The United States voted against a United Nations resolution this week to formally recognize the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity.”
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.
On Tuesday, before the vote, John Mahama, the president of Ghana, said that American schools were being discouraged from teaching about slavery and racism. He called the resolution “a safeguard against forgetting.”
Policy groups, human rights organizations and academics have accused President Trump of minimizing Black history in the United States. He has accused the Smithsonian Institution of focusing too much on “how bad slavery was” and not enough on the “brightness.” He has signed executive orders on education that called for the end of “radical indoctrination in K-12 schooling” and criticized the teaching of subjects such as “white privilege.”
The African Union has declared 2026 to 2035 the Decade of Action on Reparations, and Ghana, which has among the most slave forts and castles in the world, is leading the charge.
Many slave ships departed from the Ghanaian coast during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Ghana has encouraged people with African ancestry to seek citizenship in the country. A 2019 initiative invited those of African descent to live and work in Ghana as part of a right to return campaign meant to connect people in the African diaspora to their ancestral roots.
“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.
Dan Negrea, a U.S. representative to the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council, called the U.N. resolution “highly problematic” on Wednesday and objected to its “attempt to rank crimes against humanity in any type of hierarchy.”
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.”
The United States, Israel and Argentina were the only nations to vote against the resolution, which was adopted.
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According to the article, the US, Israel and Argentina voted against a United Nations resolution this week to formally recognize the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity”, which would have urged U.N. member states to apologize for the slave trade and to contribute to a reparations fund.
According to the article, *Dan Negrea, a U.S. representative to the U.N.’s Economic and Social Council, called the U.N. resolution “highly problematic” on Wednesday and objected to its “attempt to rank crimes against humanity in any type of hierarchy.”*
Also, 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.”
Just read an article about Ghana and noticed that it said that he was going to push a resolution and this is the result
Edit:
According to Reuters’s UN adopts Ghana’s slavery resolution, defying resistance from US, Europe,
*At a U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) vote, 123 countries supported the resolution, which is not legally binding but carries political weight, while three opposed it, including the U.S. and Israel, and 52 abstained, including the European Union and Britain.*
Meme UN resolution like almost all UN resolutions.
The US should not pay reparations for slavery when the slave trade ended over 200 years ago.
>Mr. Negrea also accused the sponsors of questioning President Trump’s support for Black voters in the United States.
I can’t keep track of all these interchangeable, faceless bootlickers anymore. We need some sort of taxonomy.
I don’t appreciate that the headline mischaracterizes the resolution.
It specifically singles out the transatlantic slave trade only as the gravest crime against humanity and suggests that the US should pay towards a reparations fund. It’s unclear how established this fund is or where it would direct money or what it would accomplish.
-contribute money to reperations fund
There it is. Every time.
https://preview.redd.it/idmczux6u9rg1.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=f8f6ecd61c916eb0624276ff041d56fba0d3282f
Remind me who sold the slaves to those ships departing the Ghanaian coast?
Just wondering.
>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.”
giga lol
>The United States, Israel and Argentina were the only nations to vote against the resolution, which was adopted.
Insert the meme
>“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.
I agree with that and especially for Haiti, but the whole resolution was just one of these feel-good UN votes so it did nothing against that, Mauritania and Libya also voted yes btw, just to show how dedicated they are.
IMO the best way would be to create a wealth fund for African countries financed by European countries or some kind of “social rebate” system (maybe it’s provocative but like 1 Visa per estimated slave sold)
This is a bad resolution and it shouldn’t be supported. Slavery is objectively one of the worst atrocities throughout human history. Using it as a cause distinct enough to merit financial compensation from populations that are generations removed from even potentially cooperating with it is not acceptable.
>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.
This is interesting, because if you go to Ghana and have conversations with Ghanaians about the slave trade it’s a common trope that the people who remained often profited from selling other people into slavery or selling them out in some way.
Why the fuck would the US bear the burden of a reparations fund we only had a legal transatlantic slave trade for like 30 years while European powers had it for hundreds
Make Portugal pay lmao