President Joe Biden apologized for the “unimaginable cruelty” of America’s “original sin” of slavery during a White House summit with African leaders this week, where at least one leader mocked America amid China’s increasing influence in the continent.
“We remember the stolen men and women and children were brought to our shores in chains,” Biden said Wednesday after promising the continent $55 billion to fight climate change and increase trade. “My nation’s original sin was that period.”
Slavery is by not unique to America and has was practiced all over the globe throughout human history, including in Africa, where there are still an estimated 9.2 million people enslaved. The apology from Biden comes as Democrats appear increasingly open to the idea of paying reparations to the descendants of African slaves, though nobody has nailed down exactly how such a system would work. A California task force ordered by the state legislature to figure out a reparations rollout cannot agree on even simple details, such as how much money would need to be distributed and who would get it.
Reparations advocates have also set their sights on the United Kingdom, where slavery was abolished in 1833. CNN commentator Don Lemon recently pressed a British guest on the issue, and was told that Africa was the beginning of the slave supply chain.
“Where was the beginning of the [slave] supply chain? That was in Africa,” the British woman told Lemon. “Which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery? … The British. If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, ‘Who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages?'”
The first U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in eight years comes as China reached an all-time high of $254 billion in trade with African countries in 2021. It was the 12th consecutive year China ranked as Africa’s largest trading partner.
During the summit, a reporter asked Rwandan president Paul Kagame about the outcome of the last U.S. summit under the Obama administration in 2014. “‘Well, at least we had a good meeting,” Kagame reportedly told a laughing crowd, suggesting the United States did not live up to expectations.
When asked about choosing between China and the United States, many African leaders declined to take a side.
“The fact that both countries have different levels of relations with African countries makes them equally important for Africa’s development,” Ethiopia’s U.N. ambassador Taye Atske Selassie Amde said. Kagame added that countries don’t need “to be bullied” into “choosing between the U.S. or China.”
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Jack@ss!
SINCE the TRIBAL LEADERS OF Those tribes, were the ones who INITIALLY PUT THEIR OWN people into slavery, often to MUSLIM SLAVE Traders, where is THEIR CULPABILITY for slavery!>!?!?
OR ARE only whites, ever to blame.
They have been taught by the liberals to only blame white people.
In true Obama style.
Did you ask them if they would like their village idiots back??
If you actually read history ?? The first slaves sold were criminals. So ask them if they want the criminals and village idiots back ??
this fool does not speak for me!
When Bite-Me Biden apologizes for the sin of murdering innocent infants in their mothers then I might listen to him. Until then the senile old Communist hypocrite needs to keep his big fat mouth shut!
We’re always going to have this slavery BS thrown into our face for the rest of our lives. It will always be used as a crutch.
If slavery was the first individual “original sin”, then selling your political office for profit was obviously next in line as the first collective one, with Joe’s not too original attempt to improve on it without getting caught is obviously falling as short as his confused misguiding historical logic. On slavery. If he passes one dishonest dollar to Africa that Congress has not authorized, he should be impeached about 10 seconds later and thrown out of office along with his Veep pet political slave Kamala he has chained to his will, who serves her political master every bit as oppressed in speech and in actions as any talking sock puppet. Joe is the Whiteman’s weakest link to the truth, just as his version of history’s missing link back to the blacks who sold each other into slavery for centuries before white people migrated there and opened up business, which was in 1441 when the first slaves were brought to Portugal from West Africa 51 Years before Columbus discovered America, not 1619 like the prevaricating Woke Democrats claim. But for the British Magna Charta and the American Declaration of Independence, slavery’s world elimination would have been postponed for centuries. If anything ,black Africans need to pay Britain and the USA, not the other way around. Any time Joe Biden sends our money overseas, you can bet his crime family is getting a cut back under the table., probably 20% not 10% not because it’s fair, but because with desperate failing impoverished black Africans he knows he can.
Correct. Some of the worst folks who were doing the rounding up of Africans were African Muslims.
Someone needs to remind Slow Joe that the British were not the only ones importing slave labor to their colonies in the Americas. The French, Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese all employed slaves to work on their farms and plantations.
As history tells me, we did not summon the British and Dutch to bring the Africans here. I have wondered what would have happened to them had we refused to let them dock at our borders and unload them. I can imagine that they would have been taken to other countries or drowned. And owning another human being is wrong but it still exists in this world today. The blame on the US for this has gone far enough. And Biden does not speak for me and thousands of others who have not owned slaves. Spot on Stiller Fan!
Yes indeed Fan. The african (they don’t deserve a capital letter) “leaders” were very complicit in the original slave trade. But we NEVER hear or see anything in the national “press” about that. Nor will BLM make any mention of that. Duplicity.
BUT like always, the left’s SILENT ON THOSE groups being to blame. ONLy whites get called out..
Those same black men are desendants of the original slave traders. Where did the slave trade begin? Well before Jesus was born throughout the middle east. Then the African slave trade blew wide open. America entered the slave trade way late in the game. We have NOTHING to be sorry about and damn sure don’t need to apologize.
Especially since OUR NATION was one of the first, to try and fight BACK AGAINST the scourge of slavery..
AND what nations in the world, is it still being practiced? OH YEA< AFRICA/Mid east!!!
NO MONEY FOR REPARATIONS. I DON’T OWN SLAVES, THEY WERE FREED NY LINCOLN
.GO BACK TO THE SOURCE OF YOU WANT MONEY!!!
Keep giving away billions, Joe. We’ll find it somewhere, someday.
WE literally could give them everything there is, AND THEY STILL WOULD WHINE “ITS not enough!”
A race-baiting hypocrite. A Klansman at heart in alignment with Robert Byrd.
Humiliating show of pandering-to what end?.
PinocchiJoe China Biden is a crook.
400,000 Union soldiers gave their lives to end slavery. Mark the reparations bill “Paid in full.”
Not only that but we set up a country for them to go back to africa but most stayed in the US. Lincoln should have required them to return
Slavery was around long before the US came into being
Joe Biden got to quit giving away TAX Money of We the People Period We owe them Nothing for they were Paid
for the Slaves they Sold too
81 million democrats need to apologize for the *** hat biden —
years ago there was a program whereby -taxpayers when paying their taxes
could earmark that they did not want their payment to fund the war-( viet nam)
if all you stupid libs think you owe the past any reparations –then by all means
feel free to earmark your payment to that cause –
I –refuse to see my money go to such a stupid idea-
and by the way FJB -how about we stop sending money to the dictator of ukraine-
or are you getting your 10 % cut as usual
Look up history the Invention of the gin mill 1794 . Then look up the great Plantation era. 1800-1840 beginning of the civil war. That 40 years not 400. With the beginning of the gin mill cotton became Profitable and the slave Population Quadruple .
While Biden is apologizing, why doesn’t he apologize for the open border that destroying any chance black Americans had to gain footing into the middle class, and apologize to all the citizens for destroying their nation?