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."
Well, first we gave them Haiti, so why not give them Venezuela now. Maybe they can make a go of it there.
I cannot fix the past. I am not responsible for the past. I no longer even care about the past. I used to.
I will kill anyone who tries to oppresses me, for any reason, including my skin color.
Be my friend or be my enemy.
If the hot mess that is collapsing, communist Venezuela is going to pontificate about slavery in the New World, they should read the history of the Spanish in the New World-the 1st people they enslaved were not Black but the Native Americans/Indians from the Caribbean Islands all the way to what is now the SW US-but Indians don’t make good slaves-they were prone to kill their captors or die trying to-not profitable, so the Spaniards brought Black slaves from Africa-apparently they were less likely to revolt as often...
Since my Spanish ancestors enslaved my Native American ancestors, along with those of just about every other person of Hispanic descent in the Americas-we should be 1st in line for any “reparations”-so come on Spain and Portugal-cough ‘em up!!!
Let me see the logic here:
Some of my ancestors were enslaved by some of your ancestors.
Some of my ancestors enslaved some of your ancestors.
Most of the slaves taken by some less succesfull societies, did not reproduce.
Most of the slaves take by some of today’s more successful societies, reproduced.
Since some white people who had some black slaves, lived in societies that eliminated slavery and became wealthy, the people in those societies today, should pay the black people in the societies that did not become wealthy.
Total nonsense.
Here is your reparation.
You don’t have to live in africa
Have a nice day
If you watch Ancient Aliens, you know that aliens changed the DNA of Homo Erectus (erection man) in order to make all of them more useful so they could work in the gold mines. So as soon as the aliens return, we need to present them with our bill for reparations. That’ll clear it all up.
And here we are at the money line in this wonderful little piece of Socialist Flatulence. Can you say shakedown? I knew ya could.
Level and demand away Pookie. And in the mean time what say we send a carrier battle group or two down there to facilitate your own contributions to the "oppressed" of the world. While we're at it dragging the entire corrupt leadership of your Sh*t Hole country out and hanging them from the nearest suitable tree or lamp post.
Hmm. Most likely if a lot of them were never brought here (well their ancestors) they would not even exist today knowing how the tribes slaughtered each other there. Even in recent events. Think Hutus and Tutsis. So, I’m kinda thinkin’ reimbursement for travel, housing and food is in order. Oh, and a hearty THANKS for saving us. If I remember correctly, the number of slaves went more to the islands and central and south America than the US. But that would stand to reason that venezoola would want to pay up. Corrections as needed.
Americans think of the USA when they talk about slavery. South America was heavily into slavery of Africans. The lifespan of slaves in South America was 1/3 that of slaves in the U.S. They were brutal.
Reparations for slavery should first be made from the dictatorship and its supporters to the people of Venezuela. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
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