Slavery is a horrific institution that has plagued human civilization for thousands of years. However, don’t tell this to the United Nations, for the intergovernmental agency created as a response to World War II, seems to think that the institution of slavery was only prevalent between the 15th and 18th centuries in trans-Atlantic form. On March 25, the U.N. passed a resolution rebuking the trans-Atlantic slave trade, calling for “healing and reparative justice.” The U.N. resolution categorized the enslavement of Africans as the “gravest crime against humanity.”
The resolution claimed that, “for more than 400 years, millions of people were stolen from Africa, put in shackles and shipped to the New World to toil in cotton fields and sugar and coffee plantations under scorching heat and the crack of the whip.”
The U.N. claimed it needs “reparative justice” for the sins of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Yet, what the organization really needs is a history lesson.
The effort to pass the resolution was led by Ghana President John Dramani Mahama, who spoke “on behalf of the 54-member African Group” at the U.N. An ironic action, since it was the ancestral leaders of Ghana, and many of the kings, tribal chieftains, and leaders of the other African nations in that group who originated the slave trade. While it is fashionable and the preferred revisionist ideology to blame white people for enslaving Africans, the truth and fact is that Africans started enslaving other Africans over a thousand years before any European set foot on the continent.
Unsurprisingly, left-wing globalist ideologues indoctrinated with the core tenets of neo-Marxism overwhelmingly approved the U.N.’s resolution, passing with a vote of 123-3 (and 52 countries that abstained). It was an affront to demonize white people for engaging in an institution that has existed in every human civilization and society, including, ironically, today in Africa. To the aristocrats at the U.N., slavery in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is a worse “crime against humanity” than slavery in the 21st century, even when it is on the very continent where the slave trade originated centuries ago.
The U.N. and the African delegation that led the passage of the resolution might want to get their own house in order before they condemn the actions of others. It takes a unique kind of political arrogance to lecture others on the ills of slavery when there are nearly 4 million Africans in “forced labor” across the continent, according to the Global Slavery Index. Furthermore, historically, the U.N.’s assessment of the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity” is little more than agenda-driven ideological hogwash predicated on decades of radical left-wing brainwashing that has created a class of global leaders who subscribe to the toxic renderings of “white guilt.”
As mentioned previously, slavery has existed throughout the world in every human civilization for thousands of years, many of which included ancestral civilizations in Africa, such as Egypt, the Ghana Empire, Songhai Empire, and Mali Empire, among others. And as much as the U.N. seeks to vilify the trans-Atlantic slave trade, its omission of the trans-Saharan slave trade is egregious, considering it was significantly worse and existed for a much longer period of time in history, spanning more than 1,300 years.
But those examples of slavery do not fit the U.N.’s agenda. As such, it overlooks the grave crimes and sins of those societies, all to prioritize the vilification and demonization of white slave traders and owners. If the U.N. truly cared about healing and reparative justice, it would start by holding the ancestral leaders of the empires, countries, and nations in Africa who enslaved Africans for centuries and originated the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century.
The U.N.’s slight, however, did not go unnoticed. Ambassador Dan Negrea, United States representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, had enough guts to call out the U.N.’s agenda-driven political malfeasance.
“The United States also strongly objects to the resolution’s attempt to rank crimes against humanity in any type of hierarchy,” Negrea said in a letter explaining why the United States voted against the U.N.’s resolution. “The assertion that some crimes against humanity are less severe than others objectively diminishes the suffering of countless victims and survivors of other atrocities throughout history. This is not a competition. This attempted ranking is also simply incorrect as a matter of law.”
UN RESOLUTION CALLS FOR REPARATIONS FOR ‘GRAVEST CRIME’ OF TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
“The United States would also like to express disappointment in the arbitrarily historical perspective of the text,” Negrea added. “Trafficking of African slaves began long before the 15th century and sadly continued even after the 19th. These dates were clearly selected for political reasons rather than historical accuracy. All trafficking of enslaved Africans and racialized chattel enslavement of Africans deserves to be condemned, not merely the politically expedient.”
The U.N. was founded in October 1945 to help maintain global peace and security following two world wars over the previous 30 years. Since then, decades of ideological infiltration have transformed the intergovernmental organization. It no longer legitimately contributes to ensuring peace or security and, in many ways, should be considered a useless institution and a Cold War relic.
Today’s U.N. does more lecturing on social issues from a left-wing perspective than preventing harm or engaging in protection or security. Instead, as this resolution has revealed, the U.N. has been corrupted to be little more than an ineffective, sanctimonious organization solely championing left-wing ideological pursuits.
