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~ The aim of #RCT is to provide people a process for changing how they've been taught to think and behave patriarchy which fosters inequality, i.e., classism, sexism, and racism to thinking matriarchy which fosters equity. The 12 step process, if followed, has been proven to begin to change how one thinks and behaves in 90 days. To promote permanent change, THIS 12 step program includes New Way of Thinking (#NWTC) classes to correct the lies patriarchy has spread around the world. The 12-18 month classes include 1) Understanding the two primary global cultures, matriarchy and patriarchy (#UMPC), 2) Understanding the system of racism/white supremacy (#USRwS), and 3) Pre-Columbus-colonial African History (#PCAH).

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UN Has Spoken, The US Owes Black Reparations

10 Thursday Mar 2016

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UN Committee Urges US Government to Pay Reparations for Slavery

Published time: 1 Feb, 2016 22:43
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A terra-cotta statue of a child slave inside the main house at the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana © Edmund Fountain
A terra-cotta statue of a child slave inside the main house at the Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana © Edmund Fountain / Reuters
A United Nations panel of human rights activists has urged the United States’ government to pay reparations to the descendants of Africans who were brought to the US as slaves. The committee blamed slavery for the plight of African-Americans today.

The UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent’s preliminary report follows a year of aggravated racial tensions in the United States that saw the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, whose members rally against the deaths of unarmed black men like Eric Garner and Michael Brown.

Mireille Fanon Mendes-France, the chairwoman of the committee, drew parallels between the police killings in the United States and racist lynchings that occurred in the South until the civil rights era.

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“Contemporary police killings and the trauma it creates are reminiscent of the racial terror lynchings in the past,” Mendes-France told reporters. “Impunity for state violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”

The committee released its preliminary recommendations on Friday after an 11-day fact-finding mission in the US, meeting with black Americans and others in different cities across the country.

Speaking at a press conference in Washington, DC, the group said that Congress should pass the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, establish a national human rights commission and publicly acknowledge that the Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity.

Mendes-France, who is the daughter of leading black intellectual Frantz Fanon, said that the group was “extremely concerned about the human rights situation of African-Americans,” according to AP.

“The colonial history, 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,” she continued.

While reparations are often envisioned in the United States as individual payments of cash, Mendes-France, a French woman, told Vice that she does not favor such a method. Instead, she recommended that the money be spent for the “full implementation of special programs based on education, socioeconomic, and environmental rights.”

The group will not release a full report of its findings until a September meeting of the UN Human Rights Council, but a preliminary statement said that issues such as mass incarceration and police brutality are proof that there is “structural discrimination” in the United States.

“Despite substantial changes since the end of the enforcement of Jim Crow and the fight for civil rights, ideology ensuring the domination of one group over another continues to negatively impact the civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of African-Americans today,” the report said. “The persistent gap in almost all the human development indicators, such as life expectancy, income and wealth, level of education and even food security… reflects the level of structural discrimination that creates de facto barriers for people of African descent to fully exercise their human rights.”

While the group criticized a lack of strict gun control and the implementation of stand-your-ground laws in many states, they praised initiatives such as the Affordable Care Act, which they say allowed 2.3 million black people to get health insurance.

However, the panel said that “despite the positive measures…the Working Group is extremely concerned about the human rights situation of African-Americans.” Despite legislative work to change mandatory minimum sentencing for nonviolent drug crimes, the committee said that the war on drugs has led “to mass incarceration that is compared to enslavement, due to exploitation and dehumanization of African-Americans.”

In 2008, the House of Representatives successfully voted to apologize for slavery and the Jim Crow laws that followed, and a year later the Senate passed its own apology bill as well. However, the two chambers of Congress could not agree on wording that would prevent the government from being liable for future reparations lawsuits, preventing the bill from ever reaching the president’s desk.

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Preparations: America Owes African Americans

03 Thursday Mar 2016

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Tuesday, February 02, 2016 | 4:09 PM

U.N. Panel Says African-Americans are Owed Reparations

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        Mireille Fanon Mendes-France, Frantz Fanon’s Daughter

The U.N. Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent are urging that the U.S. government give reparations to African-American descendants of slavery, reports theAssociated Press.

The recommendations, which came after members of the panel met with Black community members in major U.S. cities, said that government officials should acknowledge that the slave trade was a crime against humanity. 

“The colonial history, 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 the people of African descent,” committee chair Mireille Fanon Mendes-France wrote in the group’s finding.

The group found that recent police killings and violence against Black Americans have stemmed from post-Civil War racial tensions. Notably, none of the committee members were from the United States, but they all expressed outrage at the lack of acknowledgement from the U.S. government.

“Contemporary police killings and the trauma it creates are reminiscent of the racial terror lynchings in the past,” Mendes-France said at a press conference. “Impunity for state violence has resulted in the current human rights crisis and must be addressed as a matter of urgency.”

The group recommended that the U.S. require House representatives to study slavery and consider branding reparations.

 

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The United Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent

28 Thursday Jan 2016

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The United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent in DC at Union Temple Baptist Church 1/27/16…last night

…to Hear From Us  on the plight of Black folk in DC…and the mothers of killed Black boys spoke…among others…

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Mireille Fanon-Mendes France, dauthter of Franz Fanon

 

 
The Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent was established in 2002 by the Commission on Human Rights resolution 2002/68:

(a) To study the problems of racial discrimination faced by people of African descent living in the diaspora and, to that end, gather all relevant information from Governments, non-governmental organizations and other relevant sources, including through the holding of public meetings with them;

(b) To propose measures to ensure full and effective access to the justice system by people of African descent;

(c) To submit recommendations on the design, implementation and enforcement of effective measures to eliminate racial profiling of people of African descent;

(d) To make proposals on the elimination of racial discrimination against Africans and people of African descent in all parts of the world;image

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…crying as mothers speak of ‘police slain’ sons…

(e) To address all the issues concerning the well-being of Africans and people of African descent contained in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action;

(f) To elaborate short-, medium- and long-term proposals for the elimination of racial discrimination against people of African descent, bearing in mind the need for close collaboration with international and development institutions and the specialized agencies of the United Nations system to promote the human rights of people of African descent through, inter alia, the following activities:

(i) Improving the human rights situation of people of African descent by devoting special attention to their needs through, inter alia, the preparation of specific programmes of action;
(ii) Designing special projects, in collaboration with people of African descent, to support their initiatives at the community level and to facilitate the exchange of information and technical know-how between these populations and experts in these areas;
(iii) Liaising with financial and developmental institutional and operational programmes and specialized agencies of the United Nations, with a view to contribute to the development programmes intended for people of African descent by allocating additional investments to health systems, education, housing, electricity, drinking water and environmental control measures and promoting equal opportunities in employment, as well as other affirmative or positive measures and strategies within the human rights framework.

In 2014, with resolution 27/25, the Human Rights Council further extended the mandate of the Working Group for three years.

Methods of Work
In the fulfilment of its mandate, the Working Group:

Holds two annual sessions
Undertakes Country visits
Responds to information and allegations received concerning its mandate under the Communications procedure
Reports to United Nations Human Rights Council and the General Assembly on activities relating to the mandate

 

 

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