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UN Wants Canada To Apologize, Pay Reparations For Black Slavery
The Daily Caller ^ | 09/25/17 | David Krayden

Posted on 09/26/2017 4:37:54 AM PDT by Enlightened1

The United Nations Human Rights Council says Canada should apologize and pay reparations for slavery and other forms of “anti-black racism.” In a report released Monday, the U.N. advisory group stated: “History informs anti-black racism and racial stereotypes that are so deeply entrenched in institutions, policies and practices, that its institutional and systemic forms are either functionally normalized or rendered invisible, especially to the dominant group.”

The British empire had already banned slavery in 1834, and Canada had not become a self-governing dominion until 1867. Prior to its abolition, slavery was never widespread in British North America, although it was extensive in tropical colonies like Jamaica. When support for abolitionism grew in the northern U.S., Canada participated in the Underground Railway that moved escaped slaves out of Canada so that they could not be returned to their masters under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave Act.

Nonetheless, the UN says that contemporary Canadian racism “replicates the historical … conditions and effects of spatial segregation, economic disadvantage and social exclusion. It is important to underline that the experience of African Canadians is unique because of the particular history of anti-black racism in Canada,” suggesting that the government of Canada should “take concrete steps to preserve the history of enslavement and the political, social and economic contributions of African Canadians by establishing monuments in their honour.”

Another one of these concrete steps would be the addition of a new department of African-Canadian affairs to the federal government. The UN council recommends that it resemble the current federal department that serves “Indigenous Peoples.”

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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: canada; reparations; slavery; un
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To: a fool in paradise

Not to worry
They are lined up for climate change reparations under the Paris Accords
Since global warming causes slavery
Or something


21 posted on 09/26/2017 4:55:00 AM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Enlightened1

If they want Canada to pay reparations, then the UN should set a stellar example by paying back rent at 405 East 42nd Street, New York.

On second thought, let’s just kick them out and turn it into something useful like a big Walmart.


22 posted on 09/26/2017 4:57:40 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: Enlightened1
Is there no statute of limitation here?
A hundred years after every single perpetrator and victim has died, it should be enough.
Besides, slavery was legal then.
It happened before the formation of the UN so it's clearly out of their jurisdiction, legally as well as space and time.
Unlike the slavery that is going on today, on their watch.

23 posted on 09/26/2017 5:00:16 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Enlightened1
The United Nations Human Rights Council says Canada should apologize and pay reparations for slavery and other forms of “anti-black racism.”

The United Nations Human Rights Council is again pandering and asking for money from the "rich" nations. Do they do anything else other than ask or demand handouts with deeply flawed logic to justify their actions.

They want you and many others who have never had anything to do with anti-black racism, to pay.

Are they racketeering thugs who shake down anyone with a dime in his pocket for his or her money?

24 posted on 09/26/2017 5:02:07 AM PDT by olezip
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To: Enlightened1

When I a high school student back in the mid to late 1980s, I knew a few people who went on a field trip to New York City (I did the same a little later in May 1989). In any event, one of the places they went to see was the U.N. Headquarters and when they were there, the tour guide asked to have the Canadian flag pointed out because they themselves could not remember what it looked like. Seems the same intellect level is still running that place, eh?

Take off with your paying slavery reparations, eh?


25 posted on 09/26/2017 5:02:32 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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To: Vermont Lt

Payments to who? The UN treasury, probably!


26 posted on 09/26/2017 5:04:09 AM PDT by W. (What's crackin', bitch? Har!)
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To: W.

P.S., hope Canada tells UN to go pound icicles!


27 posted on 09/26/2017 5:06:19 AM PDT by W. (What's crackin', bitch? Har!)
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To: silverleaf

Do white devils have to pay an original sin tax to mother Africa or all white people due reparations as the product of a science experiment gone wrong by an African scientist who created white people as the manifestation of evil in the world?


