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.
my mother’s 3/4 american indian.
where’s my take?
Mine died fighting to free the slaves. Where are my reparations?
My daughter’s dog is a Chinese Pug. What about reparations for little Dauphnie from the British?
I have an idea. Let’s offer United States citizenship to all slaves and their descendants who were either brought here or born here. That should be reparations enough.
dream on losers!
I waste my time having to put up with this cr@p. Where’re my reparations?
Oh, and let’s free the slaves and make slavery illegal too.
Hey AU, you’ll get nothing and you’ll like it.
Will they go after their own tribal leaders who sold their own people into slavery?
Oh, there’s not enough money there?
I understand...
There, fixed it.
Haha! I think we did that about 140 years ago, didn’t we? IIRC former slaves were also promised “40 acres and a mule” weren’t they? Well, most of Alaska is Federal land...
Yeah, well, people in hell want ice water. They should read this link and think about it.
I have a four word response...
Just gimme, gimme, GGGGGGGGIIIIIIIMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEE!
Send the bill to the Arabs.
To the members of the “African Diaspora” demanding “Reparations”: GLMF! (Good luck my friends)
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
yaright
Where's my take??
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