Posted on 09/27/2016 7:13:59 PM PDT by drewh
A United Nations-affiliated group in Geneva is calling for the U.S. to give African Americans reparations for the country’s history of slavery, according to a recent report by the group.
The group’s statement was part of a study by the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, a group that reports to the international organization’s High Commissioner on Human Rights.
The group of experts, made up of leading human rights lawyers from around the world, presented its findings about the link between the U.S.’s history of slavery and present injustices, such as the recent police shootings of African Americans.
“In particular, the legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the United States remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent,” the report stated. “Contemporary police killings and the trauma that they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching.”
The panel said that police shootings of African Americans during the past year have caused a “human rights crisis” that is in urgent need of addressing and compared recent shootings to acts of lynchings in the late 1800s.
The group said the reparations could come in a variety of forms, such as “a formal apology, health initiatives, educational opportunities, … psychological rehabilitation, technology transfer and financial support, and debt cancellation.”
Ricardo A. Sunga, one of the panel members who was asked about the presidential race in the United States, talked about “hate speech … xenophobia (and) Afrophobia” prevalent in the race, but did not call out any candidates by name.
The reparations, however, are unlikely to occur since the group’s recommendations are non-binding and unlikely to influence policy in the United States.
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60 years of free chit nope were done here
When Saudi Arabia pays reparations for current ongoing slavery actions.
U.N. pandering to Obama with black racism...not there is a switch.
FUun
Come and take it.
Include The Irish Slaves also
:)
BS . The Union owes the Southern states for invasion & pillage. The wrong side won in 1865 .
Maybe we can just apply it as a credit against all the welfare checks, food stamps, cell phones, and all of the other free stuff we’ve given them over the years, and send them a bill for the difference.
Getting the US out of the UN has become an issue again....
The Huns and the Mongols and the Romans owe me some money.
The most beautiful Trump Tower ever to go on the former site of the UN.
WOW factor that in to the national debt? Cuckoo, I am pretty sure some folks are already calling their lawyers so’s they can gets paid.
Amen to that.
a link between this and the BLM movement?? Hmmm.....
Better ask the Secretary General wannabe.
I’ll chip in for one-way tix to Africa and a mule.
I agree. Repatriation would be the best for all parties.
And the muslims get a pass on their slavery. Seems like all the UN’s big ideas revolve around the USA footing the bill for something or other. If Trump gets elected, these grifters will slide back under their slimy rocks, taking their whacky views with them. Who knows maybe he can even get them kicked out of the country. Let France have them.
Reparations paid in full.
Over 750 000 dead, tens of thousands without arms, legs, eyes. Homes and families destroyed.
Work it all out it is one white person gave up all he had to free one black person.
Wonder how many of these UN idiots would volunteer to give up their lives to free anyone.
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