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sheshe2

(87,896 posts)
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 08:16 PM Sep 2016

United Nations Panel | U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism’



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.

“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.”



Citing the past year’s spate of police officers killing unarmed African American men, the panel warned against “impunity for state violence,” which has created, in its words, a “human rights crisis” that “must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”

The panel drew its recommendations, which are nonbinding and unlikely to influence Washington, after a fact-finding mission in the United States in January. At the time, it hailed the strides taken to make the American criminal justice system more equitable but pointed to the corrosive legacy of the past.



Read More: https://3chicspolitico.com/2016/09/28/united-nations-panel-u-s-owes-black-people-reparations-for-a-history-of-racial-terrorism/

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Will black people ever see this come to pass? I sincerely doubt it. If not reparations, could we at least try this? Equal justice, basic civil rights and set aside our white privilege that we deny we have and just try to live together as the brothers and sisters that we are.

You know, in the not so distant future there will no longer be a white majority. Think about how you wish to be treated then. Think.
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United Nations Panel | U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism’ (Original Post) sheshe2 Sep 2016 OP
Why am I not surprised that anyone gives a shit about this? sheshe2 Sep 2016 #1
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Shouldn't you be out getting your white hood from the cleaners? nt MrScorpio Sep 2016 #3
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Well, of course you're a racist MrScorpio Sep 2016 #5
I think I missed something. sheshe2 Sep 2016 #6
I doubt America pays reparations. Chisox08 Sep 2016 #7
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MrScorpio

(73,714 posts)
5. Well, of course you're a racist
Thu Sep 29, 2016, 10:18 PM
Sep 2016

You're posting anti-black lies. Yet, like most racists, you're more concerned about being called a racist than you are about the racist things you actually say.

Embrace the racism, at least you'd be honest.

Chisox08

(1,898 posts)
7. I doubt America pays reparations.
Fri Sep 30, 2016, 01:54 AM
Sep 2016

America still refuses to answer for its racist past as well as the present. We need to replace the system of white supremacy with a system of justice and it starts with giving African Americans an economic handup to help us catch up with the rest of the country. A system of justice that doesn't unfairly target African Americans for mass incarceration, unemployment, discriminatory lending, hiring and economic practices.

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