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Posted on 03/31/2026 11:12:50 AM PDT by John Semmens
This week, the UN General Assembly voted to declare the transatlantic African slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity." UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said "the transatlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity that struck at the core of personhood, broke up families and devastated communities."
Ghana's President John Mahama praised the declaration, saying "we came together in solemn solidarity to affirm truth and pursue a route to healing and reparations. The adoption of this resolution serves as a safeguard against forgetting."
US ambassador to the UN Dan Negrea objected "history is replete with crimes against humanity--genocides, massacres, torture, human sacrifice, slavery--the perpetrators of which are long dead and beyond the reach of justice. Trying to declare one portion of the crime of slavery as the worst crime against humanity and hold the innocent descendants of the perpetrators liable would also be a crime. Slavery existed for thousands of years before America was discovered by Europeans. None of the people alive today in America were responsible for the crime of slavery for which the UN now seeks to extract reparations."
Professor Thomas Sowell, a descendant of slaves brought to America, pointed out that "more whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which he United States was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States."
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What about the Trans-Mediterranean slave trade of whites enslaved by arabs?
I know this I satire, but Arab slavers of white Europeans had a bigger count than all the black slaves ever brought to America.
* Uncle Miltie: Posting without reading the whole article since 1999!
“What about the Trans-Mediterranean slave trade of whites enslaved by arabs?”
What about America invented abolitionism movements in the transatlantic context?
What about that the Empire forced slavery on us?
If anybody deserves reparations, its us. But we don’t weaponize our own history to defend ourselves. Which we could easily do. And we should do.
> Uncle Miltie: Posting without reading the whole article since 1999! <
Permit me to jump in here. Once you’ve been on FR for 10+ years, you have the right to skip the excerpt before commenting. Just glance at the title, then comment any way you wish.
This might not be an official FR rule. But it is certainly is an honored tradition.
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I had ancestors come across the pond as indentured white servants. Do I get money now?
Irish?
Indentured servant only count for 50%.
Maybe their sexual orientation or other feature would entitle them to more.
How awful! But the intra-African slave trade, whereby blacks enslaved other blacks and transported them to pens on the slave coast for sale to the whites, was just peachy. Entrepreneurship, you know!
“the gravest crime against humanity.”
I’m going with the genocide against the Jewish people.
The UN is strangely quiet on this issue...
Sure, you can be a part of the problem and keep the cycle going.
Or you can weaponize our history, win the argument and put an end to the left’s madness.
I can’t figure out why the Founding Fathers and their story are so extremely unpopular that nobody wants to ever look at it and see how it can be beneficially used.
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