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I'm genuinely suprised that many people here straight up deny any European responsibility in the exploitation of Africa.. like holy shit :I
Why should we pay if we did nothing wrong? Its both their ancestors who sold them and ours for buying them. Noone else.
Europe stripped Africa of its resources. And it is still ongoing. While today we aren't responsible for what our ancestors did, we still live with the wealth that was never ours. And it is time to pay it back. And blaming Africans for their own exploitation is just absurd, sorry.
The problem here is the mixing of slave trade and exploitation of Africa. The slave trade was mostly buying slave from Africa from Africans and bringing them to the Americas to work on plantations. All countries guilty of the trade should pay reparations for that and that means European countries, the African countries, who enslaved their own and other countries like for example Oman, which were huge in the slave trade.
As for the exploitation of Africa, that really happened under colonialism, which for the most part happened after the slave trade ended. That is a very different story and we actually have seen some reparations being paid, however it was clearly not enough and many countries refuse. That money should go to Africa.
However this fund is for the Atlantic slave trade and not colonialism in Africa. There is a difference. In the Atlantic slave trade Africans in Africa are guilty of massive large scale crimes and wanting to see money for collaborating on such ghastly crimes in the past is nothing short of insane to me. The victims are for the most part in America and not in Africa today.