So it's pretty definitionally oppression Olympics, but I feel like the slave trade is a decent contender. It lasted centuries; maybe more depending a bunch of history that's still up in the air. The Holocaust (for example) only went on for a few years.
I'm not sure Ghana has hands as clean as they're implying, though. The victims of the transatlantic slave trade had to (ahem) leave Africa entirely, and usually it wasn't the Europeans catching and selling them on their own.
It shouldn't be the average taxpayer in these countries who has to pay for reparations (especially when many were descendants of peasants who were also often exploited in other ways), while the wealthy families who benefited the most evade responsibility, smuggling their blood-earned fortunes to tax havens.
We don't recognise any non-white responsibility in any form of slavery here
You guessed it, it's the usual map:
The EU abstained because bla bla TLDR: they don't want to pay reparations.
So Ghana proposed to punish itself and all of its neighbors for selling slaves to Europeans passing through towards Americas, or what?
It should be Haiti putting forward the motion, probably.
Why.....? Haiti's population is a fraction of Africas as a whole.
So is Ghana's. Haiti was also founded by a slave rebellion.
The US would owe several times it's worth in reparations for slavery, The War on Drugs, The destruction of the Middle East, Imperalism leading to the deaths of countless people, genocide of Native Americans, poisoning the world multiple times with chemicals, etc. The list is so long it isn't funny.
I often say if you were to list all the atrocities and lives destroyed by the US it would be more than my lifetime just to read them all off. It is mind boggling.
I'm surprised the MAGA fucks in charge of this run away derailed freight train have not switched to the Confederate government flag.
Gravest crime so far
UN - the most useless international organization by its own standards in modern human history
Somewhat a bold move for Ghana. Only a few years ago a few of their MPs were terrified of highlighting anything to do with either the Trans-Saharan or Trans-Atlantic slave trade because of the heavy involvement from some local ethnic groups in capturing, transporting, and selling slaves. Which is not honestly actuate considering the lies and economic pressure from the Europeans. Probably just turned the corner after their Year of The Return stuff was so successful.
Yeah, there's more than a whiff of revisionism going on here. Not that they're wrong about the specific issue.
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