US Reparations to African Americans
Channel: UN Country Club
Date: 2016-02-03

From DemocracyNow!: A United Nations working group says the United States should consider reparations to African Americans whose ancestors were enslaved as part of trans-Atlantic slave trade. The U.N. Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent released its recommendations after spending a week meeting with African Americans across the United States, including in Baltimore, Chicago, New York City, D.C. and Jackson, Mississippi. The fact-finding mission’s chair, Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, said, "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."
The entire DemocracyNow! Program aired on Tuesday, February 2, 2016 is available here: http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2016/2/2?autostart=true