UN Orders Reparations Paid - Demands "Environmental Racism" Stop

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Environmental racism in Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley', must end, say UN human rights experts

United Nations News | 2 March 2021

https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1086172

Excerpt: The further industrialization of so-called "Cancer Alley" in the southern United States, known for its pollution-emitting chemical plants, should be halted according to a large group of independent UN human rights experts, who on Tuesday branded it a form of "environmental racism".

Originally dubbed "Plantation Country", Cancer Alley, which is located in the southern state of Louisiana along the lower Mississippi River where enslaved Africans were forced to labour, serves as an industrial hub, with nearly 150 oil refineries, plastics plants and chemical facilities.  

The ever-widening corridor of petrochemical plants has not only polluted the surrounding water and air, but also subjected the mostly African American residents in St. James Parish to cancer, respiratory diseases and other health problems.

"This form of environmental racism poses serious and disproportionate threats to the enjoyment of several human rights of its largely African American residents, including the right to equality and non-discrimination, the right to life, the right to health, right to an adequate standard of living and cultural rights", the experts said.

The UN experts also sounded the alarm over possible violations of cultural rights, as at least four ancestral burial grounds are at serious risk of being destroyed by the planned construction.

"The African American descendants of the enslaved people who once worked the land are today the primary victims of deadly environmental pollution that these petrochemical plants in their neighbourhoods have caused", they said. 

"We call on the United States and St. James Parish to recognize and pay reparations for the centuries of harm to Afro-descendants rooted in slavery and colonialism."

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When the Day of the Rope comes, it wont be just our local politicians that'll be swinging. We've got a world to take back ... 


U.N. Chief Demands Slavery Reparations After 'Generations of Discrimination'

Simon Kent | Brietbart (USA) | 27 March 2024

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/03/27/u-n-chief-demands-slavery-reparations-after-generations-of-discrimination

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres has declared reparations are due now to compensate for the trans-Atlantic slave trade as a way to tackle "its legacy" in today's society, including "systemic racism and white supremacy."

In a statement to mark the U.N. International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery, the veteran Portuguese Socialist said past colonial powers "laid the foundations for a violent discrimination system based on white supremacy that still echoes today.

"Descendants of enslaved Africans and people of African descent are still fighting for equal rights and freedoms around the world. Today and every day, we reject the legacy of this horrific crime against humanity.

"[...] We call for reparatory justice frameworks to help overcome generations of exclusion and discrimination."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfvf2ub_A0U

In September, a U.N. report suggested countries should consider financial reparations to compensate for slavery.

"This is the movement that will signal, finally, the collective victory of humanity, of good over evil," Hilary Beckles, chair of the reparations commission of the Caribbean Community political and economic union, or Caricom, said at the U.N. General Assembly.

The Caricom reparations commission was set up to seek reparations, including debt cancellations and support to tackle public health crises, from former colonial powers such as the United Kingdom, France and Portugal.

The demand for financial reparations has also been heard in the United States.

Boston, Massachusetts, Christian leaders have called on "white churches" to dole out millions of dollars in reparations to black people to rectify their history with slavery.

"We call sincerely and with a heart filled with faith and Christian love for our white churches to join us and not be silent around this issue of racism and slavery and commit to reparations," Reverend Kevin Peterson said at a recent event at Resurrection Lutheran Church, as Breitbart News reported.

Verene Shepherd, Director of the Centre for Reparation Research at the University of the West Indies said it was time for "Britain and other former and current colonial powers to own up to their responsibility."

https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1655197733269938177