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International-UN-NGOs
U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,' says U.N. panel
2016-09-28
[WashingtonPost] 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.
The Perps:
Ricardo A. Sunga III - (Chairperson, Philippines)
Ms. Mireille Fanon-Mendes France - (France)
Mr. Sabelo Gumedze - (South Africa)
Mr. Michal Balcerzak - (Poland)
Mr. Ahmed Reid - (Jamaica)
Posted by:Blossom Unains5562

#23  SteveS: I was in Africa at the time. The Africans didn't want them.

Americans are rich, so their money was welcome, but the American blacks were not related to any local tribes. There was a lot of disillusion; American blacks were used to thinking in black and white terms (so to speak), and didn't realize that those categories weren't universal.
Posted by: james   2016-09-28 21:56  

#22  You mean the Democrat party. Not the US.

And

Get off my lawn
Posted by: newc   2016-09-28 21:44  

#21  Now rjschwarz, you see that I was talking about?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-09-28 16:00  

#20  FYVM UN; otherwise what DarthVader said in #1. The UN has no moral high ground in anything. A bunch of jackasses in an organization who the U.S. supports to the tune of about 70% or more wants to do what? The UN (made up of people who are hostile to the U.S. and hate us) is trying to enslave us by demanding reparations to be paid to black Americans? Molon Labe ya all and good luck in the endeavor.
Posted by: JohnQC   2016-09-28 15:37  

#19  Then give them Saudi Arabia. Let the oil be the reparations.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-09-28 15:07  

#18  I don't hate the Somali's so much to relocate the UN there. Other 'countries' in Africa, perhaps.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2016-09-28 13:06  

#17  No reparations without repatriation.

Forty acres and a mule... in Zimbabwe.

In the 60s & 70s, there was a big Back To Africa movement. Don't hear much about that nowadays.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-09-28 12:45  

#16  The Andalusian Caliphate were prolific, brutal slavers.

Then we have the well documented slave bazaar of Tripoli.

The Mexicans and Navajo can sue each other.

Britain can sue Ireland and Norway.

Hell, is there a people today who have not at one point slaved and been enslaved?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2016-09-28 12:34  

#15  No reparations without repatriation.

I like that!
Posted by: jvalentour   2016-09-28 11:53  

#14  re: reparations - I assume the UN will also tax the blacks who raided other tribes for slaves as well the arab traders they sold the slaves to.
Posted by: Sonny Sforza2570   2016-09-28 11:25  

#13  well get reparations from all the countries comprising the old Caliphate in return for taking European, British and US citizens as slaves until Jefferson bombed them into submission

they took 1 million slaves, terrorised the seas
Posted by: anon1   2016-09-28 10:59  

#12  Who's paying reparations to the widows of over 250,000* white Northerns who died to put the 13th Amendment in the Constitution. Reparations in blood was already paid.

*That was in a population of 30 million. Today we're over 300 million. Simple extrapolation shows that would be 2.5 million casualties in today's numbers. Anyone in their rational mind can think of going to war at that cost today? Although we probably will do so in the next civil war.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-09-28 10:16  

#11  According to the folks up North those reparations were paid in blood by the soldiers in the Civil War 150 years ago...
Posted by: Tennessee   2016-09-28 10:09  

#10  .....and the horse you rode in on.
Posted by: AlanC   2016-09-28 08:28  

#9   Surely reparations includes a free ticket back to Africa. Posted by phil_b

End the evil white enforced diaspora. No reparations without repatriation.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-09-28 07:24  

#8  the NFL franchise in Liberia will be a powerhouse....if they don't die from Cholera, Malaria, Ebola, Dengue, ....
Posted by: Frank G   2016-09-28 07:20  

#7  Surely reparations includes a free ticket back to Africa.
Posted by: phil_b   2016-09-28 06:27  

#6  And they were doing so well --- until the Great Society.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-09-28 02:08  

#5  Move the UN to Somalia.
Posted by: Kofi Spawn of the Antelope7607   2016-09-28 00:49  

#4  Is there anyone from France who's not a philosopher?
Posted by: Raj   2016-09-28 00:44  

#3  Mireille Fanon-Mendes France, daughter of Frantz Fanon is the "chairwoman" of the "working group".

Gotta keep this "thing of ours" going. For da family, ifyaknowwhatimean.
Posted by: charger   2016-09-28 00:40  

#2  The guy from South Africa's not up on this irony thing, is he? Sod off, swampy.
Posted by: Raj   2016-09-28 00:30  

#1  Dear hypocritical UN:



Now please go start a shotgun tasting business.
Posted by: DarthVader   2016-09-28 00:12  

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