https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg06q36052oThe United Nations General Assembly has voted to recognise the enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity", a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice.The resolution - proposed by Ghana - called for this designation, while also urging UN member states to consider apologising for the slave trade and contributing to a reparations fund. It does not mention a specific amount of money.The proposal was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against - the United States, Israel and Argentina.Fifty-two countries abstained, including the United Kingdom and European Union member states.Countries like the UK have long rejected calls to pay reparations, saying today's institutions cannot be held responsible for past wrongs.Unlike UN Security Council resolutions, those from the General Assembly are not legally binding, though they carry the weight of global opinion."Let it be recorded that when history beckoned, we did what was right for the memory of the millions who suffered the indignity of the slave trade and those who continue to suffer racial discrimination," Ghana's President John Mahama told the assembly ahead of the vote.''The adoption of this resolution serves as a safeguard against forgetting. It also challenges the enduring scars of slavery,'' he said.Earlier, his foreign minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, told the BBC's Newsday programme: "We are demanding compensation - and let us be clear, African leaders are not asking for money for themselves."We want justice for the victims and causes to be supported, educational and endowment funds, skills training funds."The campaign for reparations has gained significant momentum in recent years - "reparatory justice" was the African Union's official theme for 2025 and Commonwealth leaders have jointly called for dialogue on the matter.
>>1500580>United States, Israel and ArgentinaI wonder (((why)))
Between 1500 and 1800, around 12-15 million people were captured in Africa and taken to the Americas where they were forced to work as slaves. It is estimated that over two million people died on the journey.The resolution, backed by the African Union and the Caribbean Community, states that the consequences of slavery persist in the form of racial inequalities and underdevelopment "affecting Africans and people of African descent in all parts of the world".Ablakwa told the BBC: "Many generations continue to suffer the exclusion, the racism because of the transatlantic slave trade which has left millions separated from the continent and impoverished."Ahead of the vote, speaker after speaker expressed similar views.The UK, one of the major powers involved in the transatlantic slave trade, said it recognised the untold harm and misery that had been caused to millions of people over many decades.But its ambassador to the UN, James Kariuki, told the assembly in his speech that the resolution was problematic in terms of its wording and international law."No single set of atrocities should be regarded as more or less significant than another," he said.The US's ambassador to the UN made similar points during his speech, saying his country "does not recognise a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred".In addition, Dan Negrea said the US objected to the "cynical usage of historical wrongs as a leverage point to reallocate modern resources to people and nations who are distantly related to the historical victims".Ghana, one of the main gateways for the transatlantic slave trade, has long been a leading advocate for reparations.Forts, where tens of thousands of enslaved Africans were once held under inhuman conditions, remain standing along the West African country's coast.
>>1500580How does it make sense for Africans to get restitution/reparations for the transatlantic slave trade? They sold the bodies.Wouldn’t this only apply to the decedents of those slaves? The Blacks of the americas?
>AYO GIBS ME DAT MONEY WHITEYDo Africans realize that they were the ones capturing, enslaving and selling other africans as slaves?The slave trade was abolished by Europeans. Africans wanted to keep it going.
>>1500580The UN has just ended any sort of feasibility existing they once had.
>>15005801.Capitalist destruction of Earth is the greatest crime against humanity 2.capitalist exploitation of workers and killing them at a younger age because of health problems is second greatest crime 3. Stalin type communism is #3.4. Humans exploiting other humans by selling them a slaves and using them as slaves, irregardless of color
>>1500626Capitalism succeeds if the country is white like America
>>1500580Do Muslims pay compensation?
>>1500580>three against - the United States, Israel and Argentina.What.A.Suprise!!
>>1500602>The US has just ended any sort of feasibility existing they once had.*ftfy
>>1500580>trump votes in favor of slaveryClassic
>>1500580UN tackling the tough current issues here.>1865 was only 160 years ago!!!
>>1500583The US fear reparations. Israel voted with them because they’re gay like that, and Argentina fear US economic pressures. It’s telling that they couldn’t get more countries to vote against it
>>1500641How did you know Argentina would vote this way?
>>1500585>Wouldn’t this only apply to the decedents of those slaves?Probably. And who would have to pay
>>15006261, 2, 4 could easily be 1(a)(b)(c)
Okay, but what about the modern slave trade? The last legal slave was freed in living memory, and less than legal slaves are still a roaring trade in places like Dubai. Is it because they're mostly street shitters now so nobody cares? Or is it because those places that still use slaves are glitzy and glamorous?
>>1500580The first stops on their list of who owes reparations: Africa andthe middle east>>1500588Africans ARE keeping it going - there are slave markets right now in Africa
>>1500733and there are concentrations camps being constructed in america. what's your point
>>1500735No there aren't, retard.
>>1500735go back to pol... ffs retard
>>1500735I'm the third shill who proves your point by getting mad at you!
>>1500735There’s more slavery in America, in the prisons
>>1500580>a move advocates hope will pave the way for healing and justice.AKA: reparationsGet in line muthafuckas, I'm still waiting on my reparations check from Mongolia! Now how much is 40 acres and a mule at 5% interest compounded monthly from 1242 AD?
>>1500583All the White people voted no or abstained (along with a few others, like based Japan) because they don't want to get roped into endless "reparations" like Germany is still paying the Jews.
>>1500584>Between 1500 and 1800, around 12-15 million people were captured in Africa and taken to the Americas where they were forced to work as slaves.The Muslims had been enslaving Blacks long before that (and still do). Let them pay the reparations.
>>1500580/pol/ admin, what do you expect?
>>1500797but what about your fake job
>>1500715UN being UN, i guess
>>1500797Arabs were smart to castrate their African slaves.
>>1500715Africans are such a fucking joke. There's even a campaign backed by multiple african governments to make Africa appear bigger on maps https://www.npr.org/2025/08/21/nx-s1-5508358/mercator-map-africa
>>1500854Peters projection is a better standard and it’ll make Greenland look smaller which will be better for peace between the US and civilisation