28 posted on 09/26/2017 5:07:29 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: ThinkingBuddha

Oh Prophet! We have made lawful to thee thy wives
to whom thou hast paid their dowries; and those
slaves whom thy right hand possess out of the
prisoners whom Allah has assigned to thee.
Quran 33:50

So enormous, so dreadful, so irredeemable did the
(slave) trade’s wickedness appear that my own
mind was completely made up for abolition.
William Wilberforce

All married women are forbidden unto thee save
those captives whom thy right hand possess.
This is a decree of Allah for thee.
Quran 4:24

You may choose to look the other way, but you
can never say again that you did not know.
William Wilberforce

Slavery is part of Islam. Slavery is part of jihad,
and jihad will remain as long as there is Islam.
Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan
Saudi religious leader

Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

(The above is a “front page” from my new novel. In the book, it’s centered. And I wonder how many Americans or Canadians have any idea who Wilberforce is?)

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Cliffs-Zerhoun-Matthew-Bracken/dp/0972831053/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1506427857&sr=1-1


29 posted on 09/26/2017 5:12:34 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: BitWielder1

The country wasn’t independent until decades after slavery was abolished; this is just gibsmedat BS. It is a global phenomenon.

Setting up a department like that of Indian affairs is just creating more pets for Canadians to house, clothe, feed, and pretend to school. We have that already here in the US as well; American taxpayers are involuntarily saddled with the costs of tens of millions of preferred minority pets.


30 posted on 09/26/2017 5:13:17 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: BuffaloJack

How hypocritical.

The UN supports slavery, supports slave states,
protects slave states, and many of UN workers have
slaves — and keep them in closets in the US.


31 posted on 09/26/2017 5:17:55 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Paulie

32 posted on 09/26/2017 5:18:11 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Paulie

American society, through it’s Democrat politicians keeps a “Pet Class” that it “houses, clothes, feeds, entertains, and pretends to educate” for the sole purpose of extracting there political support in the election process. The special people in that class are now turning on their masters because the identity politics that have given them victimization have soured. We are now experiencing the first stages of the terror that burned out the French Revolution.


33 posted on 09/26/2017 5:28:19 AM PDT by RedEyeJack (What was the basis for the restriction?)
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To: Enlightened1

Didn’t the underground railroad transport slaves to Canada for protection?


34 posted on 09/26/2017 5:38:08 AM PDT by z3n
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To: Bulwyf

I think the fact that blacks in the UK and Canada have higher arrest rates than whites though they were never enslaved their (barring the rare Quebec status symbol) is evidence that black subculture is the problem everywhere, not everyone else’s.

Below is from a Toronto paper.

Since he started in 2005, he’s never seen a year where the Black population in federal prisons didn’t rise. Overall during his tenure, Sapers has watched the number of Black inmates grow by 69 per cent.
https://torontoist.com/2016/04/african-canadian-prison-population/

If black crime rates are going up in Canada along with the endorsement of rap culture and black identity, then we have a cause - black identity and rap culture instead of bourgeois values of work, education, marriage. This also identifies the solution as a cultural correction, but liberal identity politics forbids that.


35 posted on 09/26/2017 6:03:18 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: Enlightened1

It is interesting that the biggest organization of slave dealers on earth, Moslems being historically and currently the biggest slaveholders and dealers in the world, is demanding reparations from Canada.


36 posted on 09/26/2017 6:08:12 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Enlightened1
"In the meanwhile slavery continues in Africa, the Middle East and Asia..."

The United Nations has become a joke and trag

And in America, Canada, the United Kingdom, etc, etc.... Rich people will always have slaves. Slaves that they pay a pittance to and slaves they don't pay at all and they're are plenty of United Nation diplomats who have slaves.

37 posted on 09/26/2017 6:17:50 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Enlightened1

Obviously, while the UN might have hosted President Trump, they didn’t listen to a word he said.

Check the shelf pull date on the UN. I think it is expired.


38 posted on 09/26/2017 6:23:24 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (He is leading us in Making America Great Again!)
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To: Enlightened1
It would be easier if those Third World Tyrants who run the UN would just list who's not responsible for all the problems of the world.

They'd wind up listing only themselves: an old, old story, "Make us a ruling oligarchy with absolute power, and all will be well," and that's when the reign of terror and ghastly mass murder begin.

39 posted on 09/26/2017 6:34:08 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Those who want to repeat history prevent others from knowing it.)
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To: Enlightened1

And Canada being the Lefty Cucks they are, will probably pay.


40 posted on 09/26/2017 7:24:02 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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