UN Secretary-General António Guterres Calls for Reparations for Transatlantic Slave Trade
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres issued a call for reparations for the transatlantic slave trade in a issued statement Monday to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the General Assembly, September 19, 2023, UN photo.
Guterres made his call for reparations using the language of the modern day progressives:
Many of those who organized and ran the Transatlantic slave trade amassed huge fortunes. Meanwhile, the enslaved were deprived of education, healthcare, opportunity, and prosperity.
This laid the foundations for a violent discrimination system based on white supremacy that still echoes today.
…We call for reparatory justice frameworks, to help overcome generations of exclusion and discrimination.
