Posted on 08/28/2007 4:20:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
European and American countries that enslaved African people and scattered them in the African Diaspora should pay reparations for their slave crimes. This came out at the historic African Union (AU) conference in the Caribbean Island of Barbados, set to tackle the integration of the African Diaspora and the continent.
Leading scholars, ambassadors and government ministers from Africa and beyond are examining economic relations and the responsibility of the slave masters in undoing the slave trade damage they inflicted on Africa and her Diaspora.
With song and the beating of drums, the African people in the Diaspora of the Caribbean Islands, set a stage for the critical discussions on what the European and American slave masters should do for their crimes of transporting millions of Africans across the Atlantic in the infamous Transatlantic slave trade which ended 200 years ago.
Addressing the conference, South Africa's Social Development Minister Zola Skweyiya argued that the Caribbean nations are correct to demand reparations for the slave trade. Skweyiya says the countries who are responsible for slave trade must take responsibility of their actions.
Diaspora Solidarity
The African Union is leading this series of consultative conferences across the world to make a case for the sustainable economic development and integration of Africa and her diaspora. It seeks to promote greater investment and trade flows in the diaspora.
Solidarity and speaking with one voice in multi-lateral platforms is another area of focus. Secretary General of the regional block of Caribbean nations Edwin Carrington says this drive by the AU and the Caribbean will result in a huge reaffirmation of the place of Africans in the world.
Although reparations for the slave trade are a critical part of this drive for greater economic development of the African nations in the diaspora, Carrington says in the final analysis Africans will be judged by what they can do by themselves and for themselves.
The regional processes have been held in New York, London, Brasilia, Johannesburg and now the Caribbean. From the Caribbean they will move to Paris and then Ethiopia. These processes will lead to a ministerial conference in South Africa in November and then culminate to an AU African Diaspora Summit early next year.
Bullshirt. Africa has nearly a billion people. Three times as many as North America. More than are in all of Europe. More than are in the North and South American continents combined.
Not to insult you, I’m just pointing out that there’s a LOT of people on the African continent. Of course it’s geographically larger than Europe, but still...
“The famous Egyptian pyramids were built before the Hebrew were enslaved in Egypt.
And Ancient Egypt was a Hamitic nation, not Japhethic, and definitely not European.”
Jews were enslaved in Egypt, and black revisionist historians do claim that ancient Egypt was a black culture. So, according to the revisionists, blacks could owe reparations to the Jews for Egyptian slavery.
An irony of all the revisionist history of claim grabbing and responsibility shifting many like to engage in.
Don't hold yer breath!!
(As soon as we get paid back for billions paid out in Welfare; THEN we'll talk reparations!)
My Mothers Family would like reparations for being tossed out of North Africa without property.
My Fathers side needs to be paid for a series of Sicilian invasions, Romans (Italy) invasion (282BC), Barbarian Vandals (Sue the EU) (440BC), Saracen (Sue the Saudi) (827AD), French, Germans, and Spanish (Sue the EU again).
I am willing to settle for a nice fully paid five star vacation for a few months.
Modern Europe is run by a bunch muddle brains. They might give in to demands like this.
They need less corrupt government; the African gene pool is about as robust as the gene pool of the rest of the race.
This is just more UN nonsense to have all that is european derived to equal racist.
Translation: give me tribute based on my melanin content.
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