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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Lets talk about what the UN owes to everyplace it has ever been and screwed up worse by being there.
No more reparations.
No more UN. GTFO.
After the famous "rumble in the jungle," wasn't it Muhamed Ali who said "Thank God, my great granddaddy boarded that slave ship" when questioned about his impression of Zaire?
Another inconvenient truth is that the Civil War was not initiated to end slavery, it was initiated to stop independence for people who wanted to be free of Washington D.C.
Ending Slavery did not become a goal of the war until a year and a half later. Hypocritically enough, Slavery was ended in the Confederacy before it was ended in the Union.
I have learned just this year that the Union launched the war against the South to get back 200 million in European Trade revenue produced by the South, and 3/4ths of which paid all the bills to operate the Federal Government.
The 75% of the population that lived in the North only paid 25% of the cost of running the Federal Government. The South, meaning mostly the slaves, paid all the rest.
There has just been a lot of propaganda spread on this issue, but the economic data doesn't lie. It was a financial disaster for the Union when the South split away from them.
It is enlightening to read letters from Union. Soldiers written early in the war.
Go figure....
Most of the members of the “United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent” happen to be of “African Descent”
People paid for working at or around the UN owe the American people 99% of their salaries because they say such S-T-O-O-P-I-D things with an exclamation point.
God, I hope Trump gets us out of this criminal community known as the UN.
Soo,...does that apply to the black Africans who caught the slaves in Africa and sold them to the ships?
Over my dead body.
I owe them SQUAT!...and my ancestors DID have slaves!
Not my fault and I don’t take responsibility for something that happened 150 years ago or more!
Bah!
Hundreds of thousands of young men lost their lives fighting to end slavery during the Civil War. That’s reparation enough.
Don’t forget the Indians and Italians were barred from civil service jobs, if not other, include them also. Indians first IMHO.
Otoken’s legacy is “wealth without work”...
Selected ones, or a cross section of them? To which ones are you referring?
No they didn't. They fought to end Independence for the Southern States. If they were fighting to end slavery, the Emancipation Proclamation would have been issued July 21, 1861 instead of January of 1863.
If "ending slavery" was the reason for the war, why did they wait nearly two years before announcing it? Why did slavery continue in the Union states for long after it was abolished in the Confederate ones?
The American public has been fed a load of crap, and the propaganda has become ingrained in the public mindset.
You are welcome. It is important that we get the truth out there, even when it is embarrassing to some people.
“The wrong side won in 1865.”
Just for clarification, do you believe that slavery, as it existed in the south at the time of the civil war, should have continued to be legal?
If so, I think that is an untenable position.
Perhaps a better case could be made for saying the war could have been avoided while preserving states rights. Abraham Lincoln wanted to end slavery, but he also wanted to preserve the union even more, no matter the cost. I personally consider him a hero, but what if he was wrong?
It could be that allowing the southern states to secede and then forming trade alliances designed to punish slave-owning and slave-trading nations could have continued to erode the slave industry out of existence. We will never know.
Regardless, there are more people treated as property today than any time in human history. Western / Christian ideals of human freedom were the catalyst for change worldwide, but these are now being rejected in favor of the horrific human rights abuses of fascists regimes of the world, including the leftists that control this country today.
And what was the issue that the Southern states wanted independence over?
Money. They wanted to keep the money earned by their exports to Europe instead of losing 40% of it to New York.
They also wanted to set up Shipping industries, Factories and other industries rivaling with and competing against Northern manufacturing interests.
Charleston was going to become "Carthage" to New York's "Rome", and "Rome" wasn't going to have any of that.
"Rome" sicced their Washington Agents on the South in order to stop the money loss, and then 18 months after the fact, their agents declared that ending slavery had become a goal of the war.
In all fairness, they had to come up with something to rationalize why they had killed so many people, and the last thing they would tell them was the truth; that the war was started to keep the money flowing into the pockets of the Wealthy Power Barons of New England.
No, they certainly couldn't tell the people that!
But that is what the financial records from the time shows.
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