By Ruth Maclean, New York Times
The United States voted against a United Nations resolution this week to formally recognize the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity.”
The resolution, which was led by Ghana, urged U.N. member states to apologize for the slave trade and to contribute to a reparations fund.
On Tuesday, before the vote, John Mahama, the president of Ghana, said that American schools were being discouraged from teaching about slavery and racism. He called the resolution “a safeguard against forgetting.”
Infuriating. Amerikka’s blatant racism, militarism, fake religiosity, released by the White Christian Nationalist “Whiteness House.” Although calling slavery the ‘gravest”— what about genocide of Native Amreicans and of Jews? So perhaps One of the Gravest, would be better language.