Radical Anthropology6d ago

'The point was not theatrical outrage but to establish, at the highest level, a crime whose scale, brutality and enduring consequences structure the present.'

#slavery #reparations

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/08/slave-trade-uk-eu-ghana-un-resolution-slavery

Don’t look at who voted to call the slave trade ‘the gravest crime’, look at who didn’t

The UK and EU countries who abstained when Ghana’s UN resolution was adopted may soon find it harder to sustain the same old script on reparations

The Guardian
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'the familiar alchemy of imperial innocence: commit the crime, profit from the crime, ensure the compensation of slave owners when the crime ends, then seek moral credit for moderating the system you helped to create. It is a politics of historical laundering'
Apr 8 at 12:37pmWeb