UN votes to recognise slave trade as the greatest crime in history of humanity

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UN votes to recognise slave trade as the greatest crime in history of humanity

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So a few things on this.

Why, after 60 years of so-called 'independence' (where we've been handing them money each and every year because they're so dependent) are they still asking for money and getting the begging bowl out? There's no excuse either - countries like Singapore, China and Malaysia don't sit there with their hands stretched out asking for money from their former colonial rulers.

Secondly, slavery was a universal constant in the history of humanity on every continent and in almost every nation. And the first country to abolish slavery on a global level? The British Empire. Britain spent billions of pounds, using her Royal Navy, and gave the lives of thousands of British sailors to free and suppress slavery off the coast of Africa and elsewhere.

Thirdly, what is often not mentioned is who was capturing and selling the slaves in the first place. Native kingdoms and tribes in Africa - especially on the west coast - were the ones who went into the interior of Africa and rounded up slaves to sell at European forts along the coast. The heavy lifting work was done by Africans capturing and enslaving other Africans.

Fourth, interesting that this was supported by countries like Turkey - a country which from the 1200s to World War I, ran an empire (the Ottoman Empire) that used to raid the coasts of Europe and take white slaves to be sold in markets in Damascus, Algiers and Cairo. Of course, Turkey would rightly tell us to take a walk if we asked for reparations for this.

Fifthly and finally, if we had a government with any backbone they'd have voted against this at the ridiculous UN and then proceeded to suspend all Ghanian visas and preferential tariffs, and haul in the Ghanaian High Commissioner over this undermining and outright grifting of Britain on the world stage.

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The irony of Ghana leading this by the way...

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