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In reply to the discussion: U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel [View all]while reading down the thread was certainly illuminating, I'm not going to step into that mess. I'll focus on the article:
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."
"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."
I don't care if you call it reparations or something else. The point is to break that link with the past that continues to allow, to encourage even, African Americans to be treated like second class citizens, and like criminals deserving of public and private physical and economic violence.
I'm sorry that it takes an outside agency to point all of this out, but I'm grateful for this report.
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U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel [View all]
NWCorona
Sep 2016
OP
Significant harm through past discrimination cannot be cured merely by the elimination of the...
xocet
Sep 2016
#4
That is obvious. Native Americans should also be given significant reparations. n/t
xocet
Sep 2016
#2
As noted before, you assume a lot in your reading (or casual perusal) of articles and replies.
xocet
Sep 2016
#47
How about a slice of the hughly bloated military budget go to college education . . .
brush
Sep 2016
#28
Just pointing out that, people being people, I doubt everyone will hug it out afterward. NT
Sand Rat Expat
Sep 2016
#41
I guess it's because it was black people (not white people) kept as slaves, DUH!
anniebelle
Sep 2016
#63
Well, sorry they removed that typical racist's remark so soon. I had some facts for him.
anniebelle
Sep 2016
#67
Formerly enslaved people of course are not still living (but you knew that). Their descendants . . .
brush
Sep 2016
#84
I guess it's too bad Abe didn't nip this in the bud. He was way too nice. Cheers.
Missn-Hitch
Sep 2016
#108
You might want to reread the article. It does not say what you seem to think that it says. n/t
xocet
Sep 2016
#13
If you had a little more knowledge you'd know it isn't stupid and there is a precedent
brush
Sep 2016
#29
America loves to blame their black population for it's suffering as if it's deserved.
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2016
#62
Perhaps those reparations could be paid by the current slaveholders in saudi arabia
RaymondLuxuryYacht
Sep 2016
#68