Howard University Prof Calls on United Nations to Order Reparations Payments in the United States
“Professor Hansford objected that white lawyers and politicians have been allowed to control this debate in the United States for too long”
Even if the U.N. decided to get involved here – a ridiculous notion, where is the money going to come from?
Professor Jonathan Turley writes at his blog:
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.
The speech to the United Nations is part of growing calls for action on reparations after years of study and proposals. As task forces in states like California have issued recommendations for payments, the demands are presenting a challenge for Democratic politicians who have long campaigned on such payments as a moral imperative. That bill has now come due but politicians like California Gov. Gavin Newsom have sought to pivot away from demands from his own Reparations Task Force for massive payments.
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“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.”
They’re going to hand out maps of jewelry and Apple Stores… and hammers.
an alleged professor with no authority (among other glaring shortcomings) makes demands of an international organization with no authority
Me. Hanford: shut up.
Slavery is a problem in the world today. Fifty million people were living in modern slavery in 2021 according to the latest estimates. Many of them children living in worse conditions than any slaves ever lived in North America.
Something ought to be done. That’s what the UN is for, right?
If you were an American enjoying all the freedoms that we have today and were a descendant of a slave and you would be concerned about others who are still in slavery, right? You would want to work to free them, right?
“Hell, no! All I care about is myself. And I want the UN to order reparations right now!”.
F*&k the United Nations. They do not totally dictate to the U.S. yet.
The UN has no such power