United Nations Calls On U.S. To Pay African Americans Reparations For Slavery

According to a United Nations group it's time for the United States to pay reparations to African-American descendants of slavery, establish a national human rights commission and publicly acknowledge that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity.
You may want to sit down for this.
The "United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent" released its preliminary recommendations after more than a week of meetings with black Americans and others from around the country, including Baltimore, Chicago, New York City, the District of Columbia and Jackson, Mississippi.
After finishing their fact-finding mission, the working group was "extremely concerned about the human rights situation of African-Americans," chair Mireille Fanon Mendes-France of France said in the report. "The colonial history, the legacy of enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality in the U.S. remains a serious challenge as there has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent."
Mendes-France compared the recent deaths of unarmed black men like Michael Brown and Eric Garner at the hands of police to the lynchings of black men in the South from the post-Civil War days through the Civil Rights era. Those deaths, and others, have inspired protests around the country under the Black Lives Matter moniker.
FURTHER READING:The Case Against Black Reparation
"Contemporary police killings and the trauma it creates are reminiscent of the racial terror lynchings in the past," she told reporters. "Impunity for state violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency."
Some of the working group's members, none of whom are from the United States (naturally), said they were shocked by some of the things they found and were told.
You won't believe the rest of this...

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Some of the UN working group's members, none of whom are from the United States (naturally), said they were shocked by some of the things they found and were told about race in the US.
For example, "it's very easy in the United States for African-Americans to be imprisoned, and that was very concerning," said Sabelo Gumedze of South Africa.
(At this point you may think you are reading an Onion story. Sadly, you are not)
"What stands out for me is the lack of acknowledgement of the slave trade," said Ricardo A. Sunga III, who lives in the Philippines.
Perhaps there's a lack of acknowledgement of the slave trade in the Philippines, but in America every child is taught about the slave trade in middle school. NOBODY is denying that it happened.  EVERYONE acknowledges it.
What does the UN think is the best way to address this perceived lack of awareness of the slave trade?  Build monuments.
The working group suggests monuments, markers and memorials be erected in the United States to facilitate dialogue, and "past injustices and crimes against African-Americans need to be addressed with reparatory justice,"
The group will suggest several U.S. changes to improve human rights for African-Americans, which also include establishing a national human rights commission, ratifying international human rights treaties, asking Congress to study slavery and its aftereffects and considering reparations .
In a piece for the National Review making a case against reparations, Kevin D Williamson, himself an African American wrote: "the case for reparations is only moral primitivism: My interests are inextricably linked to my own kin group and directly rivalrous with yours, i.e., the very racism that this program is in theory intended to redress".
In short, forcing America to pay reparations won't help reduce racial division in America, it will worsen it.
Just don't try using logic and reason with the U.N.
Further reading:
Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations
The United Nations: International Organization and World Politics

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