French man offers country's first official apology for his family's role in the slavery trade

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• Johnny 2 days ago

  That apology is supposed to come from the state not individuals. Unfortunately for France all their economic decisions they have taken or contracts signed with black Afrivans have been exploitative.

  That apology is supposed to come from the state not individuals. Unfortunately for France all their economic decisions they have taken or contracts signed with black Afrivans have been exploitative.

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• Osei Tutu of Chad 2 days ago

  I can imagine Afenyo Markin's back being lashed with a whip by a slave trader

  I can imagine Afenyo Markin's back being lashed with a whip by a slave trader

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• Frank Agyena-Karikari. 2 days ago

  It is okay that a French is apologizing for the roles played by his forefathers in that abysmal trade in Slaves across the Atlantic to the Americas but Africans should also apologize for participating in that evil and wicked ...
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  It is okay that a French is apologizing for the roles played by his forefathers in that abysmal trade in Slaves across the Atlantic to the Americas but Africans should also apologize for participating in that evil and wicked trade. Yes, Africans were equally guilty in that obnoxious trade because they went to war against their own, captured defeated people from towns and villages and sold them to Europeans Slave Merchants who almost never went into land to fight and capture Africans to send to the Americas as slaves.
  Africans were even more guilty because they started selling their own to Arabs and Indians. Do we remember that Mensa Musa, Askia the Great and Sumanguru Kante were all selling Africans to Arabs as Slaves? Let us hear when the Asantehene among other Traditional Leaders will also come out and openly apologize for the roles of their forefathers in the wicked and evil Trans Saharan, Trans Atlantic, and Trans Indian Ocean Slave Trade. The African Slave Traders were just greedy and evil and need to come out to apologize to the descendants of the various Trade in Humans that they participated and encouraged.

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• prophet mohammed was a sick dog 2 days ago

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• Awine 1 day ago

  The worst part of it all is how the wicked and evil Asantehene even sent a delegation to the British to beg them not to abolish or end the slave trade. These devils were even cutting off the heads of slaves to bury their ugly ...
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  The worst part of it all is how the wicked and evil Asantehene even sent a delegation to the British to beg them not to abolish or end the slave trade. These devils were even cutting off the heads of slaves to bury their ugly Pygmy looking chiefs

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• FACT 2 days ago

  FUN FOOL TACTICS OF NEOCOLONIZATION
  Make pretences for the victim feel that the crime/offence/harm was an evil of necessity.
  
  And then....Shall the blood relatives of the direct sufferers of the slave trade see a speck of ...
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  FUN FOOL TACTICS OF NEOCOLONIZATION
  Make pretences for the victim feel that the crime/offence/harm was an evil of necessity.
  
  And then....Shall the blood relatives of the direct sufferers of the slave trade see a speck of reparations?

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• Frank Agyena-Karikari. 2 days ago

  Tell your African ethnic groups like the Asante, Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo and many others who participated in that obnoxious trade as a result of greed and corruption and desire to dominate and have control over others. Those Afric ...
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  Tell your African ethnic groups like the Asante, Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo and many others who participated in that obnoxious trade as a result of greed and corruption and desire to dominate and have control over others. Those African participants were just as evil and horrible as the European Slave Merchants. Let us hear an apology from Africans and their leaders instead of talking about how they need to be compensated. They are just foolish to demand that. Who captured and sold who?

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• Awine 1 day ago

  You make sense and sound reasonable when you leave Rawlings out of your arguments. In all honesty though this man is 86 years old, probably has cancer and a doctor issued expiry date that’s why he’s on this atonement jour ...
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  You make sense and sound reasonable when you leave Rawlings out of your arguments. In all honesty though this man is 86 years old, probably has cancer and a doctor issued expiry date that’s why he’s on this atonement journey. He had more than 60 decades to come clean

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• Keane 1 day ago

  Africa has had a hundred years and more to sort itself out still a corrupt shit hole . Wealth sum good people but c@nts of leaders

  Africa has had a hundred years and more to sort itself out still a corrupt shit hole . Wealth sum good people but c@nts of leaders

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• GOLDEN 1 day ago

  IGNORANT BRAIN-WASHED PEOPLE SHOULD KEEP THEIR STUPID COMMENTS TO THEMSELVES,PERIOD!!!!!!! THE STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE,BLACKS,WERE CAPTURED AS SLAVES FOR DISOIBEYING THE MOST HIGH GOD ALMIGHTY OUR CREATOR,DO NOT COPY THE CUSTOMS ...
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  IGNORANT BRAIN-WASHED PEOPLE SHOULD KEEP THEIR STUPID COMMENTS TO THEMSELVES,PERIOD!!!!!!! THE STIFF-NECKED PEOPLE,BLACKS,WERE CAPTURED AS SLAVES FOR DISOIBEYING THE MOST HIGH GOD ALMIGHTY OUR CREATOR,DO NOT COPY THE CUSTOMS OF THE HEATHEN AS GOD DEAMANDS TOTAL LOYALTY FROM HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE,ITS ALL WRITTEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,ALL THE FACTS ARE WRITTEN IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,READ THE KING JAMES VERSION OR THE ORIGINAL GENEVA BIBLE.LISTEN TO THE AMAZING SERMONS OF TRUSTWORTHY PASTOR OMAR THIBEAUX AND STOP BELIEVING IN DECADES OF LIES TO HIDE THE TRUTH,GET SOME KNOWLEDGE TIME FOR SPIRITUAL AWAKENING INDEED!!!!!!!!!!!

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