As the resolution went ahead in New York, the British MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy presented a petition to the House of Commons, pushing for a state apology by the UK for its key role in slavery and colonialism of Africans.
“So many of the intersecting global challenges we now face are rooted in the legacies of enslavement and empire: from geopolitical instability to racism, inequality, underdevelopment and climate breakdown,” the petition read. “To truly confront these issues, we must acknowledge where they come from.”
This simply is not true. Just isn’t. Issa good grift, but other than that….
For four centuries, seven European nations including the UK enslaved and trafficked more than 15 million Africans across the Atlantic. The scale of the chattel slavery was such that 18th and 19th-century abolitionists coined the term “crime against humanity” to describe it. Historians have also linked wealth from enslavement to mass industrialisation in the west.
“When it’s framed as a trade, it distorts the reality,” said Jasmine Mickens, a postgraduate student of history and government at Harvard University. “It was not a consensual joint business enterprise.”
But there’s the thing. Between those selling the slaves and those buying them it was indeed consensual. So even if ew accept eve a part of the claim it’s both sides that are guilty….
Ghana, which has been at the forefront of an effort
And that is rich in irony. The Ashanti – in Ghana – were the first buyers of slaves off the Portuguese. There was a wild price difference in gold between West Africa and Europe. Straight Ricardo – things will be the same price minus transport costs across geography. The costs of those camel trains across the Sahara were high. Therefore the price of gold in Ghana was low. Thus, if you sail around to collect it you profit.
But the Ashanti didn’t want to buy much the Portuguese had for sale. So, the Ps went a bit further along the coast – Lagos sort of area – and bought slaves, brought them back and sold them to the Ashanti as mining slaves. For gold. This all pre-Columbus.
If anyone’s guilty it includes Ghana…..
“pushing for a state apology by the UK for its key role in slavery and colonialism of Africans.”
To be followed immediately by self-congratulation for their role in ending it. There! Everybody’s happy!
They’ve no knowledge of the past. They are “pushing for *another* state apology”
How many apologies are required? – Jamaica Observer
Same point made here…
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So the non-whites want vengeance on whitey. Given that – on current trends – white British people will be a minority in the UK by 2063, I fear for the future…
YouGov survey shows 51% of blacks approve of the UK paying reparations…
So this means 51% of blacks don’t pay taxes???
For decades, large numbers of people in this country have been relaxed about looting others of their countrymen – including those unborn. Seems to me this is an evolution of that.
Disgusting, dishonest, and so on. But still and all, a mere evolution of what everyone has been going along with for ages. A difference of like, but not one of kind.
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“geopolitical instability to racism, inequality, underdevelopment and climate breakdown,”
It’s just omnicause stuff, isn’t it? You could throw in “me not getting a Cabbage Patch Doll”.
The connection between climate change (assuming it is happening) and slavery is an inverse, of course. Machines were cheaper than slaves at all sorts of things. Burning coal and oil means fewer slaves.
Aye, and they want to push us back to slavery to solve the “climate crisis”. But that will be State-owned slavery, so that’s fine, apparently.
But surely they’ll make sure that all the slaves are white!!!
No they aren’t.
Also untrue. If wealth from slavery led to industrialisation, then Africa’s industrial revolution would have come centuries ago.
But, as we have all noted, there is no point arguing against lying grifters. Fuck off is all the answer you need.
…there is no point arguing against lying grifters…
There is no point in arguing with lying grifters; but we do need to argue against the claims of lying grifters – otherwise their lies will persuade the gullible.
Hideous outside; hideous inside.
Many such cases!
So many of the intersecting global challenges we now face are rooted in the legacies of enslavement and empire: from geopolitical instability to racism
Fact check: FALSE.
Racism is a natural consequence of low IQ people with pubic hair on their heads stealing your bike innit
Remigration solves this problem…
Another funny bit – the European nations didn’t (most of the time, at least) enslave anyone. They bought someone who was already enslaved, usually by another African.
I genuinely don’t understand who they think they are fooling? Slavery is an always has been a terrible thing, from slaves in the ancient world to slaves today (which includes slavery still practiced in Africa). But, layer upon layer of special pleading to extort some money out of the descendants of some people who might of bought some of the slaves their ancestors sold is utterly ridiculous.
I genuinely don’t understand who they think they are fooling?
Liberal white women. The bar is low.
Slavery was wide spread, till white British men stopped it, apart from muslims, but we can’t stop them because, reasons.
While the resolution is not legally binding, it is now expected to pave the way for more progress in a fight that scholars and some politicians say has been hampered by the rise of rightwing movements in the west.
Well, duh. White people have taken enough of your shit, and are fatigued with being treated like shit.
And then one day, for no reason at all…
Historians have also linked wealth from enslavement to mass industrialisation in the west.
Lol. So the story is, buying farm labour created the industrial revolution.
You may think it was because people like James Watt invented usable steam engines, while David Oogabooga’s ancestors were still pretty sure fire is magic, but that’s because yous racist innit
Africans owe the world reparations: if their ancestors hadn’t chased out the ancestors of the other human races around 50,000 years ago then Nature around the world would be in a much healthier state.
“the colonialism of Africans”
So, Africans were going around colonising places?
They are now.
The “UK” didn’t exist in the first century of slavery. Even so neither “Britain” nor “the UK” were part of the slave trade. It was not Government policy, nor sanctioned – unlike Spain and Portugal. Some British individuals were involved, but then some British individuals are involved in the illegal drug trade but that doesn’t mean the UK is involved.
My black fatigue has black fatigue!
Apologize to . . . whom?
Incremental step. Get government to make a public statement that they are guilty of something, then you can sue to collect damages. Even though this was all resolved 200 years ago.
Gamecock’s perfect plan: get MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy to make an apology. Then resign his seat over his guilt for being a part of a government that did something to somebody sometime ago.
Some justification for your view. Bell is currently getting her salary and pension from a government that refuses to apologise (again).