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@barkervogues Africans embedded themselves into the value chain for profit. That is complicity.

@barkervogues The use of the term “middle man” in the context of a commercial transaction implies that there was some form of gain/compensation. That is the flaw with your argument. As a middleman, one cannot play victim and at the same time benefit from the source of their “victimization”.

Letter to my dear Bongo Brother! 1. This letter is addressed to my brother Manasseh Azure Awuni (@Manasseh_Azure). But in truth it is intended to be read by all interested in the conversations evoked by his recent writings. 2. Precisely because of that wider target audience, I apologize in advance. For my writing will be a little dense and perhaps too academic for how I usually write on social media. 3. For all who follow me; you know that I try to separate my academic work from how I engage here because I want to carry along the most amount of people when I write. Many say they appreciate how I make law accessible. 4. But issues at hand beget their own manner of responding. The issues are at once academic and dense, so forgive. 5. Manasseh is correct. Correct in that African merchant involvement as middlemen in this barbaric enterprise must be catalogued and be part of the broader reparations conversation. 6. Now in having that conversation we must do so to educate and enlighten so we can better acknowledge how we too repair. YES ! WE TOO MUST REPAIR! 7. My worry however, is that we must be careful that we do not tether too closely to the ever regressive argument which holds that the participation of African merchants and polities in the transatlantic slave trade somehow negates or dilutes the moral and legal case for holistic repair. 8. Still, this line of reasoning which many find in your writing, deserves serious engagement, because it touches on genuine historical complexity. Yet, I find that it ultimately rests on a conflation of complicity with causation; or worse, it conflates moral imperfection with an imposed forfeiture of justice. 8. Now, let us be precise about what the historical record shows. Yes, African rulers, merchants, and intermediaries participated in the capture and sale of enslaved persons. 9. This is neither new scholarship nor a suppressed truth. It has been extensively documented by historians from Walter Rodney to Toyin Falola. The question is not whether this happened. The question here is what follows from it, legally and morally. 10. This is what I feel you address inelegantly, if at all! 11. Consider an instructive parallel. During the Holocaust, some Jews run the Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst, Jewish police units in the ghettos tasked with maintaining order and, in some cases, facilitating deportations to extermination camps. 12. The moral anguish of that role has been the subject of profound reflection, from Hannah Arendt’s controversial treatment of the Judenräte to more recent and more sympathetic scholarship recognising the impossible conditions under which these individuals operated. And yet no serious person has ever suggested that the existence of the Ordnungsdienst undermines the case for Holocaust reparations, restitution, or even the basic moral claim that what was done to the Jewish people constituted an unparalleled crime. 13. The reason is straightforward: the system was not designed, or imposed, by its victims, even where some among the victimised were drawn into its machinery as key players. 14. The same structural logic applies to the transatlantic trade. The system of racialised chattel slavery that defined the Atlantic world from the sixteenth century onward was conceived, financed, legislated, and enforced by European powers and their colonial successors. 15. The legal architecture of the Code Noir, the Slave Codes of the British Caribbean and the American South, the asientos, the joint-stock companies chartered by European crowns: none of this originated in Africa. African participation occurred within a system whose terms, prices, destinations, and ultimate purposes were determined by external demand. 16. To put it bluntly, treating the middleman as the architect is to confuse a distorted market response with the market’s creation.

@transfernews Heelllllll no. Might as well keep Martinelli and Trossard.

Arsenal are PUSHING to sign AC Milan winger Rafael Leão. He is expected to cost €80 million.

@konkrumah @parliament_gh Nothing ever comes out of these sittings. They are meant to create a facade that someone actually cares. You cannot put foxes in a chicken coop to protect the chickens.

@parliament_gh has started an investigation into the auditor general’s special audit that MDAs have made unsupported requests worth billions of Cedis on govt. Very interesting matters have started unfolding. Here is a playback of March 2025 when the minority warned the finance minister that the propaganda approach of inviting people to present bills to govt and adjusting our primary balance with their unvalidated claims was a terrible Idea. The govt thought it was a good propaganda move at the time. Now when the very claims are rejected by the AG, the govt turns around to claim this is evidence of attempts to inflate govt costs. The conclusion of these sittings will be very interesting.

@Philopearl_Afc Eze is a passenger. He gets us that spectacular goal or two but he is not the midfield cog that keeps us turning. People may not like Odegaard but he keeps us ticking, fluid and creative

Something seems missing in Arsenal’s midfield today. Could it be Odegaard?

@TomMarshall_B Or perhaps, Hurzeler is a nobody. Arteta is disliked, not unlikeable. There’s nuance.

If Arteta had spent as much time asking for opposition players to be booked as Hurzeler and had come out with those post-match comments, this app would have exploded. He's one of the most unlikeable managers in the league.

@iamisokokid @piersmorgan Funny guy. When we win it, WE will be the team of the year duh!!!!

@piersmorgan You’ll be one of the worst PL teams in history to win it. The fact that none of your front 4 will likely make it into the Team of the Year speaks volumes. You’re the highest order of anti-football.

