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UN working group suggests US work on racial reconciliation
Associated Press ^ | Jan 29, 2016 4:36 PM EST | Jesse J. Holland

Posted on 01/29/2016 1:43:24 PM PST by Olog-hai

The United States should consider 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, a United Nations working group said Friday.

The U.N. 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." ...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: liberalagenda; oneworldgovernment; racism; reparations; un; unracism
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1 posted on 01/29/2016 1:43:24 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Define ‘racial reconcilation.”
Are blacks going to be required to fix their outrageous levels of violent crime and out-of-wedlock births?


2 posted on 01/29/2016 1:45:17 PM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Olog-hai

FU UN


3 posted on 01/29/2016 1:45:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

step 1 - remove the grievance-mongering US President


4 posted on 01/29/2016 1:45:43 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Olog-hai

This is getting old.


5 posted on 01/29/2016 1:45:49 PM PST by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men (people) to come to the aid of their country!)
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To: Olog-hai

FUUN


6 posted on 01/29/2016 1:46:22 PM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: Little Ray

What, the communist-started UN require the reverse of abolition of the family?

No; this is a “reparations” working group. From the biggest fomenter of world racism since the end of WWII.


7 posted on 01/29/2016 1:46:29 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I got your reparations right here...


8 posted on 01/29/2016 1:46:30 PM PST by dware (Everybody wants to be a patriot, until it's time to do patriot stuff.)
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To: Olog-hai
I'll post it. You want it. You know it. The thread cries for it.


9 posted on 01/29/2016 1:46:33 PM PST by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: Olog-hai

So they would revive slavery for another group.


10 posted on 01/29/2016 1:47:03 PM PST by Truth29
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To: gaijin

I support reparations to every living former slave.


11 posted on 01/29/2016 1:47:20 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: dirtymac

The revolution never gets old to the UN. It’s always the issue, as the SDS once said.


12 posted on 01/29/2016 1:47:53 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The United States is by far the least racist country on the planet...and it’s not even close.


13 posted on 01/29/2016 1:49:02 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dware

I support reparations. First take away all the food stamps, free housing, free Obamacare, Obamaphones, etc. Then give every AA family 40 acres and a mule and tell them to support themselves.


14 posted on 01/29/2016 1:49:26 PM PST by sportutegrl
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To: Mouton
I support reparations to every living former slave.

Payable in Confederate money.

15 posted on 01/29/2016 1:49:29 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: sportutegrl

What’s funny is that if you did have reparations, white folks would get all the money back within a few years.


16 posted on 01/29/2016 1:50:21 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

There is not one descendant of slave who would be alive today if not for slavery. The genealogical chain would never ever have come together. Never. They should find a slave owner descendant and thank him. If they think that their life matters.


17 posted on 01/29/2016 1:50:33 PM PST by all the best
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18 posted on 01/29/2016 1:50:54 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Free Republic Caucus: vote daily / watch for the thread / Starts 01/20 midnight to midnight EST)
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To: Olog-hai

Why doesn’t the UN leave, move out of this hellhole? They could take their overpaid (with our money), pampered idiot staff that parks illegally and can’t receive a parking ticket, ties up traffic in Manhattan, is replete with spies, and is a creature of the Rockefeller family and other globalists who have no interest in this country other than making money off it.


19 posted on 01/29/2016 1:51:25 PM PST by laconic (M)
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To: Olog-hai

Sorry, fellas. We have decided that to continue fighting over every matter is far more enjoyable.


20 posted on 01/29/2016 1:51:29 PM PST by proxy_user
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