Posted on 06/05/2023 8:39:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
African-American law professors and critical race theorists are urging the United Nations to order America to pay millions of dollars to each black citizen, reports the London Daily Mail. That would cost America over $200 trillion, many times the size of its economy. Some left-wing legal scholars claim reparations are required by international human-rights treaties signed by the U.S. or by customary international law.
Their effort reflects the reality that reparations are very unpopular among American taxpayers, so there is little chance that the federal government will pay reparations, unless it is ordered to do so by the UN. 63 percent of Americans oppose reparations, although 57% of voters age 18 to 29 support them.
“Justin Hansford, a professor at Howard University School of Law, led the charge for $5 million payouts to black Americans at the UN this week, flanked by colleagues from the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University,” says the Daily Mail:
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Blacks should be thankful their ancestors were slaves. Compare their own lives to those in the sub-Sahara Africa where slaves were brought from and they would amazed.
My ancestors got here in the 1880’s......not a dime from this white guy. My family was never wealthy enough to oppress anyone. Now we are rich enough, we don’t need to........it is about work, work, work, save, save, save.
Since when does the un have authority over the USA to "order" reparations to grifters?
I’d pay the blacks to renounce their citizenship and be permanently exiled from America.
What black people in America need is to accept responsibility for their own futures and stop making childish excuses for their own lack of success.
They are actually clinging TO slavery by expecting somebody else to hand them happiness and self-respect.
They possess the tools THEMSELVES to move forward with their lives and be happy if they would simply use those tools.
This is just another chance for the left to steal from the contrived straw man cause of the day. Every dime will vanish, only to magically reappear in the left’s bank accounts...
What about the countries in Africa that rounded them up and sold them?
LOL!!!
That said....the UN can go pound sand. And IF our GOV..goes for that BS...We as a Country are done.
Some left-wing legal scholars claim reparations are required by international human-rights treaties signed by the U.S. or by customary international law.
This was long before there were any ‘international human-rights treaties’ or customary international law.
They will get nothing and like it.
z’Leftist scholar” HAS to be one of the top oxymorons of all time the multiverse.
The real goal is not to perform “reparations” but, as always with these things, to fleece a willing taxpayer.
How it’ll work will be like every other government social program - about 10% of the cash will make it into the hands of the “deserving” and the other 90% will go to support the government infrastructure and employees who manage the program.
And, of course, once reparations are paid, that additional government spending won’t go away because it’ll be the new budgetary baseline.
If reparations are to be paid it should be paid by slave owners not their dependents nor the general public. This is just a scam to further divide blacks and whites.
I wonder if they will request blue helmeted UN soldiers to enforce those payments.
They want to make damn sure festering race relations remain an active infection for generations to come. There is power in that to be gained and held, and big money to be made for the elites.
Certainties are these:
elites care about no one but themselves and those they do not murder, they want to enslave.
Blacks and Latinos are being played just as we have been played.
We didn't vote for them.
the US already has.
every cent that the UN can spend, comes from US.
Authorize every African American (including Elon Musk) to receive $1 trillion by allowing each to deduct $1.00 a year from his or her income taxes for $1.00 trillion years. The authorization cannot be used with any other government give-away program and terminates with the death of the individual.
We have paid them $30 trillion since LBJ.
“African-American law professors”
Hah!!! Journalists love to avoid using the very honest and meaningful word SOME !!!!!
Yes, you and I are aware of that.
The people receiving the money, however, believe prices would remain static and they’d be rich..
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