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.
American natives are very fortunate that they were born in this country.
I want reparations for all the welfare money that I paid in.
When you own another human being for profit? Welfare for unwed mothers????
Thnx LBJ!!!!!
Whose descendants still live in the fifty United States (including those which seceded).
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 ?
Mine were emancipated in 1863 too. By the Czar.
Where’s mine?
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/!
*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.'
My ancestors migrated here because of religious persecution. Where’s my reparations?
“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.
Appropriate reparations, a one-way ticket to the African country of your choice.
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.
I tell you what, blacks sure like free money.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if it was Barack Obama’s ancestors that sold people into slavery.
Ditto!
What’s this we’ve got now? Who’s sending billions of dollars in “aid” to whom?
You left out “Several trillion dollars of Great Society”.
Better!
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