Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Slavery Discrimination

"Summarizing one of the Conference's main themes, Willem Udenhout, Special Adviser to the President of Surinam, said basic truths and basic convictions could always be expressed in simple words: the transatlantic slave trade was the most horrible and most depraved action and was, quite clearly, a crime against humanity. Views that slavery and the slave trade were legal at the time and therefore could not be condemned were of great concern to him. Compensatory measures were indispensable for acknowledging past wrongs, he said.
African national institutions, putting the situation in the context of the consequences of slavery, the slave trade and colonialism, urged the Conference to identify them as crimes against humanity and called for debt cancellation. Mariama Cisse, Vice-President, Human Rights and Fundamental Freedom Commission of Niger, said that after three centuries of slavery and the slave trade and 70 years of colonialism with all its consequences, Africa had no longer a debt to pay."
info:
http://www.un.org/WCAR/pressreleases/rd-d37.htm

Base on this article the most command racist discrimination is slavery.
Slavery was a very unfair discrimination on color people specially on "black people". Lots of slaves were trade and abused in ways no one should be treated. Slave survived by doing what there owner tell them to do but there jobs were to much. Slavery is is one of the biggest reason y theres racism in this world. Family members when threw slavery and have been killed. It was a ruff time for color and blacks. Stop Racism and discrimination !

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