This vision you have of the US was only true of a subset of the population that ensured no other populations of people could achieve, this isn't remotely true for the vast majority of the US, unless you are (probably) of the sentiment that the vast majority of Americans are lazy and unproductive.
A formal apology: The entire world has apologized since forever.The reparations could come in a variety of forms, according to the panel, including "a formal apology, health initiatives, educational opportunities ...*psychological rehabilitation, technology transfer and financial support, and debt cancellation."
Educational opportunities: They already get admissions over people with merit by virtue of being black.
Financial support: Many already get welfare and section 8.
More sweeping generalizations from the soothsayer. Who are you to say how the life of a human beings who wasn't enslaved 400 years ago would be worse off? Who are you to say that subtracting the slave trade from the history of Africa wouldn't change the course of history for the continent?
Why are they in the criminal justice system in the first place? Are black people mostly innocent and being fitted up for crimes, or are they criminals that got caught?
They live in shit areas, that is a shit area issue, it affects poor white areas as well.quasi redlining due to the depressed nature of real estate in historically black neighborhoods make higher net worths impossible to achieve unless white gentrification, underperforming schools due to low property taxation
So they fuck up themselves and that is the fault of others? You can't blame someone else if you are on drugs or a criminal.high rates of incarceration make it harder to be gainfully employed, high rates of drug abuse, criminal activity due to lack of economic investment and business activity in the area.
No it isn't, you don't have to be a millionaire to have succeeded. Having a comfortable lifestyle is qualification enough and that is available to everybody in the US, if they are willing to work at it.
There are exceptions, mentally or physically disabled people for instance, but most black people are neither of those as far as I am aware.
What about reparations for black on black killings and gang warfare? Reparations for black trespasses against other races?
Honest question, why is the UN focusing time and effort on something that will never happen?
I thought the United Nations has real issues to deal with. Thinking the US would ever pay reparations to humans that dont exist anymore is laughable. I actually LoLed at the thread and thought it was going to be one of those misquote bashings from Orlong.
The UN never does anything of worth for the people of western civilization.
But it's not. The vast majority of people living in the United States have access to clean running water, food, some kind of basic healthcare, and at least the opportunity to find a job and be secure.
Africa is the opposite of that. I'm not agreeing with either of you, but to say that people living in the United States aren't better off than the vast majority of people living on the African continent is being deliberately obtuse. And you aren't that way normally.
The issue of reparations is beyond bullshit. It's a nonviable argument that would never see reality in the United States.
Likewise, the racial divide in this country is a continual and increasingly difficult problem. But slavery reparations would not come close to solving it.
Wonder how much all those African nations are going to owe black people for starting slavery.
WORLD POPULATION
U.S pop 318.2 million,Mexico pop 122.3 million ,Russia 143.5 million S.K 50.22 million China 1.357 billion ,United Kingdom 64.1 million, Europe "as a whole" 742.5 million, Canada 35.16 million, South America 387.5 million,Africa 1.111 billion , Middle east 205 Million , Asia "not counting china" 3.009 B ,Greenland 56k,, Iceland 323k, S/N pole 1k-5k/2k
Pay attention to the fact that how long ago slavery was and people think they should get money or a reward of some kind. If for some goddamn someone decided to move forward, this wouldn't be a one and done. Every generation afterward would demand money for not being a slave.
This is one of the funniest parts.