Biden Appointee Calls Upon the United Nations to Act to Secure Reparations and End the “Continuation

[Elderberry]

JONATHAN TURLEY 6/4/2023

Biden Appointee Calls Upon the United Nations to Act to Secure Reparations and End the “Continuation of Slavery” in the United States

Howard Law Professor Justin Hansford addressed the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent last week and called for the establishment of a United Nations Reparations Tribunal that could order the payment of reparations to African Americans.

Professor Hansford objected that white lawyers and politicians have been allowed to control this debate in the United States for too long:

    But so far we have left it to the scholars of the past, the lawyers of the past, the white scholars, white lawyers, to determine the bounds of our legal imagination, to determine the narrow structures that we will use to determine what justice looks like for our own people.

    So I come to you today with a novel proposal, that we begin to think our own thoughts, propose our own vision of justice, and implement that justice, as part of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent.

It is not clear what Professor Hansford meant when he suggested that a  United Nations program for reparations should not only be crafted but “implemented” by people of color.

Professor Hansford notes in his address that the United Nations previously recognized the need for reparations for victims of racism and cultural genocide.

More: https://jonathanturley.org/2023/06/04/biden-appointee-and-law-professor-calls-on-the-united-nations-to-compel-reparations-and-to-end-the-continuation-of-slavery-in-the-united-states/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2TBCBctmts&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fjonathanturley.org%2F&feature=emb_imp_woyt

[Kamaji]

WTF?!?!?

[mystery-ak]

 June 4, 2023 8:00pm EDT
Biden appointee calls on UN to create reparations tribunal: 'What justice looks like in the 21st century'
Justin Hansford spoke at the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent
By Ashley Carnahan | Fox News

A Howard University law professor called on the United Nations to set up a reparations tribunal and explore options to offer some type of "justice" to Black Americans for slavery. 

Justin Hansford, a Biden administration appointee to the UN Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD), made the comments at the PFPAD’s 2nd session last week.

Hansford said Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s "I Have A Dream" speech lays out the argument for reparations, but the speech has been "distorted, sanitized and drained of its true radical vision."

"Despite that, I believe we can now safely say that Dr. King's assertion that the U.S. Constitution was a promissory note, which came back marked insufficient funds for its Negro citizens, was both accurate and ominous. The truth is, Dr. King believed in reparations. He called for it explicitly up until the last speech of his life. The promissory note, the check that he demanded, according to the terms of the U.S. Constitution, was never cashed. And 60 years ago, until today, the wealth gap between African Americans and White Americans remains exactly the same," he said in the May 30 address.

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-appointee-calls-un-create-reparations-tribunal-justice-looks-like-21st-century

   

[Fishrrman]

NO.

The answer is... NO !!!

[Hoodat]

I vote 'Yes'.  The only question left remaining is 'How much money should the Democrat Party have to pay?'

[Mod5]

Merged.

[Free Vulcan]

In terms of history, ethnicity and the world stage, black slavery is but a sliver of the whole. These insular and myopic woke black supremacists are literally leveraging their singular experience to elevate their race to the top of the caste system and loot the treasuries of the world using the same old tired Marxist oppressed/oppressor drivel.

The grift continues on to the international stage.

[christian]

THE SOCIALIST COMMUNIST DEMOCRAT PACT are lock-stepping, no matter what, demand and keep on spending, whatever it takes.
They want America just as broke as the NAPSD in Germany lst Century, it ended in a World wide war II.

Those that refuse to learn the lessons of History are doomed to repeat them.

[Kamaji]

In terms of history, ethnicity and the world stage, black slavery is but a sliver of the whole. These insular and myopic woke black supremacists are literally leveraging their singular experience to elevate their race to the top of the caste system and loot the treasuries of the world using the same old tired Marxist oppressed/oppressor drivel.

The grift continues on to the international stage.