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@415_Shizzle
Black American - Born and raised San Francisco - 49ers - Giants - Warriors - Savage
Katılım Eylül 2025
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@frank_bannerman Those tribes that existed during slavery like Ashanti are now in leadership positions. They are responsible
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Ghana didn’t sell slaves, Ghana didn’t exist then. Some locals were involved but much of it was driven by violence. Chiefs were threatened, killed or removed to force participation. Don’t rewrite history to dilute the scale and responsibility of the West's industrialized slavery
Peter Hague@peterrhague
Ghana really is pulling a fast one aren’t they? First they got paid for all the slaves they sold (until Britain stopped them) and now they want to get paid compensation for the existence of slavery by the people who stopped them doing it. Anybody in Parliament who even hints at “reparations” is in my mind a straight up traitor. I, a taxpayer, don’t owe foreign scammers a penny.
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@kenjimxx All Black Americans said is don't mention us in your scams and stunts.
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Black Americans are furious that the Ghanaian President have taken this bold step to criminalise slavery and demand for reparations, they protested against it .Same ppl said they had nothing to do with Africa and are native Americans and native any western country 😭😭😭😭.
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@1quarmyn_Owoo We only speak on underachievers that spoke on us and tried to use our ancestors for political clout. Don't mention us simple
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All of a sudden, people who claim to be indigenous to America are fighting Africans for seeking reparations?? Damn😂😂😂 confused negroes.
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@PurpleOhemaa @wil_da_beast630 Wherever he's from he needs to stop speaking about Black Americans and using us for political clout and go home to his country and fix his trash country. We don't want him or that African Union speaking about my ancestors.
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@415_Shizzle @wil_da_beast630 😹 the president of Ghana is not an Akan man. Do your research and come back again. He’s not from the southern part of Ghana 👍🏾
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Ghana/Ashanti sold most of the slaves tho.
BBC News (World)@BBCWorld
Ghana demands compensation for slavery in landmark UN vote bbc.in/4rRUjny
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@wode_maya All this fake unity so African nations can use black folks for political clout is insane.
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@PurpleOhemaa @wil_da_beast630 He's from a subgroup Akyem and they are responsible for slave selling.
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@LarryTaunton Africans and Africa remain cursed till this day because of slavery
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The black on black slave trade was, and remains, bigger in Africa than the white on black slave trade ever was.
But they didn’t teach you that in school.
Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10
Ghana can sod off.
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This is so stupid. Please tell me the Western world understands that there were other—more brutal—forms of slavery in the world apart from the trans-Atlantic slave trade?
The Arab slave trade lasted longer and killed more people.
That’s also without acknowledging the fact that there is slavery happening right now!!
Alan MacLeod@AlanRMacLeod
BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The three countries voting against it? 🇺🇸 USA 🇮🇱Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina Nearly all of Europe abstained.
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@Big_Mck No it's not a lie, it's the truth. Ashante tribe was a major participant in the transatlantic slave trade. This is why y'all remain cursed
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This fraudulent narrative has to stop.
This is the kind of flawed anecdote some African Christians copy to justify the enslavement of their own people. It’s sad, especially because it is based on a completely untrue.
Slavery (transatlantic slavery) began with Europeans, particularly the Portuguese arriving on the coasts of Africa and kidnapping people indiscriminately. Yes, it started with kidnapping. From there, they moved to formalize and commercialize the practice, and eventually constructing slave dungeons to sustain the trade.
They would approach natives and deceive them into believing they were building trading centers. By the time these structures were completed, it became clear that they were not trading posts but slave dungeons. Anyone who resisted was killed and their village burned. There were many rulers in Ghana who were either killed or exiled for resisting this idea. (Go and read about them).
Once these Europeans had established and legitimized their slave dungeons, they began arming different groups along the coast to fight one another. War captives were then brought to these dungeons and sold.
Many of those captured only realized they had been played when they found themselves together on the same European slave ships.
It’s sad that our people don’t know their history.
Wilfred Reilly@wil_da_beast630
Ghana/Ashanti sold most of the slaves tho.
