Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Venezuela First to Join Caricom Fight for Slavery Reparations
teleSUR ^ | May 10, 2018 | La Radio del SUR

Posted on 06/08/2018 10:19:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Gaining international recognition is the first step in securing global reparations for the descendants of African slaves.

Venezuela is joining the Caribbean Community (Caricom) in the fight for global slavery reparations, discussing appropriate compensation for centuries of injustice.

During a speech entitled 'Reparations of Resistance to Action,' Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza urged Latin America and colonizing countries to assume responsibility for past wrongs which affected Africans and their ancestors around the world.

The Venezuelan government is working to guarantee that the social rights of residents of African descent are respected, and officials have opened the floor to dialogue for slavery reparations, Arreaza said.

According to the chair of the Caribbean Pan-African Network, David Comissiong, the meeting is the first step towards bringing the reparations movement to an international platform.

The cause was first proposed in 2013 by the 15-member Caricom, which lobbied against Britain and other colonizing western European countries. It is calling for reparations for centuries of enslavement and associated crimes against humanity, the effects of which are still felt by African descendants today.

Comissiong told teleSUR that Venezuela's support will allow the mission to expand internationally, substantiate the claim, and help to present the demands to the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac), the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Alba), the Non-Aligned Movement, and the United Nations.

"Venezuela now coming on board gives a tremendous boost to that campaign," Comissiong said. "People like myself have always been clear that the Caribbean reparations claim is only going to be successful when it is expanded into a kind of global Pan-African cause."

The next steps are to consolidate the Pan-African reparations campaign; build relations with countries such as China, Russia and India; build embassies, and appoint ambassadors to the United Nations.

The event, which ended Wednesday, was an opportunity for Caribbean countries to reflect on what they can do both nationally and internationally to support the cause, Comissiong said.

"Reparations is both an outward process and at the same time it's an inward process," he said. "The outward process is where we level demands and claims in those liable European and North American governments and institutions for the damage inflicted by slavery.

"It is also an inward process where we look inwards at ourselves, at our own national societies, at our own governmental policies, at the damage that has been done at a cultural and psychic level.

"That inward process says to us that we have to do several things. One, that we have to teach our people the history: the history of pre-slavery, pre-colonial Africa, the history of European colonization and enslavement, the history of our people's resistance.

"Secondly, we have to look inwards and identify all those still existing negative policies and barriers to the progress and development of African descended people and we have to root them up and get rid of them.

“We have to mobilize a massive global movement in favor and in support of reparations and, at the same time, we have to isolate those recalcitrant western and North American governments that have been audaciously resisting this claim which is based on justice, legality, and righteousness, so Venezuela can play a very big role on internationalizing this campaign that was started in 2013 by 15 relatively small Caribbean nations."


TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: africa; alba; blacks; caribbean; caricom; celac; islam; nonalignedmovement; reparations; unitednations; venezuela
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-33 next last
Good luck with that.
1 posted on 06/08/2018 10:19:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well since they are in such a stable position they can afford......... Oh, never mind.


2 posted on 06/08/2018 10:21:52 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

They need hard currency - anyway they can get it. If the socialists there need to pimp out their local black people for cash, they will do it.


3 posted on 06/08/2018 10:22:18 AM PDT by PGR88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Africans were not the 1st, not the last, nor were they the only ones to be slaves. Every race, color, and practically every nationality has been or owned slaves.


4 posted on 06/08/2018 10:22:40 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Even if there ever were "reparations" I seriously doubt the descendants of any slaves would see a dime as the government would see fit to "redistribute" any and all reparations.

I'm sure Chavez's daughter will get richer.

5 posted on 06/08/2018 10:26:22 AM PDT by BBell (not drinking, just a smart a$$)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

The US gave reparations during the LBJ movement and we’ve been paying for it since.

The only other thing I can think of is to give them Venezuela.


6 posted on 06/08/2018 10:28:45 AM PDT by Fhios (1980's Where's Waldo, 2018 where's sessions)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
I got a couple of things to give you in response to your reparations demands. Just a second, I'm going to have to find it, wait, here it one . And let me see...where did I put that other one, oh here it is: !

Dang, I got those backwards; here you go:


7 posted on 06/08/2018 10:31:28 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

And just how will Venezuela pay for reparations?


8 posted on 06/08/2018 10:31:31 AM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
If it us a global initiative why only African derived slaves?
9 posted on 06/08/2018 10:33:41 AM PDT by arthurus (p786+)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, we need to reimburse the families and descendants of those who fought in the civil war on the side of the north.


10 posted on 06/08/2018 10:33:46 AM PDT by fruser1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Reno89519

Pot calling the kettle black.


11 posted on 06/08/2018 10:34:02 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I have an idea. Lets give the descendants of Venezuelan slaves a whole country swimming in petroleum. They can do whatever they want with it.


12 posted on 06/08/2018 10:34:42 AM PDT by marron
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Reno89519

they wont.
they just want everyone else to know what they need to do., how very liberal of them.


13 posted on 06/08/2018 10:35:34 AM PDT by tm61 (Election 2012: we find it IS possible, to polish a turd.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
I want reparations for the discrimination against the Irish in New York.

Send a check

14 posted on 06/08/2018 10:36:07 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet


Give me a dollar!
15 posted on 06/08/2018 10:36:49 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet
The caribes need to reimburse europeans who's family fell victim to cannibals, such as the explorer Veranzo:

https://exploration.marinersmuseum.org/subject/giovanni-da-verrazzano/

16 posted on 06/08/2018 10:37:08 AM PDT by fruser1
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m not sure that Spain and Portugal have the stomach or the resources to pay Latin American blacks anything. And why should the USA do it?


17 posted on 06/08/2018 10:38:57 AM PDT by chesley (What is life but a long dialog with imbeciles? - Pierre Ryckmans)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

What about Irish slaves or American Indians who were taken as slaves??


18 posted on 06/08/2018 10:39:40 AM PDT by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kozak

They called me, “Agent Orange”.


19 posted on 06/08/2018 10:42:18 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

How about reparations for their citizens from their corrupt govt. who have enslaved them?


20 posted on 06/08/2018 10:44:05 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The MSM is the enemy of the American people)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-33 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson