U.N. demands the U.S. make amends through reparations for African Americans...

[Mongoose]

JAMEY KEATEN
Mon, June 28, 2021, 3:42 AM·4 min read



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GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief, in a landmark report launched after the killing of George Floyd in the United States, is urging countries worldwide to do more to help end discrimination, violence and systemic racism against people of African descent and “make amends” to them — including through reparations.
The report from Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, offers a sweeping look at the roots of centuries of mistreatment faced by Africans and people of African descent, notably from the transatlantic slave trade. It seeks a “transformative” approach to address its continued impact today.
The report, a year in the making, hopes to build on momentum around the recent, intensified scrutiny worldwide about the blight of racism and its impact on people of African descent as epitomized by the high-profile killings of unarmed Black people in the United States and elsewhere.
“There is today a momentous opportunity to achieve a turning point for racial equality and justice,” the report said.
The report aims to speed up action by countries to end racial injustice; end impunity for rights violations by police; ensure that people of African descent and those who speak out against racism are heard; and face up to past wrongs through accountability and redress.
“I am calling on all states to stop denying — and start dismantling — racism; to end impunity and build trust; to listen to the voices of people of African descent; and to confront past legacies and deliver redress,” Bachelet said in a video statement.
While broaching the issue of reparation in her most explicit way yet, Bachelet suggested that monetary compensation alone is not enough and would be part of an array of measures to help rectify or make up for the injustices.
“Reparations should not only be equated with financial compensation,” she wrote, adding that it should include restitution, rehabilitation, acknowledgement of injustices, apologies, memorialization, educational reforms and “guarantees” that such injustices won’t happen again.
The U.N.-backed Human Rights Council commissioned the report during a special session last year following the murder of Floyd, a Black American who was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis in May 2020. The officer, Derek Chauvin, was sentenced to 22-1/2 years in prison last week.
Protests erupted after excruciating bystander video showed how Floyd gasped repeatedly, “I can’t breathe!” as onlookers yelled at Chauvin to stop pressing his knee on Floyd’s neck.
The protests against Floyd's killing and the “momentous” verdict against Chauvin are a “seminal point in the fight against racism,” the report said.
The report was based on discussions with more than 340 people — mostly of African descent — and experts; more than 100 contributions in writing, including from governments; and review of public material, the rights office said.
It analyzed 190 deaths, mostly in the U.S., to show how law enforcement officers are rarely held accountable for rights violations and crimes against people of African descent, and it noted similar patterns of mistreatment by police across many countries.
The report ultimately aims to transform those opportunities into a more systemic response by governments to address racism, and not just in the United States — although the injustices and legacy of slavery, racism and violence faced by African Americans was clearly a major theme.
The report also laid out cases, concerns and the situation in roughly 60 countries including Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Colombia and France, among others.
“We could not find a single example of a state that has fully reckoned with the past or comprehensively accounted for the impacts of the lives of people of African descent today," Mona Rishmawi, who leads a unit on non-discrimination at the U.N. human rights office, told a news conference. "Our message, therefore, is that this situation is untenable.”
Compensation should be considered at the “collective and the individual level," she said, while adding that any such process “starts with acknowledgment” of past wrongs and “it's not one-size-fits-all." She said countries must look at their own pasts and practices to assess how to proceed.
The U.N. report called on countries to make “ amends for centuries of violence and discrimination” such as through “formal acknowledgment and apologies, truth-telling processes and reparations in various forms.”
It also decried the “dehumanization of people of African descent” that was “rooted in false social constructions of race” in the past to justify enslavement, racial stereotypes and harmful practices as well as tolerance for racial discrimination, inequality and violence.
It cited inequalities faced by people of African descent and the “stark socioeconomic and political marginalization” they face in many countries, including unfair access to education, health care, jobs, housing and clean water.

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[Zulu 36]

The UN can stuff their reparations demands up their wazoo.

[advanced]

I think the un should track down the african blacks that hunted down the negro to sell to the British. At least those people had a worth ethic, the one's they sold to be sent here are all lazy and victims. Just saying.

[FoxtrotOscar]

They have already had reparations, it's called "WELFARE" for decades already...

Time to get off those collective asses and work...

Russ is correcct, it was Tribe vs Tribe and to the winners went the spoils...

[Mongoose]

The same for North American Indians. Before we came here, they were raiding each others tribes, killing the men, and taking the Women and Children as slaves. All over the U.S. they hunted each other down, mutilated and killed each other. But.....when we came and moved onto their so called land and fought for it. We were the bad guys. We committed a hideous crime for living on the land they had stole by killing other Indians who lived there. Damn, us White Men are such Azzholes......

[advanced]

Easy to understand; White is still the Big Boss Man.

[oldtop]

I wonder when the UN is going to call out the Black population for "black on black" crimes, homicide in particular.... they probably had to go back 10 years or more to get the number of "unarmed blacks" killed by white cops.... there are at least TWICE that number of unarmed blacks, including CHILDREN under 10, killed by blacks annually, but not a word about that sorry statistic ... just sayin...

[Lenny]

statistics from the beginning of this year to date....122 white people killed by cops to 71 blacks killed by cops....how come we never hear of these reports...quityour*****en,obey the law and you wont be pushing up daisies

[etakerns]

The UN has no authority, they can suck a fat d**k!!!!

[Cpl Keller]

Time to withdraw from the UN and throw all those idiots out of this country.
Let them hold their meetings in China.

[advanced]

Think of all the high rise condo's they could create from the UN building. Sure would increase the tax base. It would be a lib's paradise living at 600 UN Square. Just "imagine" it.

[Mongoose]

I think ya'll have lost touch with reality. You are shaming a race of people who built this Country. Amos and Andy are turning over in their graves. Instead of humiliating the Africans, we should be celebrating the multitude of accomplishments that have made this great Country what it is today, solely from the blood, sweat, and endurable pain of great black minds. Their commitment to rise up above and beyond the norm for the benefit of all mankind is unparalleled in the History of Homo-Sapiens. Americas Africans are a shining light in this "Dark Time" we privileged White Crackers have unleashed on our innocent Country. You White Supremacist bigots have managed to spread your radical beliefs, with a smile on your White face. You thrive on the oppression and starvation of equal rights for our black citizens. You laugh when you hear of starving blacks having to steal to provide for their loving families. All because of your egotistical White High Born Ideology. I hope Ed sees this and comments on the atrocities you have inflicted on his Black Soul. I hope ya'll can sleep well knowing what you have created .........Shame on you.........

[oldtop]

I strongly suggest that we take a lesson from the RUSSIANS and tell the UN to "pizz off and drink it", and to mind their own business to boot... I'm all for "getting US out of the UN, and getting the UN out of the US"... the organization has been taken over by "third world" countries (read majority minority countries) in any case, and we can all see what "unequaled paradises" they have made of their own countries... case n point, look at what they have done to Rhodesia and South Africa since those nations were taken over by the "minority majority"... two of the richest nations in the world are now near bankrupt pestholes where no one is safe...