The United States should consider reparations to African-American descendants of slavery, a United Nations working group said Friday

Associated Press
Jan. 29, 2016

By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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."

For example, 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.

"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, said they were shocked by some of the things they found and were told.

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.

Federal officials say 37 percent of the state and federal prison populations were black males in 2014. The working group suggests the U.S. implement several reforms, including reducing the use of mandatory minimum laws, ending racial profiling, ending excessive bail and banning solitary confinement.

"What stands out for me is the lack of acknowledgement of the slave trade," said Ricardo A. Sunga III, who lives in the Philippines.

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 .

The Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent was established in 2002 by the then-Commission on Human Rights, following the World Conference against Racism in 2001.

It also visited the United States in 2010, where its final report found similar problems, including blacks facing disproportionately high unemployment, lower income levels, less access to education, "problematic access to quality health-care services and the high incidence of certain health conditions, electoral disenfranchisement and structural issues in the administration of justice (in particular incarceration rates)."

The current panel will give its final findings to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva in September.

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Jesse J. Holland covers race, ethnicity and demographics for The Associated Press. Contact him at jholland @ ap.org, on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/jessejholland or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/jessejholland.

http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2016-01-29/un-working-group-suggests-us-work-on-racial-reconciliation

I will send 4 nogs to Africa and give them $25 each if they are mad about being here.

They won't be better in Africa nor will Africa be better.

STFU!!

The US has already spent $Trillions on NOGS.

Why can't niggers just learn to behave so we don't have to shoot as many?

What form of payment can we expect?
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What about children of interracial couples? If you are half black, will you get 50% of the reparations; 25% if you are 1/4 black?

of the US.

Give it up, not going to happen!
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The guy in the life jackets looks like Finn from star wars

The UN is no thing but a terrorist organization. When Trump is president I hope he pulls the US out. The middle East countries need to give every civilized country reparations for all the killing for Islam.

Fuck libs and fuck the UN!

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Why on earth would LBDI waste even ten cents buying a billboard in the areas shown?

I wonder how often those guys stop by an automated teller machine?

Hey LeRoy!! As soons I gits my reparations check we goin to Atlantic City!!!
Me an Latrina gonna party in a limo with a white chauffeur. YeeeeOOwwww!!!!

Considering most European nations and many coastal African nations were complicit in bringing slaves to America, I'm assuming they are ready to pony up some money too.

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American niggers live better than any niggers on earth.

That's the reparation faggot.

Give every black adult 1 million tax free dollars.

Within 5 years , the Jews will have 80% of that money, from selling the blacks jewelry, basketball shoes, Cadillacs, lottery tickets, booze, drugs and guns.

Reparations have already been paid in the form of untold trillions in free housing, free food, free healthcare, welfare, head start, free college ala united negro funds, affirmative action, on and on.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, niggers had it pretty good here as slaves compared to being a spearchucker living in mud huts in Africa.

Cracka gun step up wit dem repratins wen hilarry get up in da white houze

I'm leaving the country. The niggers and spics can fight over who gets the bread crumbs from their Jew overlords.