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Posted on 06/17/2020 11:00:12 AM PDT by kevcol
The UN's human rights chief today urged countries to confront the legacy of slavery and colonialism and to make amends for 'centuries of violence and discrimination' through reparations.
Addressing an urgent debate on racism and police brutality at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Michelle Bachelet called on countries to examine their pasts and to strive to better understand the scope of continuing 'systemic discrimination'.
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George Floyd's brother, Philonise Floyd, called on the United Nations to set up an independent commission to investigate the killings of African Americans by police.
He made his speech via video message during the meeting.
'I am my brother's keeper,' he said.
'You, at the United Nations, are your brothers and sisters keepers in America, and you have the power to help us get justice for my brother... I'm asking you to help him.
'I'm asking you to help me. I'm asking you to help us black people in America.
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Like the Arab countries?
At $26 trillion, the United States is the poorest country on earth. We should get a pass.
“Yes UN- Sand, pound you will.”
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Slavery existed a total of 78 years in the United States of America which was established with the signing of the Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson included strong anti-slavery trade language in the original draft of the Declaration of Independence, but other delegates removed it.
Sorry, the United States of Amercia became a nation with the signing of the Constitution in 1787.
Slavery existed in the US for sum total of 78 years.
What other country worked at an finally ended slavery over such a short timespan?
They need to start looking at Spain, Portugal, and other European countries, rather than the US.
In 1794 the US banned American ships from participating in the slave trade and the exporting of slaves from the US by foreign ships.
In 1800 the US banned its citizens from investment and employment in the slave trade.
In 1806 In a message to Congress, Thomas Jefferson calls for criminalizing the international slave trade, asking Congress to “withdraw the citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights … which the morality, the reputation, and the best of our country have long been eager to proscribe.”
In 1808 in Michigan Judge Augustus Woodward denies the return of two slaves owned by a man in Windsor, Upper Canada. Woodward declares that any man “coming into this Territory is by law of the land a freeman.”
We fought a massive Civil War in the 1860’s to end slavery.
In 1866 Slavery abolished. US government treaties with the “Five Civilized Tribes” in the Indian Territory (the Cherokee Nation, Choctaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Muscogee Nation, and Seminole Nation), which allied with the Confederacy, required all five tribes to abolish slavery for renewed US recognition of their governments.
American Indians had not stopped the ownership of slaves Black or Indian.
So legal slave trading existed for 19 years in the US before it was outlawed.
Slavery continued until 1929 in Persia (Iran and other Muslim countries).
In fact forms of slavery are still practiced in the Middle East.
To quote you again “Yes UN- Sand, pound you will.”
Go talk to Spain, Portugal, the Dutch, and the British that practice slave trading for centuries before the US became a nation. go talk to the countries that made the profits of the dastardly act.
And.....go sue the Muslim countries that continued the slave trade until the 20th century and up until now.
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President Trump would do the world a big favor by pulling out all funding and kicking the UN to the curb and back to Africa whence it has performed its worst duties to a T.. Terribly.
Get the U.S. the hell out of the socialist anti American U.N.
Just another reason to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US.
Why is this country still a member of the UN?
These clueless bozos are going to find out the penalty for being a “Global Citizen” soon enough.
Apparently Nimrod is en vogue now.
It’s really all about taking money from the USA and giving it to those who do nothing to earn money.
I’d rather another civil war
Big surprise Manchurian Candidate Barack Hussein Obama was cheering them on.
He’s doing great work for the god of this world.
The god of this world hath given him fame and fortune.
Dump Michelle off in South Chicago after midnight on a Saturday...
Or the same done in Eastern Europe by the various muslim empires?
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