Posted on 03/25/2026 10:38:17 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday designated the transatlantic African slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity" despite opposition by the United States and some European countries.
In a move advocates hailed as a step towards healing and possible reparations, the resolution was adopted to applause by a vote of 123 in favour, three against and 52 abstentions.
The United States, Israel and Argentina opposed the measure while Britain and EU member states abstained.
Ghana's President John Mahama, one of the African Union's most vocal supporters of slavery reparations, was at the United Nations headquarters in New York to support the vote.
"Today, we come together in solemn solidarity to affirm truth and pursue a route to healing and reparative justice. The adoption of this resolution serves as a safeguard against forgetting," said Mahama.
Despite being non-binding, the resolution goes beyond simple acknowledgement and asks nations involved in the slave trade to engage in restorative justice.
It also highlights the legacy of slavery via "the persistence of racial discrimination and neo-colonialism" in today's society.
"The transatlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity that struck at the core of personhood, broke up families and devastated communities," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.
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None of them intend to pay a price. It is all intended to take down the West.
Does the UN mention the (Goliath) ARAB SLAVE TRADE???
"Those who allow others who ignore history to rule them are doomed."
Or in this case:
"Those who do not examine the current extensive slavery in Africa and claim that the much smaller trans-Atlantic slave trade was the worst in history are stupid beyond reckoning, and the rest of us are doomed if we allow it."
Most of the slaves were enslaved by other black people and sold.
There is still slavery in Africa and elsewhere but the UN has nothing to say about that.
U.S. out of the UN. UN out of the U.S.
Yes, Africans were the first sellers of humans for the slave trade. The western slave trade would have been minimal or nonexistent without the source of supply.
What makes the Trans-Atlantic slave trade worse than other forms of slave trading?
True. African tribes capturing their rivals and enemies and then selling them to European middlemen. The Europeans used trade goods and liquor as currency.
CC
What the Founding Fathers thought of slavery:
https://www.amren.com/news/2022/02/what-the-founders-really-thought-about-race-jared-taylor/
I doubt it.
Exactly.
The U.S. should have supported this one.
It’s not a stain on the U.S. It’s a stain on the British Empire. Very little slave trading happened from U.S. ports, it was always dominated by London, Liverpool, and Bristol “back home”.
Especially Bristol.
Nothing.
American stupidity though is that we try to shield Britain from its just desserts even though the British Empire does not even exist anymore.
Invariably the reality is that our failure to name the Empire by name for its crime of slavery means the U.S. takes the brunt and takes the blame for something it by definition did not do.
Both slavery and slave trading from 1619 to 1776-and-a-half all occurred when there was no United States in existence. Yet we get blamed anyways who cares about actual facts.
We make ourselves look guilty. The optics are enough proof to prove it. John Adams said facts are stubborn things, well narrative is even more stubborn than facts and Americans are most stubborn of all who seemingly want to get blamed for the Empire's guilt.
I for one cannot make it make sense.
What a bunch of left wing New York Times filth. This link makes The 1619 Project blush right now.
Here is a better/more in depth study of how the Founding Fathers viewed the slavery question:
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https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4172958/posts
New audiobook release: An Historical Research Respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as Slaves, as Citizens, and as Soldiers, by George Livermore
“No, this is solely a UN-money grab aimed at the West.”
That’s the problem. Every opportunity the U.S. has to re-direct the blame back to its actual guilty party, we utterly fail, miserably.
Then instead, act guilty as hell. Making everybody believe “Yup, there’s the duck”
“It walks like a duck, it quacks like a duck, that is definitely a duck”
So the world will go on continuing to believe that the U.S. invented slavery, is the source of all slavery, conducted all the slave ships, etc etc etc.
It is truly foolish activity to go quack like guilty ducks as loud as possible on a topic where you’re innocent.
And did they mention that the American Colonies were a small percentage of the slave trade vs the British and Spanish islands and countries in the Western Hemisphere?
For some reason, the American colonies seem to get tagged with the only place that slavery took place.
The oft deified Chief Sealth (name sake of Seattle) regularly went to Bainbridge and Whidbey Islands in Puget Sound to capture enemy tribes for slavery purposes in his territory on the mainland.
Thanks. Very well said
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