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The 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)
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[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

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.

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The US history of not reckoning with slavery is highly problematic in countless respects.

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