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@_MansaTre The Asante kingdom was in power then and most of them are leaders of the country now
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Ghana was founded in 1957. How did they participate in the slave trade?
The Black Tucker Carlson Jr 🇺🇸@B1TuckerCarlson
Ghana was a willing participant in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade Ghana owes Black Americans reparations not an apology.
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@wode_maya All it will ever be is a conversation because white people in the UK are not happy with Africans. They are on the TL dragging y'all
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I love the reparation conversations on the timeline especially from Africans in Africa.
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Africans don't call out Arabs for slavery because they are scared and they view Europeans as a safer bet
Kwaku Asante@kwakuasanteb
The United States was built, structurally and economically, on the labour of enslaved Africans. The cotton that financed American industrialisation was picked by enslaved hands. Think about the audacity of that NO vote. A country that holds itself up as the beacon of freedom and democracy and human rights looked at a resolution acknowledging one of the greatest crimes in human history and decided that acknowledging it was a step too far.
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@BrinkWvd @kwakuasanteb Africans are scared of Arabs and they look at the European countries as a safer bet
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@kwakuasanteb Why not the Arab/islamic trans-saharan slave trade? That was more gruesome, larger and longer. Of course not, it is all about reparations. Everyone knows that Arab countries do not slavishly open their wallets; that requires white guilt. And we have plenty of that in the West.
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The United States was built, structurally and economically, on the labour of enslaved Africans. The cotton that financed American industrialisation was picked by enslaved hands.
Think about the audacity of that NO vote. A country that holds itself up as the beacon of freedom and democracy and human rights looked at a resolution acknowledging one of the greatest crimes in human history and decided that acknowledging it was a step too far.
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@johnstretch @kwakuasanteb Not only did they sell Africans but the descendants of the people they sold, now they want to claim their history and struggles as if they were in those slavery fields. They have no pride
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@kwakuasanteb Ghanaians were selling their neighbours across the Sahara for centuries before Europeans arrived.
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@kwakuasanteb Y’all telling overlapping stories about Black American history like it’s the same, it’s not.
Trying to “connect” with my ancestors while skipping how they got here, let's me know y'all have zero achievements. To claim someone else's work and struggle, you have no pride.
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@S_OkudzetoAblak Using the people you sold into slavery for social and political clout is a new low. Ghana needs to pay reparations for the slaves they sold. Y'all are cursed
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We are immensely and eternally grateful to the UN, all 123 Member States who voted emphatically for Ghana’s Resolution and express limitless appreciation to our broad coalition of people of good conscience across the world.
The humanity, dignity and respect of our ancestors and Africans everywhere are being restored.
Resolution A/80/L.48, declaring the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement as the Gravest Crime against Humanity has not merely been overwhelming adopted by the UN General Assembly, it has victoriously delivered justice to more than 12.5 million victims of the transatlantic slave trade.
May I express high commendations to my colleagues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in our missions in New York, Addis Ababa and Geneva for their exceptional contributions.
I thank our technical experts and global partners for reparatory justice for their phenomenal output.
God bless President John Mahama for his extraordinary leadership and unwavering commitment to this historic process.
Reparatory Justice is the winner.
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@pl_european They actually didn't sell their own they sold neighboring kingdoms and POW's. There was no such thing as an African when the slave trade started, they were just different tribes
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I have never seen Arabs and/or Muslims been apologetic for slave trade, yet they had more to do with it than Europeans.
I have never seen African leaders apologise for the fact that tribal African lords sold their own as hostages and sold them to Europeans as slaves.
Politics Global@PolitlcsGlobal
🚨🌍 NEW: The UN has voted to recognise the slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity” and also called for reparations to the countries impacted The UK, France and other EU member states abstained whilst the US, Israel and Argentina opposed the proposal
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@_GhChronicles I think Ghana should pay reparations to the descendants of the people they enslaved and sold.
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“We are not looking for money, it goes against our conscience, but we are looking at courses and return of artifacts”
-Ghana Foreign Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa
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@_GhChronicles UK had to stop Ghana from selling slaves, so y'all ain't getting shyt back. A deal is a deal
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