Trump’s America Refuses to Recognize Slavery as Crime Against Humanity

It's also the issue with consent. Technically as they are imprisoned they don't have full consent to refuse to work. So we'd really need to ban Prison Labor or find a way to ensure full consent was given (and no hint of coercion, including the coercion of "just being able to walk outside"). I didn't mention it because it's a lot more complex and I wanted to keep the point simple.

I know this is reactionary and not based in any real ideology, but I'll engage anyway: > Let’s pretend Romes, Indian, Persian, mongol, Chinese, Aztec slavery were actually all equal and no caste system existed in any of these places. Historians / UN framework distinguish the Transatlantic trade because it innovated a specific, uniquely destructive model.. **Racialized** Chattel Slavery In Roman, Aztec, or Persian systems, enslaved people were often prisoners of war, debtors, or criminals. While brutal (and we can circle back if it helps.. let's repay all wrongs), they often retained basic legal personhood, could earn freedom, and their children were not always born into slavery. Chattel slavery legally reduced humans to the exact status of livestock or farm equipment.. property with zero legal rights. Then.. to justify the horrific contradictions of chattel slavery during Enlightenment (an era focused on human rights), European powers explicitly tied slave status to skin color.. Creating a permanent, heritable, global racial caste system. The UN resolution targets this specific trade because it birthed modern, systemic anti-Black racism.. ***the effects of which are still actively shaping global disparities today***. > So Why isn’t Ghana or any African country paying? They’re equally complicit in selling their own people. Sure the Europeans and Americans created the demand, but it was African nations/tribes/kingdoms that routed up their own people and sold them ( and made a killing doing it) The reparations movement is primarily about the ***accumulation*** of capital. African elites profited in the short term, the massive, generational wealth generated by slave labor (sugar, cotton, tobacco) was funneled directly into European and American banks, universities, and governments. Ghana isn't being asked to pay because the wealth extracted from that trade did not build Ghana's modern institutions.. it built the West's. Furthermore, that trade stripped the African continent of millions of its most productive people, causing a demographic collapse that left them vulnerable to total European colonization. > On top of all that, you got me…. I’m the most profilic slaver of them all…. Oh wait I’m not, nor am I related, why the f*** am I paying? You seem to view this as a direct tax levied on white citizens to be handed to Black citizens. These target institutions, not individuals. The argument is that the institutions (the US government, the British Crown, global banks) that legally sanctioned and profited from the trade still exist today, and therefore the institutional debt remains valid. Your taxes pay for many things you likely don't agree with. Why is this different? Did you have this much vitriol when the US government paid reparations to Japanese Americans interned during WWII some 40 years later? If you want to talk about unfair payments, look up how the West forced Haiti to pay them reparations for the 'crime' of freeing themselves.

So about the billions ( in modern money ) the Africans nations/kingdoms/tribes made off kidnapping, then selling their own people -> These countries are going to send the money back to the victims in the west right? Otherwise why are they getting money off something they perpetrated?

Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Pierce come to mind. Bush 2 is getting up there. Nixon is in there. Honestly, a lot to choose from.

Factory workers in ShenZen are about to have it better than most Americans.

> It only addressed African slavery rather than all slavery. "all slavery" is not a concrete episode in history. African slave trade is. Then still, wouldn't you think that "torture" is worse than "slavery"? > 52 more, cast a cowardly non-yes by their silence. Well, it is a pretty weird vote. Were there any contenders like the Holocaust, the Holodomor, Armenian genocide and others. Israel might prefer the Holocaust as the gravest? It is pretty crazy to have a vote at the UN about what the gravest crime against humanity is. As if other crimes against humanity are not that bad. What else can you do but be silent. We do not need a ranking of crimes against humanity.

It does when the other 2 concurring votes come from fascist regimes. As is ours at this point. We're THERE.