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U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel
Washington Post ^ | 9/27/16 | Ishaan Tharoor

Posted on 09/27/2016 5:09:21 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper

The history of slavery in the United States justifies reparations for African Americans, argues a recent report by a U.N.-affiliated group based in Geneva.

This conclusion was part of a study by the United Nations' Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, a body that reports to the international organization's High Commissioner on Human Rights. The group of experts, which includes leading human rights lawyers from around the world, presented its findings to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday, pointing to the continuing link between present injustices and the dark chapters of American history.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: affrican; africa; black; greed; history; money; negro; race; racism; reparations; slave; slavery; un; unracism
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To: oblomov

The UN helped get thousands of Americans get killed in no win wars(with help from treasonous DC crowd). How about reparations to Americans who lost family members in those wars?


61 posted on 09/27/2016 5:54:36 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide
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To: Hildy
Years ago Trump asked then President Bush to give him the UN and he would turn it into a luxury condominium that would actually MAKE MONEY for NY.

As mayor, Giuliani said something very much like that.

62 posted on 09/27/2016 5:56:46 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Why don’t we start with the UN paying reparations to the children and women that the UN employees raped and trafficked?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9041974/What-the-UN-Doesnt-Want-You-to-Know.html


63 posted on 09/27/2016 5:56:54 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: SoFloFreeper

Just gonna blow it on Ripple and Blunts.


64 posted on 09/27/2016 5:58:23 PM PDT by tbpiper
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To: A CA Guy

Ken Hamblin used to say he thanked God every day when he woke up in America that his ancestors had been slaves.


65 posted on 09/27/2016 6:01:49 PM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

it would not surprise me one bit if Hillary and Obama hired mercenary snipers to kill cops and stir up this “Black Lives Matters” malarky. With this type of results as the motive....If they could cook up “Fast and Furious” and skate, they could pull off any False Flag..I am so crazy I even think they ordered a “hit” on ambassador Stevens in Benghazi


66 posted on 09/27/2016 6:03:36 PM PDT by KTM rider
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67 posted on 09/27/2016 6:03:38 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: ETL

The Islamic nations did not end slavery until 1980, at least ostensibly. They still practice slavery today...in fact the Arabic term for slave is the same word as “black man”. Yet Islam always gets a pass


68 posted on 09/27/2016 6:10:59 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Let's Roll
Black people are coddled in this country compared to the rest of the world and that includes Africa.

Tend to agree and that coddling could be considered a form of reparations.

69 posted on 09/27/2016 6:10:59 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Parmy

>>Well, my greatgrandfather was in the Union army and was a prisoner of war for a time until there was a prisoner exchange.<<

Ya don’t say. Heck, it was either of my GGfathers that held them captive. lol

Just kidding.

http://www.scv.org/


70 posted on 09/27/2016 6:12:29 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: Hildy
Years ago Trump asked then President Bush to give him the UN and he would turn it into a luxury condominium that would actually MAKE MONEY for NY.

New York Times
April 11, 1997

"Mayor Giuliani, who said the international body was on the verge of becoming a laughingstock, began talking half-seriously about the fancy hotels and apartment buildings that could be built on the site if United Nations members carried through on their threats to leave.

Speaking to a group of reporters in his office, he said: "They are making a little bit of a joke out of the U.N. by threatening to take a parking violations case to the World Court. It was not put together by treaty to argue out special-interest parking situations for diplomats."

Instead of settling wars and resolving human rights violations, he said, the institution was "defining diplomacy down" by arguing about parking tickets.

Mr. Giuliani was no kinder to the State Department, which just last month, in a public ceremony, signed an agreement with the city to force diplomats to pay their parking tickets on the threat of removing their plates. With State Department officials now seeking to remove the teeth from that agreement, the Mayor accused them of cowering to overblown United Nations threats to leave the United States over the parking rules, and said the diplomats’ bluff should be called.

"If they’d like to leave New York over parking tickets, then we can find another use for that area of town," he said. "It happens to be just about the most valuable real estate in the world, not just in the United States. That is enormously valuable real estate, and with the vacancy rates that exist in the city of New York, can you imagine what we could do with that?"

In case anyone thought he was bluffing, he had city lawyers check the United Nations lease to determine who gets the riverfront property if the institution leaves town.
(Answer: the Federal Government could use it; if it did not want it, the city would have next crack.)..."

http://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/11/nyregion/parking-ticket-uproar-at-un-for-now-peace-has-no-chance.html

71 posted on 09/27/2016 6:16:16 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The UN panel filled with Muslim slave masters.


72 posted on 09/27/2016 6:17:43 PM PDT by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

My great-great granddaddy is lying in the cemetery in Andersonville GA. There’s your damned reparations.


73 posted on 09/27/2016 6:17:49 PM PDT by SelmaLee (Will crawl over broken, burning glass - to vote for TRUMP.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If the UN was relevant they would be taking action against the Islamic countries that still enslave people.
Otherwise, they can stick poles up their butts and spin on them.
Best thing we could do is build a building in Iran and let them assemble there.


74 posted on 09/27/2016 6:19:32 PM PDT by bobo1 (Truth has but only one voice.)
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To: All

Sure,
Right after the descendants of the African tribal chiefs pay them for selling them into slavery in the first place, and the descendants of the muslim arab slave traders pay them for having purchased them from the chiefs and transporting them to and selling them in America.

And since the muslims continue to deal in the slave trade business, they shouldn’t be too hard to track down.

I’m also in the “No reparations without repatriation” crowd


75 posted on 09/27/2016 6:20:34 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: colorado tanker

I’m sure the UN group will effectively “administer” the amount of $$ it extracts for these reparations. Nothing at all to worry about. [/s]


76 posted on 09/27/2016 6:21:03 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: SoFloFreeper

NO.

Your move.


77 posted on 09/27/2016 6:22:36 PM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: spodefly

only over my cold dead body....


78 posted on 09/27/2016 6:22:48 PM PDT by Bullfrogg (American by birth, Irish by heritage, and hellraiser by choice)
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To: PubliusMM

It never had any usefulness. Never


79 posted on 09/27/2016 6:28:46 PM PDT by chesley (The right to protest is not the right to disrupt.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Come and get it, bitches


80 posted on 09/27/2016 6:32:25 PM PDT by Thomas Truxtun
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