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UN: USA Owes Reparations to African-Americans
The New American ^ | 10/20/217 | Steve Byas

Posted on 10/20/2017 8:18:39 AM PDT by Bon of Babble

The UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent issued a report on Monday, stating that the United States owes Americans of African descent reparations for slavery and other incidents of mistreatment, up to the present day.

The group asserts that the reparations are due because of the disadvantages caused by 245 years of legalized slavery of black Africans in America, and that the United States has not confronted its legacy of “racial terrorism.”

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To: Bon of Babble

61 posted on 10/20/2017 8:51:52 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: JohnyBoy

This is their homeland. If I had your attitude, as a Cherokee, I could demand you be returned to your homeland.


62 posted on 10/20/2017 8:53:29 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Bon of Babble

I know a white guy who was born and raised in South Africa. Does he get reparations too?


63 posted on 10/20/2017 8:54:43 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)
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To: Bon of Babble

you can go see the reparations at Arlington.


64 posted on 10/20/2017 8:54:50 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: dsrtsage

A foo and der munny bee sune apartheid!


65 posted on 10/20/2017 8:56:14 AM PDT by Professional
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To: Bon of Babble

Yes, and thank you for such a good response to this!


66 posted on 10/20/2017 8:56:46 AM PDT by Professional
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To: Bon of Babble

Well hell, my ancestors were Celts, I demand reparations from the Italians.


67 posted on 10/20/2017 8:58:07 AM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (Every time you vote for a democrat, you put another nail in the coffin of the USA.....)
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To: caligatrux

“The UN is a joke. “

Hey UN...can you see what I’m holding up?


68 posted on 10/20/2017 9:01:26 AM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Bonemaker

69 posted on 10/20/2017 9:03:00 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PSUGOP
African Americans should be forever grateful their ancestors endured the horrors of slavery. Otherwise they would only be Africans.....far worse off collectively.

That's may standard take on this reparations BS plus my people got here around 1900. So count me out.

70 posted on 10/20/2017 9:09:12 AM PDT by dennisw (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it is enemy action.)
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To: Bon of Babble

I think we should take every cent we give to the UN for one year, divvy it up between everyone who can prove they were harmed by slavery that ended 150 years ago, tell them that is all that is ever coming, kick the UN out of the country, and be done with it all.

I would consider that a win-win.


71 posted on 10/20/2017 9:10:36 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: American Liberty is the egg that requires breaking to make their Utopian omelette.)
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To: onona

how about the greeks from 400 years of slavery at the ottoman turks?

The Armenians?

or more recently, how about those who were sacrificed on the altar of affirmative action (affirmative? what was so positive?) hires or quotas? (jobs, school spots, etc...)


72 posted on 10/20/2017 9:13:28 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Feckless

Post of the decade


73 posted on 10/20/2017 9:13:45 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: JohnyBoy

500k Americans died to centralize power in DC. I fixed it for you.

That war was never about slavery.


74 posted on 10/20/2017 9:14:38 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Waryone

who will manage the money? the UN manage money?


75 posted on 10/20/2017 9:18:14 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Bon of Babble

I already paid reparations (40 acres and a mule, with a bonus $1,000,000) to every slave I ever owned, and to the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of all of my slaves. Not only that, but I paid the same amount to the descendants of each and every slave owned by my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, great-great-grandparents, and great great-great-grandparents, going back over 200 years. I’m done with reparations.

As for the $20T in national debt we are passing on to our kids, that is proof that the welfare class has already received their share from our children and grandchildren. Let’s move on. It’s time to judge the American people as individuals, based on the content of their character and not the color of their skin.


76 posted on 10/20/2017 9:19:54 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: JohnyBoy

I understand your point. But the root cause in all of this is how the Left has destroyed blacks through a failed education system that teaches blacks that whites and America are evil. Also leftist policies as well.


77 posted on 10/20/2017 9:24:20 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: shotgun

each successive generation will want their own “reparations”. It will be a bottomless free money pit.


78 posted on 10/20/2017 9:34:06 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Bon of Babble

I notice the UN is not asking any South American countries for reparations. They had slaves as well. I wonder why that is? Follow the money.


79 posted on 10/20/2017 9:38:44 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: onona
What about me and my Irish ancestor slave ? Where’s my reparations ?

Take it up with the UN Working Group of Experts on People of Irish Descent!

Regards,

80 posted on 10/20/2017 9:39:50 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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