'My nation's original sin': Biden apologizes to delegation of African leaders for the 'unimaginable

[mystery-ak]

'My nation's original sin': Biden apologizes to delegation of African leaders for the 'unimaginable cruelty' of slavery and offers them $55billion - as Rwandan president mocks US in front of laughing crowd

    Joe Biden on Wednesday hosted most of Africa's leaders in Washington for the first time since 2014, reviving a summit begun by Barack Obama
    Biden said his country and Africa were united by America's 'original sin', and the 'stolen men and women and children brought to our shores in chains'
    Rattled by China's massive investment in Africa, Biden on Wednesday announced $55 billion to be spent on health, climate change and trade
    Paul Kagame, Rwanda's president, was asked before Biden's speech whether anything has come from the 2014 summit, and said they had achieved little

By Dailymail.com Reporter

Published: 02:21 EST, 15 December 2022 | Updated: 06:27 EST, 15 December 2022

Joe Biden on Wednesday apologized for the 'unimaginable cruelty' of slavery, which he referred to as America's 'original sin', and pledged $55 billion in investment to the continent.

Speaking during a gathering of almost all African leaders in Washington DC - the first since Barack Obama convened a summit in 2014 - Biden expressed regret for the past, but insisted: 'The United States is all in on Africa's future.'

During a White House dinner honoring African leaders and their spouses, Biden addressed what he called America's 'original sin' - the enslavement of millions of people - and honored their descendants and the broader African diaspora community in the United States.

'Our people lie at the heart of the deep and profound connection that forever binds Africa and the United States together,' he said. 

'We remember the stolen men and women and children were brought to our shores in chains, subjected to unimaginable cruelty.'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11540633/My-nations-original-sin-Biden-apologizes-slavery-offers-Africa-55b-investment.html

[mountaineer]

Africans captured their fellow Africans and sold them to slave traders. Seems like the "original" sin was theirs.

[The_Reader_David]

One wonders whether any of the African delegation were direct descendants of the Kings of Benin or the rulers of any of the other slave-taking states or tribes who sold their fellow Africans to Europeans in the first place.  These apologies would well be in order if those Africans whose ancestors were slavers issued parallel apologies to Americans (and Brazilians and Jamaicans,...) whose ancestors their ancestors had enslaved.

[cato potatoe]

Africans captured their fellow Africans and sold them to slave traders. Seems like the "original" sin was theirs.

Yeah - didn't we pay them already? 

[sneakypete]

'My nation's original sin': Biden apologizes to delegation of African leaders for the 'unimaginable cruelty' of slavery and offers them $55billion - as Rwandan president mocks US in front of laughing crowd

@mystery-ak

And to think it was THEIR ancestors that enslaved other blacks to sell to the whites is going to be totally ignored.

Wonder how much of a cut out of that $55 billion goes to US pols as a kickback?

[sneakypete]

Yeah - didn't we pay them already?

@cato potatoe

Don't ya just HAVE ta wonder WHY none of the black leaders of today want to raise statues and praise for the BLACK man that went to court to enslave his BLACK indentured servant in Colonial Virginia,thus CREATING slavery by non-natives in North America?

I write "non-natives" because the people already here when the white man first arrived had been enslaving people from other tribes since the dawn of history.

[Hoodat]

'My nation's original sin': Biden apologizes to delegation of African leaders for the 'unimaginable cruelty' of slavery and offers them $55billion - as Rwandan president mocks US in front of laughing crowd

PUBLISHED: 02:21 EST, 15 December 2022 | UPDATED: 06:27 EST, 15 December 2022

Joe Biden on Wednesday apologized for the 'unimaginable cruelty' of slavery, which he referred to as America's 'original sin', and pledged $55 billion in investment to the continent.

Speaking during a gathering of almost all African leaders in Washington DC - the first since Barack Obama convened a summit in 2014 - Biden expressed regret for the past, but insisted: 'The United States is all in on Africa's future.'

During a White House dinner honoring African leaders and their spouses, Biden addressed what he called America's 'original sin' - the enslavement of millions of people - and honored their descendants and the broader African diaspora community in the United States.

'Our people lie at the heart of the deep and profound connection that forever binds Africa and the United States together,' he said.  .  .

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11540633/My-nations-original-sin-Biden-apologizes-slavery-offers-Africa-55b-investment.html



After 160 years, a Democrat finally comes around.  Yet uses other people's money to cleanse his own conscience.

And why give money to the same African countries who forced people into slavery and sold them in the first place?

[MOD3]

Merged.

[corbe]

   He probably thinks that CWI was fought over slavery, too.

[Smokin Joe]

Ludicrous.

Only 5% of the African Slave trade was bound for American Shores (former English Colonies).

Americans didn't invent slavery, and had, by that metric, a fairly small market share.