Remembering What Power Wants to Forget
In our troubled times, when our U.S. chief executive revels in cruelty and the suffering of others, especially those ethnically different from him, it is wonderful to see that voices in our United Nations have joined and stood up together to remember and memorialize the cruelty of chattel slavery.
Paired with this remembrance is a conviction and call to action that we should all share: To do better, to educate each other about the truths of the past and our present, and to heal our culture.
The resolution calls on U.N. member nations to engage in talks "on reparatory justice, including a full and formal apology, measures of restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction, guarantees of non-repetition and changes to laws, programs and services to address racism and systemic discrimination."
UN calls for reparations to remedy the 'historical wrongs' of trafficking enslaved Africans (NPR, 26 March 2026)
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