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U.S. owes black people reparations for a history of ‘racial terrorism,’ says U.N. panel

Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 7 months ago to Culture
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Huh, must be April Fools day? As soon as you head down this road, you have to make the same judgement for every group ever oppressed, which means you have Native Americans, Filipinos (yes we did some bad things there in the 20's), Irish, Italians, etc. What about the British? We beat them up a couple of times, and took their colonies away... Come to think of that, then every colonial country (80% of the world) has a claim against their former masters, and, oh yea, the Maya and Incan Indians have a really good claim against the Spanish. We haven't even begun to debate the legality of a quasi-self appointed group telling a sovereign nation they owe...But I am sure there will be lot's of lawsuits with this. If it comes to pass, I will lobby my Represenative to get back all the welfare money spent on everyone, with interest, since reparations would address that as well...what a mess...

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  • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The UN was never anything but an attempt to hold the results of WW2 in place forever with duct tape, just like the League of Nations and the Congress of Vienna before it. Like the others it will lose its relevance and dissolve in the next major war, which will be soon. (Or it will become the organization controlling one side in that war, probably not ours.)
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And China and Russia said they would not follow it, and would do what they want, ergo, useless organization. The ruling is correct, but everyone justs uses the organization for their own ends, and stonewalls it with their damn vetos. Just like our own dysfunctional crowd here.
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    THank you, and actually I do think what happened was both wrong and illegal. FDR had threatened to "pack the court" by increasing the number of judges on it, until he got his way. THat was in 1932 or 3 I think, and as I understand it, after that, he could do about anything he wanted and it was "constitutional". Many of his schemes came about after that, that the court previously had found unconstitutional. It hasn't changed since.
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  • Posted by dnr 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, actually I agree that that is correct. William was from Normandy in France which was not even the most powerful providence in France at the time.
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I heard on a radio talk show that Jefferson attemp-
    ted to free his slaves but was not allowed to be-
    cause he was in debt. (I still don't understand why
    he couldn't have paid off the debts by selling the
    land, and then have set his slaves free, however).
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  • Posted by LibertyBelle 8 years, 7 months ago
    And what about American Indian tribes' gaining
    reparations from other American Indian tribes, for
    the many wars they fought against each other?--
    This notion of holding people responsible for the crimes of their ancestors has no validity.--But what do you expect when you have an international organization which tries to get worldwide dominance? We should pull out of the
    United Nations and send it out of New York.
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    No.
    The Japanese who were American citizens were taken from their homes, their jobs, their professions and were set into what only can be called upper class concentration camps. And by upper class, I mean better than Germany's but not as good as a citizen could do for himself. If the Constitution meant anything at all, putting American citizens in such a setting is illegal, and I'm not so sure about non-citizens. And if we were being strictly fair, Native Americans probably fall into that category. But, I wasn't advocating reparations for Japanese Americans, only pointing out that as you say, there's no end to payoffs once that Pandora's box is opened.
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You are exactly correct. I feel no responsibility for anyone or anything except what I choose to own, and I did not choose this abomination.
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I am a conspiracy theorist at heart, because I do not trust that we see all that is really going on. Too many weird things for it to be chance, and this is just one of them. Too many "incidents", just like too many people die when around a Clinton.
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think it is good reason to scrap the whole mess and reclaim the building. Haven't gotten anything done by them in 80 years.
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Another one to add to the list, pretty soon we have no one who does not get reparations from someone eh?
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  • Posted by $ nickursis 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Yes, and specific Founding Fathers (Jefferson comes to mind) did have slaves, although Jefferson supposedly treated his fairly, and rumor had it he even had children through some.
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  • Posted by wiggys 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    that is the way they like it, however, the overall elite regardless of party are in cahoots to do that to each and everyone of us.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Great point...same here in the USA. Except the Demoncraps are still enslaving Black Americans and much of the younger generations of all ancestries.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 7 months ago
    It's an absurd notion-- very wrongheaded. It's weird to see the Washington Post writing about so seriously. The whole crux of the problem was people seeing themselves as members of racial identity groups. The panel calls for continuing that, continuing treating people different according to their racial identity. It's so wrong.
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  • Posted by ycandrea 8 years, 7 months ago
    And every other country in the world too! They all have enslaved people at one time or another. Totally retarded!
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  • Posted by wiggys 8 years, 7 months ago
    tell the u.n. that they have been receiving reparations for about 7 generation now through pour welfare system!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If anyone deserves reparations from the USA it is the descendants of the Japanese who were interned during WW2. Thank you, FDR.
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  • Posted by dnr 8 years, 7 months ago
    My ancestors were enslaved by William the Conqueror in 1066. Great Brittan owes me big time.
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