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African diaspora wants reparations for slavery
SABC News ^ | August 28, 2007 | Thami Dickson

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 40acresandamule; abrahamlincoln; africa; africanamericans; caribbean; civilwar; extortion; kuntakintai; reaparations; roots; slavery; slavetrade
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To: Gay State Conservative
Bump.

American natives are very fortunate that they were born in this country.

61 posted on 08/28/2007 5:06:49 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I want reparations for all the welfare money that I paid in.


62 posted on 08/28/2007 5:16:39 PM PDT by freekitty (May the eagles long fly over our beautiful and free American sky.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
>"No American alive today has ever owned slaves in the US. No American alive today has ever been a slave in the US."

When you own another human being for profit? Welfare for unwed mothers????

Thnx LBJ!!!!!

63 posted on 08/28/2007 5:17:17 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Did you know that everyday mexican gays sneak into this country and unplug our brain dead ladies HJS)
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To: hosepipe
Very many European-descended people died to PRESERVE THE UNION.

Whose descendants still live in the fifty United States (including those which seceded).

64 posted on 08/28/2007 5:18:51 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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To: Old Sarge

Don’t forget the slave brokers, Muslims!
They took over the slave trade in the 7th century and were
the go-to guys if you wanted to purchase humans.
Muslims were buying slaves from tribal leaders for bit of colored glass and cloth. This was ongoing 800 years before
white men set foot in No. America.
What nitwits! Suppose they are jealous their ancestors
didn’t make it to these golden shores ?


65 posted on 08/28/2007 5:19:50 PM PDT by Duffboy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
European and American countries that enslaved African people

WRONG - They were sold into slavery by their fellow Africans. The practice continues today!
66 posted on 08/28/2007 5:26:38 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mine were emancipated in 1863 too. By the Czar.

Where’s mine?


67 posted on 08/28/2007 5:28:01 PM PDT by Kozak
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu

How many slaves did it take and how long? Either this IS Black heritage. . .or it isn’t. Cannot claim it; then escape the responsibility of having and abusing all those slaves used so unfairly to build their pyramids/!


68 posted on 08/28/2007 5:36:24 PM PDT by cricket
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I recently had my DNA checked, see here. Yup, Says I came from Africa. I want my free money, now!!
69 posted on 08/28/2007 5:39:13 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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To: toddlintown
Suggest that we agree as a nation to reparations. Reparations are legally based on damages or on restoring the damaged property to its original condition. Why not let any in the African diaspora ( a description by the way 'borrowed' from the Jewish people in the diaspora according to the Old Testament who have slave reparation claims minimally dating to the Pharaohs [pyramids] pre-Christian era, then the Babylonians (Iraq) then the Persians (Iran) followed by the Greeks and the Romans - New Testament)* choose between the value of restoration to original condition i.e., a slave to a black slave master in Africa circa 1700 or the value of damages which in any objective analysis based on today's better-offness are negative?

*How else do you get the black minstrel singing "When Moses was in Egypt land, let my people go."?

Also as a possible descendant of Egyptian slaves, I would also like to petition for 'reparations' and jump on the money train, like (forgive me) 'white on rice.'

70 posted on 08/28/2007 5:41:11 PM PDT by masadaman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My ancestors migrated here because of religious persecution. Where’s my reparations?


71 posted on 08/28/2007 5:43:09 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: cricket

“How many slaves did it take and how long? Either this IS Black heritage. . .or it isn’t. Cannot claim it; then escape the responsibility of having and abusing all those slaves used so unfairly to build their pyramids/!”

Some have even said that since some blacks claim that ancient Egypt was a black civilization, and that Jewish slaves were used to build the pyramids, then blacks should pay reparations to the Jews.

Sooner or later, everybody is due reparations.


72 posted on 08/28/2007 5:46:27 PM PDT by Will88
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Appropriate reparations, a one-way ticket to the African country of your choice.


73 posted on 08/28/2007 5:48:20 PM PDT by reg45
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, I do think the Democrat Party should pay reparations, since they were at the forefront of preserving slavery, implementing Jim Crow and opposing desegregation. Not to mention that the entire membership of the KKK was made up of Democrats.


74 posted on 08/28/2007 5:49:29 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I tell you what, blacks sure like free money.


75 posted on 08/28/2007 5:50:00 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Our first responsibility is to keep the power of the Presidency out of the hands of the Clintons.)
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To: aruanan

Wouldn’t it be ironic if it was Barack Obama’s ancestors that sold people into slavery.


76 posted on 08/28/2007 5:51:24 PM PDT by reg45
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To: Maceman

Ditto!


77 posted on 08/28/2007 5:53:25 PM PDT by reg45
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s this we’ve got now? Who’s sending billions of dollars in “aid” to whom?


78 posted on 08/28/2007 5:55:07 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Gravity! It's not just a good idea, it's the law!)
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To: kAcknor

You left out “Several trillion dollars of Great Society”.


79 posted on 08/28/2007 6:08:02 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: neverdem
Leading scholars, ambassadors and government ministers from Africa and beyond are examining economic relations and the responsibility of the original, black MUSLIM slave masters, who traded the slaves to the white devils, in undoing the slave trade damage they inflicted on Africa and her Diaspora.

Better!

80 posted on 08/28/2007 6:10:38 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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