UN says the U.S. owes reparations to Black Americans
Our check is coming, yall
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The United States owes African-Americans reparations for slavery, a recent report by a United Nations-affiliated group said.
The UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent said that compensation is necessary to combat the disadvantages caused by 245 years of legally allowing the sale of people based on the color of their skin.
The U.N. group warned that the U.S. has not confronted its legacy of “racial terrorism.”
The report, which is non-binding, specified that reparations can come in a variety of ways, including educational opportunities, psychological rehabilitation, debt cancellation and formal apologies.
What should happen is wealth redistribution from those who can trace their wealth to the Homesteader Act tbh, debt cancellation is cool but still insufficient because it isn't enough to break the racist cycle of poverty
LOL. It should happen but like, what difference would it make? If the US gave every Black person some money, what difference would that do? The effects of slavery has already created the environment we live in today so I doubt it would change anything.
I agree with this even though I don't support the BLM movement. Doesn't the U.S. give the Native Americans a bunch of reparations for how they were slaughtered and mistreated a long time ago? African Americans deserve something too for how unfairly they were treated and still are being treated.
Good on the UN
Congress better makeithappen.mp3. Hopefully y'all get the reparations they're promising unlike the Native Americans who only got 10% of what they were promised
Won't happen. This would probably set the precedent for blacks in other countries where slavery was allowed to request the same. It's sad but us people of African descent will have to forget about receiving any kind of monetary compensation for the horrors our ancestors went through.
the Jews and native Americans got there's so why not
