not need taxpayer approval.

On Friday, Justin Hansford, a leading scholar in critical race theory, addressed the U.N. tribunal in New York City during the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, the Daily Mail reported. The forum will last four days, ending on June 2. David Comissiong, representing Barbados, proposed it.

Hansford was joined by colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University in his plea that the United States government atone for the sins of slavery and Jim Crow laws.

A descendant of slaves from Georgia, Hansford said the reparations owed to each person should be determined on a case-by-case basis. He said that for some, $5 million might be too low.

Reparation task forces and commissions have been popping up all across the country following the death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020. This month, a task force in California forecasted that reparations to black Americans would cost the state $800 billion, more than twice the state’s budget. The city of San Francisco sanction reparations committee has recommended every black resident be allocated $5 million, as reported by the Associated Press (AP).

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To: cowboyusa

“..Boat, Cuba....”

I believe they should be paid “reparations” alright.
Pay them back with exactly what was originally taken from em: a loincloth, spear and a slow, one-way boat trip back to the motherland....never to return to the USA under the fear of immediate execution.


21 posted on 06/02/2023 10:47:23 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Alas Babylon!
Truth: Only a little more than 300,000 captives, or 4-6 percent, came to the United States. The majority of enslaved Africans went to Brazil, followed by the Caribbean.

You and I are in 100% agreement on the attitude, but I think the details are even more profound. IIRC, it's:

black slaves taken to colonial American states: 300K to 400K
white slaves from Europe taken to African states: 1.0 to 1.2 million (all of them kidnapped from Africans, not fellow Europeans)
black slaves taken to Latin America: 5.0 to 5.5 million
Jews killed in the Holocaust: 6 million
black slaves sold to Asia: 10 - 12 million.
babies aborted in the U.S. in the past half century: 67 million

Yet we're supposed to believe the black slaves in English speaking America was some kind of unprecedented atrocity that hasn't ever been eclipsed.

22 posted on 06/02/2023 10:48:12 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Signalman

Crazy ass “perfeser”. They didn’t do anything to deserve a 5 million dollar payday. Most haven’t done a day’s work in their lives.


23 posted on 06/02/2023 10:49:05 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (JaySix - The attack that shook the foundations of Commie Liberal "democrazy". -The Far Left "media".)
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To: Tell It Right
white slaves from Europe taken to African states: 1.0 to 1.2 million (all of them kidnapped from Africans, not fellow Europeans)

Did you really mean to write "from," and not "by?"

Regards,

24 posted on 06/02/2023 10:57:51 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek
Correct. I meant, kidnapped by Africans. For example, almost the entire town of Baltimore Ireland was captured by African pirates who did a sneak attack on the town and took their captives to sell in the slave market in Africa. This kind of thing happened a lot in Europe, especially in areas closer to Africa (i.e. the Mediterranean coast). In fact, some Americans were captured too, but only ones sailing on ships through the area (the Africans didn't sail across the ocean and attack American towns).

Some say it's a major reason that the north African Muslim nations are now white. The primary purpose of the white slave women was sex slavery. Perhaps before the European slave trade, the north Africans were much darker. According to one Muslim tradition, Muhammad himself said that blondes (Al-Asfar) make the best sex slaves.

25 posted on 06/02/2023 11:09:07 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: I want the USA back

Or the coal miners of WV and Kentucky for that matter.

Wonder what this racist fool thinks about the poor whites who mine the coal that is used to generate the electricity that he uses?


26 posted on 06/02/2023 11:14:03 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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To: Signalman

When pigs fly …..


27 posted on 06/02/2023 11:15:12 AM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Signalman

Inch, mile


28 posted on 06/02/2023 11:28:02 AM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: Tell It Right
A lot of Europeans were captured by white Muslim pirates and sold into slavery as well. I think the latest Turkish slave raid on Sardinia was 1816.

The Christian victory at Lepanto in 1571 freed something like 10,000 European Christians who were galley slaves in the Turkish fleet.

29 posted on 06/02/2023 11:38:02 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Signalman

Black Africans are disowning America. They have made it clear they are not capable and have no desire to assimilate.

There is a group of Afro Heritage citizens, the minority- minority that are in fact assimilated and greatly benefit our society. We must make an effort to insure the minority-minority grows


30 posted on 06/02/2023 11:41:21 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: Dilbert San Diego

A diagram of what’s going where and to whom would very quickly end up looking like the web of a nerve gassed black widow spider just before she expired.


31 posted on 06/02/2023 11:59:25 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: Signalman

I thought that college professors were supposed to be bright?


32 posted on 06/02/2023 12:00:31 PM PDT by eeriegeno (Checks and balances??? What checks and balances?)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Question: how white were the Turks before the centuries of white sex slaves perhaps lightening up the gene pool? It's possible they were as white then as they are now. But it's also possible they were darker (though probably not as dark as sub-Saharan Africans). I'm leaning toward them being pretty white since they are probably descendants of Japheth, but I don't know for sure. It's not like we had Polaroid cameras back then.

However, I'm pretty sure the Arabs (probably descendants of Shem) were darker than the mix of Arabs/whites in North Africa who did most of the slave trading of Europeans. And I think it's safe to say the north Africans were probably a lot darker then too (before centuries of white sex slaves lightened up the gene pool and before many captured whites freed themselves from slavery by "turning Turk" and joining the pirates). As dark as Ethiopians? Nope. But I wouldn't be surprised if the north Africans then could pass for black today. The truth is we don't know.

If I had to guess, I'd say the old artist drawings of the Barbary Wars like this one best depicts the color of the north Africans from before the Ottoman slave trade. Of course, if I'm right, both blacks and whites have to eat a little crow about historical figures. This would suggest that "black" Simon of Cyrene who carried Jesus' cross was probably not as black as many black Christians make him out to be (Cyrene is in modern day Libya, not Eretria or Ethiopia or Congo). It would also mean that many of our early church fathers in north Africa (i.e. St. Augustine of Hippo) was probably a bit darker than white modern day Algerians.


33 posted on 06/02/2023 12:17:55 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Signalman

From American tax payers?

The tribes in Africa and the Arabs were responsible for the slave trade.

Not me or my ancestors.

5.56mm


34 posted on 06/02/2023 12:21:55 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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To: Signalman
the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, the Daily Mail reported. The forum will last four days, ending on June 2.

Four days, ended today. Perhaps not so permanent then. They fail at the most simple things...

35 posted on 06/02/2023 12:22:51 PM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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To: Signalman

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36 posted on 06/02/2023 12:24:47 PM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Tell It Right
The Turks were originally in Central Asia--so white.

By the time you get to the 16th or 17th century, "Turk" has come to mean any Muslim, so a lot of people without any Turkish ancestry or even knowledge of the Turkish language.

37 posted on 06/02/2023 3:10:57 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Signalman

Maybe they remember the song about there not being any cure for the summertime blues—the singer says he’s going to take his problem to the United Nations.


38 posted on 06/02/2023 3:12:13 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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