Reparations African Americans

The United States is still a long way away from dealing with the systemic and institutionalised racial discrimination that plagues it on all levels, a group of United Nations human rights during an official visit to the USA said.

“Despite substantial changes since the end of the enforcement of Jim Crow [former racial segregation laws in the Southern United States] in the 1960’s and the fight for civil rights, ideology ensuring the domination of one group over another continues to negatively impact the civil, political, economic, social, cultural and environmental rights of African Americans today,” stated the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (WGEPAD) in a recent report.

The WGEPAD issued its preliminary findings and recommendations at the end of its mission to the United States from 19-29 January. The visit was aimed at assessing the situation of African Americans and people of African descent in terms of racism, racial discrimination, afrophobia, xenophobia, and related intolerance.

[shauntikayvette]

Debt CANCELLATION & Land appropriations with education and business grants is my favored option. No offense but I don’t understand why people think we aren’t owed anything when we (my forefathers) were promised 40 acres and a mule that was never paid and I have seen and felt the oppression. Most of us do NOT want welfare checks we want the same advantages given to the whites between 1865 and 2019. Holocaust and Interment camp descendants received reparations so it is precedents in favor of it. Descendants should receive tax exempt status for 400 years, paid healthcare, paid education, and land allotments for the 40 acres never paid plus inflation and interest.

[larrybe]

Were the people who died or struggled to ensure equality giving Blacks their freedom wrong to think future Blacks would be appreciative and embrace what America's opportunities have to offer? As some like to say, we did move forward. It is only for political expediency that some continue to look back.
This UN issue comes from afar so perhaps the UN needs to relocate.

[Ayarv]

America rejected three separate African nations' offers of reparations. Libya offered 3 billion. Reagan rejected the money.

[lowereastsideastrologist]

I'm not black, but I'll vote for anyone who is in strong support of reparations.

[morriswilburn]

Why is the USA being singled out? In the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, literally 10 times more Africans were sent to Brazil than to the US. For 1, 400 years, various Arab groups maintained a slave trade in eastern Africa, which the renowned African historian Henrik Clarke said was “at least at large, if not larger than, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade”.

Indeed, ALL HUMAN HISTORY is brutal. Genghis Khan built the largest contiguous land empire in world history, stretching from western Asia to the Sea of Japan, by killing millions of people, as much as 50% of the population of some countries. During Mao’s “Cultural Revolution”, millions were murdered and millions others imprisoned. Stalin starved to death somewhere between 5 and 8 million people in the Ukraine, and otherwise murdered over 10 million elsewhere in the Soviet Union. Between 1915 and 1920, the Ottoman empire carried out an ethnic cleansing of Armenians in Turkey, killing one million, some by shooting and others by death marches to Syria. In the Rwandan genocide in 1991, approximately 800, 000 people were murdered; some shot, some beaten to death with clubs, some hacked to death with machetes. For over 1, 000 years, albinos (which are much more common in Africa than elsewhere) were severely persecuted in many parts of Africa, even killed at birth. Get my drift?

[The_Love_Doctor_Sean]

France owes Reparations for Haiti also. Your not slick

[jayh]

let's make it happen..500 billion dollar fund to repair the WRONGS that have been done..not just for slavery buy for the victims of jim crow..my grandmother is STILL ALIVE!!!

[SirStumblesALot]

Just unbelievable... Unbelievable Bullshit. UN has lost it. How about the Swedes and Russians pay reparations to Finns while we are at it. How about the the mongolians pay reparations for what they did during the Mongolian Empire and Genghis Khan, or Chinese to pay reparations to the Japanese, or the Japanese to the Chinese, or Egyptians to the Jews, or Muslims to the Slavs... Do I need to go on? This is utterly stupid, plain, utter, idiocy.

[subzero]

They just want free money. You aren't owed anything. Go out and work for it.

[shawnriddick]

The Jews Japanese and natives got it why can't black people come on use common sense we can do this

[cuddles]

My ancestors were enslaved by the Barbary coast. I demand my reparations.

[doobledeeschmoobledee]

Madam, it does take two to tango... and indeed some more to triangle trade. Why not have the Kongo and other African nations pay up their share for participating as well? Better yet, when can pretty much every nation from China to Hungary expect reparations from Mongolia for the countless attacks back in the day, and so on, and so on.

[codex]

What about reparations for French colonialism?

[americandos]

The fact that you have so many dislikes shows you what this lady is talking about.

[GijsTheDog]

Also please mention the Barbary Slave trade, Inter African Slave trade, and Arabic slave trade. Which happened still in 1980 in Mauritania. But no, let's focus on white people alone for what people did 150+ years ago.

[Billy-]

The 650, 000 Americans that died to end slavery in United States was all the reparations needed.

[Danilowned]

black people should get their own reservation like the natives

[blackjournal]

We need autonomy, Land, intelligent central planning & massive development capital...

[staxoffunk]

Becareful what you ask for because after DNA testing to prove eligibility comes back child support and breaks in unsolved crimes.

[Toidentity]

"We Are Coming To Get Our Check." Dr. Martin Luther King. #CutTheCheck