Addis Ababa, December 8, 2021 (Walta) – In his open letter to President Joe Biden, a former Congressional Candidate Ted Alemayehu urged the former to request the African continent for an apology for the role the American government played during awful times in history.
The ex-congressional candidate highlighted in his letter that President Biden should tell Africa and her children what the U.S. Government did during the Transatlantic Slave Trade Era was wrong and acknowledge such to the continent. “Do not allow the African human suffering to be overlooked any longer. Silence is complicity. It is not who we are as a people. It is not what we stand for as a nation.”
During the 16th through 19th centuries, millions of Africans were kidnapped and forced into slavery in the American colonies, and eventually American states. That enormous African sacrifice also created generational wealth that still exists in the United States today.
“Yet, despite this valiant contribution by Africans to this country under extreme draconian conditions, the continent of Africa, its people, and its descendants, have never received a formal acknowledgment for such contributions, or a continental apology for the wrongs committed by this country and its government.”
As to him, the U.S. States boastfully brags about leading the world as the defender and supporter of Human Rights. Inalienable rights that Americans cherish so deeply in their country and expect friends around the globe to adopt, live by and defend.
“While the U.S. government continues to promote such rights, it has failed to recognize and acknowledge that it intentionally and unlawfully infringed on African Human Rights. It is time for America to look at itself in the mirror and admit that Africa’s Human Rights were violated by the Slave Trade and the government ordained institution of slavery.”
Ted pointed out that President Biden has an opportunity to do that with the African continent by issuing an apology. Africa deserves an apology. It is way overdue and it is the right thing to do.
Due to the Transatlantic Slave Trade Africa’s economy was reduced to a monoculture of selling human beings at the expense of developing other resources. The once strong and developed African states lost their stability and became fragmented by internal and external conflicts that still affect the continent today, he explained.
(Source – EPA)