Posted on 02/01/2016 11:08:13 AM PST by TigerClaws
A United Nations working group visiting the United States walks away "extremely concerned about the human rights situation of African Americans," members said in a preliminary report released Friday, in which they urged the US government to address the legacy of slavery with "reparatory justice," a national human rights commission, and ongoing criminal justice reform.
"The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism, and racial inequality in the US remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent," wrote members of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, at the conclusion of a 10-day trip to the United States.
The Working Group is preparing a final report to deliver in September 2016, as part of the International Decade for People of African Descent, which the UN began in 2015 to recognize and remedy the ongoing impacts of slavery and colonialism on more than 200 million people of African descent living around the world. Many of its preliminary recommendations are drawn from a similar report following a study visit to the US in 2010.
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It is loooooong past time for the UN to fold up tents and GTFO
I think Lincoln said something like “the blood of 640,000 men that died in battle is payment enough for the sins of slavery”
I think reparations should come from the nations that kidnapped them for the slave trade in the first place — the root cause.
That ain’t America.
“UN group recommends ‘reparatory justice’ for African Americans”
Hey, UN eat $hit!!!
My Great-great Grandfather for one, buried at Andersonville Prison, since 1864.
That’s all the ‘reparations’ I’m prepared to give.
All the little dictators want more money
Good.
Now we can discuss “reparatory justice” for the Mediterranean and Southern European peoples who suffered brutality, mass-murder, torture, rape and mass slavery for hundreds of years under the Islamic scimitar.
None of my relatives got here to the USA before 1911, so I should get a tax break from all the rest of you slave holders!
You mean descendants?
Dear UN, speaking of ‘reparations’:
“North African pirates abducted and enslaved more than 1 million Europeans between 1530 and 1780 in a series of raids which depopulated coastal towns from Sicily to Cornwall, according to new research.
Thousands of white Christians were seized every year to work as galley slaves, labourers and concubines for Muslim overlords in what is today Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya, it is claimed.”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/mar/11/highereducation.books
amen. and revoked us citizenship and no-entry ever again. i am sure they will not care because who would return to this hellhole?
Europe needs big reparations checks from the muslims then. And America from the muslim barbary pirates. And from europe for religious persecution. From england for the revolutionary war and the war of 1812.
This is all such bs.
Do Jews get reparations also? What about the Kurds? Oh, and how about families of American prisoners in Japan during WW2?
Only if Blacks agree to give up US citizenship and go back to African country of origin based on their dna.
Oops.....Thank you...
Ever notice how so many recommendations by so many groups involve one common trait? They all advocate things that will weaken America.
"The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism, and racial inequality in the US remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,"
And there never will be any kind of commitment towards reparations. That ship has sailed, over a hundred years ago. If the UN is so concerned about enslavement, let them go work in Africa and in Muslim countries where slavery isn't a centuries-old notation in a history book but is in fact ongoing today. FU UN.
Or we could give our UN dues money to African Americans and give the UN nothing.
I would make that deal.
I assume the UN told muslim nations that they owe reparations to Europe for all those slave raids along the coast of Europe for hundreds of years?
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