U.S. Rejects Vote to Recognize Slavery as a ‘Crime Against Humanity’ – The United Nations resolution was led by the president of Ghana. Israel and Argentina also voted against it.
Source: BertramPotts
U.S. Rejects Vote to Recognize Slavery as a ‘Crime Against Humanity’ – The United Nations resolution was led by the president of Ghana. Israel and Argentina also voted against it.
Source: BertramPotts
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Jesus fucking christ on a biscuit. How do you vote against this? What a great way to look like a shining beacon of freedom.
USA, Israel and Argentina-What is common among them?
And other countries abstained from voting
Did anyone expect a country that was built by slaves to object to slavery?
Awe man, we suck again!
This title is misleading. The resolution was to call slavery “The gravest crime against humanity”. Also called for a reparation fund to be paid to African union.
And what about the Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Persians, Romans, and basically every civilization that both enslaved others and got enslaved at some point, should we start sending invoices retroactively to all of human history too?
>The resolution, which was led by Ghana, urged U.N. member states to apologize for the slave trade and to contribute to a reparations fund.
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>“The trafficking of enslaved Africans and the centuries of racialized chattel enslavement that followed have not been resolved,” Ghana’s foreign minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, wrote before the vote. He has said that reparations should be given to “all people of African descent” and that the descendants of slaves should be given money to set up businesses and funds for education.
So this is the problem.
And to be honest I don’t see why I would need to pay for what people hundreds of years ago did in the country that I live in (which didn’t even exist in the same form as it does now), but the descendants of the people who actually enslaved their countrymen and sold them on to Europeans (and Arabs) somehow receive that money?
Remember: Africans were the biggest buyers of slaves!!
Not defending anyone who doesn’t vote for this, but before we dog pile on just these 3 countries don’t forget 52 other countries abstained from voting (including Great Britain) which is equivalent to a silent yes. I assume richer counties who benefitted from slavery the most are scared of this designation due to the potential legal ramifications of reparations.
Nearly all societies and cultures in history have had forms of slavery etched into their society. And its funny when the nation hat championed for this resolution was the naion that was one of the largest exporters of slave. White men werent the ones rounding up the slaves in afrika lol. It was all the local chieftain. Lets not even forget the untold number of Europeans that were enslaved by Muslim slave raiders
At this point I think we should all qualify for Israeli citizenship. Our tax money goes directly there and they give us our policy.
>Mr. Negrea also accused the sponsors of questioning President Trump’s support for Black voters in the United States. “President Trump has done more for Black Americans than any other president,” he said. “He’s working tirelessly to deliver for them.”
They alway so this but never give any examples of what he has done because he hasn’t done anything!
Lead by Ghana, the ones who sold the slaves in the first place.
TLDR: Reparations will never happen.
But reparations remain a wonderfully destructive wedge issue that divides the working class and only serves the elites in both the west and Africa.
African dictators gets to rabble rouse against the evil West. Russia gets to pretend it isn’t as vile an imperialist as Europeans with boats, while it recruits poor Blacks to die in their Ukraine War. And Western elites get to rouse their own poor whites.
This motion was a farce, much like much of the UN
We still have slaves today, more than ever before, so I’m not sure why that doesn’t seem to have warranted a mention.
The GOP is now just the party of pedos, racists, sexists, grifters, criminals basically the worst of the worst pieces of shit
As an American, I am beyond embarrassed.
Dude, im telling you. The people running our country, believe in slavery.
If we can’t support this, then we aren’t the land of the “free”
I guess the prison industrial complex and exploitation of migrant workers is too strong
So let me get this straight…. Chattel slavery – not a crime against humanity. I’ll bet Israel thinks the holocaust was though. I’m so tired of the world. It just doesn’t care about black people. The world seems to care so little about our feelings but won’t hesitate to benefit from the fruits of our labor.
I’m just tired.
This was such a simple thing to agree to.
I feel like this is expected, pretty much all the countries that benefited from slavery either abstained or voted no, but Argentina is an interesting one to me. I always figured the Nazis in Argentina thing was exaggerated?
What do you do about all of the same race slavery? Greece enslaved basically anyone they conquered and many other empires did too. This is recency bias.
Slavery is absolutely horrendous but this just feels like a money grab.
The country calling for this is Ghana, who was enthusiastic participant of the Gold Coast slave trade, so are they going to pay reparations as well?
Wow. New low. Congratulations MAGA.💩🤡
Color me surprised!
As a Canadian I’m embarrassed that we abstained.
The Axis of Arseholery.
Reflection of American values
Israel voting against this is rich
This timeline is awful.
How can any breathing person object to this? How? The world is turned upside down!