☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 days agoThe UN has voted 123-3 in favour to condemn the enslavement of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Something, something, same map.lemmy.mlimagemessage-square85linkfedilinkarrow-up1347arrow-down12
arrow-up1345arrow-down1imageThe UN has voted 123-3 in favour to condemn the enslavement of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Something, something, same map.lemmy.ml☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square85linkfedilink
minus-squareArthur Besse@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·6 days agoThe text was “highly problematic in countless respects,” Ambassador Dan Negrea, US representative to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), said prior to the vote.
minus-squareacargitz@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up7·6 days agoThe US history of not reckoning with slavery is highly problematic in countless respects.
The text was “highly problematic in countless respects,” Ambassador Dan Negrea, US representative to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), said prior to the vote.
The US history of not reckoning with slavery is highly problematic in countless respects.