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United Nations: Time to leave the U.S.

Here we go again. The United Nations “Working Group” and their “experts’ now say that we owe black Americans reparations for the actions of our forefathers from 6 generations ago.

Slavery was a crime against humanity 150 years ago. Why isn’t the U.N. dealing with the ongoing slavery and the genocide happening around the world now? Why aren’t they doing an investigation on the nations that brought slavery here: the Spanish, the British, the French, the Belgians, and the Dutch?They are the ones that profited from it. Why isn’t this panel of “experts” trying to reach into those nations’ pockets for reparations.

Speaking of debts owed: Why doesn’t the U.N. start paying back the money owed to this country? You may send a group in to a country but they do little to resolve issues.

The only reparations this country owes would be to the surviving Japanese families who were interred during World War 2.

This story was originally published October 3, 2016 at 3:25 PM with the headline "United Nations: Time to leave the U.S.."

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