The 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.
Countries like the UK have long rejected calls to pay reparations, saying today’s institutions cannot be held responsible for past wrongs.
There is no need for racism to enable modern exploitation. Most western countries exploit their own citizens. Neocolonialism is driven by profit maximization, geopolitical realism and capitalism. See Soviet economic imperialism and china belt and road initiative. Race was a moral justification in the past. It is not needed anymore.
not nearly to the same extent. yall not working majority 6-7 day weeks and 12-14 hour days.
and justified by racism. ask the average usian why is south america poor, or the average european why is africa poor and they will come up with all sorts of racism over imperialism.
shit, this thread is a good example. i wish western colonialism was summed up by just selling us shit like you imply here with the allusion to china.
(actually, i wish you stopped trying to justify all the murder and poverty you keep making happen, but what do i know i’m just a person on the other end of your murderous rampage)
I do nothing to you. The “shit” my country is doing to you is probably buying raw material on the market and selling high-value manufactured good. The same that China does, so I do not understand what do you mean by “allusion”. The other “shit” my country does is brain drain allowing migrants from your country to mine. And in the end billions of euros every years go from my country to your as remittances, foreign aid and investment. Details depends on the country.
Full of people in the US that work 6-7 days 12-14 hours a day an still live in poverty. That is not about how much money a country has, but the labor laws.
take responsibility for once. stop trying to compare you and the us to the conditions of exploited third world countries you know absolutely nothing about. a fraction of usians are seeing a fraction the consequences of not caring about what they do to us for a century.
what a joke. you lobby hard to destroy our economy and environment then pretend sending few millions to the corrupt politicians you propagandized into power for just that is anything but bribery.
fuck you and your country. i’m done talking to fascists.
How, please explain. How. You do not even know what my country is. You are just spreading lies because of your bias
my brother in christ, how does europe keep africa economically stunted? how does the us keep south america submissive?
do you literally not know you force them onto your own currency, or keep bombing or sanctioning the fuck out of us if we refuse to follow your shitty rules that keeps us down, or is that just fascist dissimulation?
is the fact your globally-reaching openly nazi media willingly spreading fascist rhetoric and shadowbanning any antifascism worldwide not a clue at all?
You do not know what my country is, I do not know what your country is, but rest assured you are not using my currency. You are just asserting vague lies.
way to steer us back off subject, i guess it’s really just fascist dissimulation.
you could literally look up the things i said. quote me where i lied about anything here.
there. But I need to know your country to be sure. Are you iranian?