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    Do you actually think anything will come of the U.N. Reparation decesion?


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    US owes blacks reparations over slavery: UN experts


    AFP•September 27, 2016



    A pair of slave shackles on display in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (AFP Photo/Chip Somodevilla)
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    Geneva (AFP) - The United States should give African Americans reparations for slavery, UN experts said Tuesday, warning that the country had not yet confronted its legacy of "racial terrorism."
    Amid a presidential election campaign in which racial rhetoric has played a central role, the UN working group on people of African descent warned that blacks in the US were facing a "human rights crisis."



    This has largely been fuelled by impunity for police officers who have killed a series of black men -- many of them unarmed -- across the country in recent months, the working group's report said.
    Those killings "and the trauma they create are reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynchings," said the report, which was presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday.
    Addressing the deeper causes of America's racial tensions, the experts voiced concern over the unresolved "legacy of colonial history, enslavement, racial subordination and segregation, racial terrorism and racial inequality."
    "There has been no real commitment to reparations and to truth and reconciliation for people of African descent," the report said.
    Working group chairman Ricardo A. Sunga told reporters that the panel believed several models of reparations could work in the US context, including "elements of apology" and a form of "debt relief" to the descendants of enslaved people.
    Asked about the campaign and accusations that Republican nominee Donald Trump has made racially inflammatory remarks, Sunga voiced alarm over "hate speech...xenophobia (and) Afrophobia."
    "We are very troubled that these are on the rise," he added, without naming Trump specifically but calling on officials and "even candidates" to watch their words.
    Trump and his camp have denied all racism charges.
    In the campaign's first debate on Monday, Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton accused Trump of launching his campaign on the "racist lie" that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.
    The UN working group visited the several US states in January before producing their final report.

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    Seen this a few days ago... Thought, what a joke... Tell King George's people... Break bread

    crazy talk... but I guess it pays to have crazy discussion in today's world..

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    i skimmed through some of the 6,000 comments on this yahoo article



    pure gold. If there was ever a time where social pressure could make this a reality it is now.

    So I'm intrested to see if anything comes of this. It's obviously going to HAVE to happen at some point.

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    Why does this have to happen at some point. United States did not make people slaves.

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    NO, nothing. Simply another exercise to make the US look bad. It will NEVER happen.

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    We should just give them all a card every month that they could use to buy food.

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    i can envision a few hand jobs and perhaps a few bags of crack coming from it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jaycee Harland View Post
    NO, nothing. Simply another exercise to make the US look bad. It will NEVER happen.
    It will the softening of society... To heal wounds they will have to. Might not happen in our lifetimes but it will.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Foxx View Post
    We should just give them all a card every month that they could use to buy food.
    they could do that but I see a problem...


    Too too many white people already have that card. They need something new. A lump sum option would be nice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zert View Post
    Why does this have to happen at some point. United States did not make people slaves.
    Trump supporter no doubt

    fukkin idiots 99.7% of them... The other .3 educated bigots. The worst kind of bigot.

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    Would be tough to determine. Who qualifies, who doesnt, how much, how to pay for it. What families, how many generations back. And then the giant fight that would go off after it was announced.

    Doubt we see it in our lifetime but who knows.

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    Quote Originally Posted by teaserpleaser View Post
    better question is do you think it would matter?






    you know why this is so funny? because it is 100% true. Black people would bend over backwards to give it right back.

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