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United Nations Calls On U.S. To Pay African Americans Reparations For Slavery

According to a United Nations group it’s time for the United States to pay reparations to African-American descendants of slavery, establish a national human rights commission and publicly acknowledge that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity.

You may want to sit down for this.

The “United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent” released its preliminary recommendations after more than a week of meetings with black Americans and others from around the country, including Baltimore, Chicago, New York City, the District of Columbia and Jackson, Mississippi.

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