How about we punish the people who actually still own slaves instead?
This.
I wish ppl would focus on what’s actually happening now, then on what happened centuries ago.
Mind you, I’m not downplaying what happened, just putting the discussion in a broader and more direct context.
According to this site( ILO) there are approximately 50 million slaves. This might be a low estimate.
And historically, most people in Europe where some sort of (work) slave at one time or another ( generally until 18th century), unless you were nobility. That doesn’t make it right what happened though.
Finally, I feel while we are at it, some African tribes (and Arabian Communities), should offer their apologies as well, since they were the ones that captured the people, and sold them in the first place.
What other people did or didn’t do, won’t change the grievances that occured, or change the culpability European countries had in this " New World" drama.