Memo to all Arsenal fans, worldwide: we’re on the cusp of historic greatness. It’s time to park all our doubts, fears, concerns and critiques, and get 💯 behind the team until the end of the season. Let our rivals hate us - as they are - but let’s stay rock solid in our support.

@JaySlim1_ @piersmorgan Psst!!! The crying room is down the hall and two doors to your left. Enjoy

@piersmorgan Piers there is no greatness is playing dark art football and no one hates you rather they hate your type of football and if you end up winning the league this way you will be the worst champions ever and no one will ever respect you!!

@MistressBrown77 @Arsenal This aged very well

Chelsea FC , the TRUE kings of world football. Multiple Champions League conquerors. Club World Champions. The benchmark every club dreams of touching. Tonight? We dismantle Arsenal. We expose their bottle jobs, their plastic noise, their endless excuses. Blue storm incoming. Arsenal getting absolutely SCHOOLED at their own game. Come on you Blues 🔥💙 CTID – Champions of the World. Always have been. Always will be. 💙💙💙💙

The place to be this afternoon ❤️ Watch Live From N5 at 3.30pm (UK), Gooners 📺

@SirLeoBDasilva Now Zubimendi is the problem huh? Did you guys see Eze today? Arsenal were the team playing with 10 men. Trossard, our star boy Saka… they all had horrible games. Stop singling out Zubimendi. Be fair at the very least

How are we going to play Semi finals and Finals when Zubimendi seems to always panic in big matches?

@Krestedslime @charles_watts Is English not your first language?

@charles_watts Are we home or away ?

Arsenal will play away at Mansfield in the FA Cup fifth round.

@OliaKenan @charles_watts Bam!!! Spot on. Eze is not in the game and the midfield collapse is entirely on him

@charles_watts Y’all love to be harsh on Odegard but when Eze disappears in games no one talks coz he’s y’all favorite. Truth is we need some control in games, & that’s where our captain becomes crucial.

Arsenal way off it in the opening half an hour. So poor in possession, sloppy individual errors all over the pitch. Unable to get any sort of momentum or territory. Brentford on top.

@charles_watts Eze is a no show…again. I’m sorry but he has never impressed me

@Fentuo_ She is insufferable.

The problem with this persistent view from Aluko asking Ian to give up his punditry spots is that there’s no guarantee she will get them once Ian abdicates. So why does she keeping coming for him?

@LeGrove Looks like you are the one giving the nerve narratives. What man City momentum? Give us a break.

Brentford away was always going to rough, but now it has the added layer of Man City momentum. Arsenal players, like fans, would have assumed City would fall to Liverpool. Now they have to stomach that win, listen to all the rage-bait pundits create nerve-narratives whilst dealing with their own demons of seasons past. Race is going to tighten, fans are going to go weak-kneed, just have to hope the boys can gut it out.

@MirrorFootball @johncrossmirror Do you moonlight as his PR manager?

At a corporate event on Thursday night, Liam Rosenior spoke about progress, competing with Arsenal and making Chelsea successful. 🗣️"He comes across really well and he will be a great manager. We’ve got to hope that is at Chelsea." ✍️|@johncrossmirror mirror.co.uk/sport/football…

@KSam170 @kiwikidincali @MirrorFootball @johncrossmirror You need to consult a dictionary for the definitions of both words

@kiwikidincali @MirrorFootball @johncrossmirror Yes 🤫🤫🤫

🟥Paul Merson is wrong - Liam Rosenior nearly nailed it with Chelsea's tactics vs Arsenal ✍️|@johncrossmirror mirror.co.uk/sport/football…

@PMbythesea @KSam170 @MirrorFootball @johncrossmirror 😂😂😂

@KSam170 @MirrorFootball @johncrossmirror Don’t make me laugh , you’re no where near our level 😂😂 if you saw that as domination I’d mix your drinks with a bit more water

@KSam170 @MirrorFootball @johncrossmirror 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂!!! “IF”… 😂😂😂😂😂

@MirrorFootball @johncrossmirror He set Chelsea up to completely control and dominate Arsenal and that’s exactly what happened, his only issue was not having enough of his best attackers fit. If they meet in the Champions League and Chelsea have a fully fit squad for the2 legs then Chelsea will win.

@TheAthleticFC Crying room is down to your left buddy

Chelsea head coach Liam Rosenior says Arsenal’s coaching staff showed a lack of respect after accusing them of encroaching on his side’s half of the pitch during the warm-ups in Tuesday’s Carabao Cup semi-final defeat. Footage captured by Sky Sports showed the 41-year-old coach appearing to shout “that’s your half! That’s your f****** half. F****** stay there,” during the two sides’ half-time preparations at the Emirates Stadium. Rosenior was asked about the incident during Thursday’s press conference and clarified he had taken issue with the alleged behaviour of Arsenal’s coaching staff, not the opposition players. “It wasn’t the (Arsenal) players,” Rosenior said. “When you warm up, you have your half, the other team have their half. I’ve never asked my team or my coaches to encroach on the opposition’s territory. In that moment, I didn’t think it was right where they were operating." More from @nnamdionye & @reallycerys 🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/70243…