Agreed Calendar March 23, 2022
RESOLUTION
21st Anniversary of the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
WHEREAS, kidnapped from a continent, put in chains, given the name "Negro" because it means Black in Spanish, enslaved for 246 years by governmental laws as a moveable property thing called Chattel, handed down to the descendants of slaveowners, guaranteeing generational wealth for them, is different from coming from countries, by choice, like immigrants and refugees; and,
WHEREAS, on May 17, 1954 ended 88 years of Jim Crow Segregation Laws ruled unconstitutional because they only existed to keep the status of the Negro down and caused serious heart and mind damage to Negro Children, which is genocide by definition; and,
WHEREAS, on or about August 31, 2001, the United Nations voted Chattel Slavery a crime against humanity, recommended reparations for descendants and said the world community needed to honor the memory of these tragedies which they called "the greatest holocaust in the history of humankind;" and,
WHEREAS, on June 18, 2009, the United States Senate (the House of Representatives concurring) apologized to African Americans on behalf of the people in the United States for the wrongs committed against them and their ancestors, who suffered under enslavement and Jim Crow Segregation Laws; and,
WHEREAS, they acknowledged the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of being forced into slavery and Jim Crow/genocide Laws that stripped them of their names and heritage; and,
WHEREAS, the Apology included former Presidents Bill Clinton and George Bush, saying the vestiges still exists today; and,
WHEREAS, every year the United Nations' International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, on the 25th of March, offers an opportunity to honor and remember those who suffered and died at the hands of the brutal slave system and also aims at raising ...
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