I want to recommend Kentucky State professor of political science Wilfred Reilly’s Pacific Research Institute post “The Slavers Call for Reparations – We Go ‘On Metaphor Alert’ Again, as AU and EU Debate History.” Here are Professor Reilly’s “Key takeaways” (links omitted):
We recently saw the push for reparations take an international turn.
During their annual late-spring meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, leaders of the African Union “launched a new push for slavery and colonial reparations” – most notably for hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations focused on “trans-Atlantic slavery and the slave trade.” Indeed, “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations” was selected as the overall thru-line theme for all AU events and operations in 2025.
If we look with a cold and honest eye at the African Union’s demand for reparations from the European Union, it looks a lot like the folks who ran the supply side of the slave trade asking the folks who ran the demand side of the trade – but also ended all of it – to pay them apologetics for the entire trade. American Blacks could, very theoretically, petition either side of this foreign great power debate for a check. But, at this level of substantial and quarreling nations – i.e., today’s South Africa ($426,380,000), Egypt ($393,782,000), Algeria ($288,091,000), Nigeria ($285,091,000), and Morocco ($197, 610,000) have GDPs on par with major European states – “Who owes who?” seems like much more than a theoretical question?
In the world’s REAL super-power, we have the luxury of watching our friendly rivals spar over the answer!
Whole thing here.
