You May Have To Pay African Americans For Slave Reparations At the beginning of this year, we learned that the United Nations demanded that the United States pay reparations for its history of slavery. That demand is all too frequent these daysand its absolutely absurd. This laughable organization which has removed the veil and now openly flaunts its hatred of America and Israel allowed a panel of its human rights activists to identify slavery as the root cause of the plight of African-Americans today, Derrick Wilburn commented. Mireille Fanon Mendes-France, chairwoman of the panel, even went as far as to draw parallels between the police killings in the USA and lynchings. Contemporary police killings and the trauma it creates are reminiscent of the racisl terror lynchings in the past, Mendes-France commented. This is one of many claims that are similarly ridiculous. Take for instance, Mickey Fearn, a deputy director in Obamas National Park Service, and his comment that black people dont visit national parks because the associate the trees with slaves being lynched by their masters. Alcee Hastings also added that African-Americans have felt unwelcome and even fearful in federal parklands during our nations history. These are trees, people. As Wilburn points out, there is a lot more to the story. Before becoming the United States of America we were colonies of a nation ruled by a king who was earning a mint via involvement in the slave trade, he commented. His empire, influence and fortune were immense as a result of peddling human beings. His edict to the colonists was, England is a slave nation, therefore YOU will be a slave colony. Period. Like it or die. And it was the colonists who determined that no human being should own another. They ultimately decided that this was a practice that needed to end. Our nation fought ruthlessly in a civil war to free African Americans. The casualties were enormoussomewhere north oftwo hundred thousand. They went to war in conditions wed consider barbaric to live in alone engage in hand-to-hand warfare, all to secure the freedom of Africans-in-America, Wilburn concludes. Yes, America has a racist past. But if slavery is the only half of the story you know, acknowledge, dwell on or think youre missing the other half. The most important half. What do you think of Wilburns comments? Do you agree? 