The Philadelphia Tribune is reporting that the United Nations Working Group of Experts On People of African Descent are finally calling out the United States on slavery reparations. They have come to an agreement that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity and urge this country to establish a national human rights commission and publicly acknowledge this trauma.
The group spent more than a week engaging with Black Americans from cities such as Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York just to name a few. In the report, the chair of the working group, Mireille Fanon Mendes-France of France, said that they found themselves to be “extremely concerned about the human rights situation of African-Americans” once they deliberated. “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.”
Mendes-France continued to compare the ways by which unarmed black men have more recently been murdered to lynchings of black men in southern states, post-Civil War. “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.”
This is all great news, considering this group was just started in 2002. Still, there’s no doubt that more needs to be done and now that these people are aware of socio-economic problems and racism in the U.S., they’re working diligently to eliminate them! To start, they’ll begin suggesting changes to improve human rights such as “establishing a national human rights commission, ratifying international human rights treaties, asking Congress to study slavery and its aftereffects and considering reparations.”
Let’s chat, Roommates! This is good news even though #theylate.
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Source: http://m.phillytrib.com/metros/u-n-panel-suggests-slavery-reparations-in-u-s/article_3f4a7074-e9d0-52db-8509-2a456bd993d5.html?mode=jqm
