The landmark resolution calls for an apology and contributions to a reparations fund, without specifying an amount.

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.

  • MasterNerd@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Africa and Europe were jointly involved in the trade. Yet it is also true that Europe dominated the connection, vastly enlarged the slave trade, and continually turned it to European advantage and to African loss.

    Pretty much exactly what I’ve been arguing?

      • MasterNerd@lemmy.zipEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        In case the usual suspects show up, raining charges of racism on my head, I shall leave them with two quotations, not from black writers (who may be presumed to have a “racial axe” to grind) but from a white writer (who would have nothing racial to gain by not telling the truth).

        They were using those 2 quotes to further drive home their point, not debunk them. It’s not my fault you have awful reading comprehension