http://www.unslaverymemorial.org (http://www.unslaverymemorial.org)
QuoteIn an effort to acknowledge the tragedy of slavery, racial prejudice and the lingering consequences of the centuries-long enslavement of and trade in Africans supplied to the colonies of the Americas and beyond, the General Assembly adopted resolution A/RES/62/122 in December 2007 entitled: Permanent Memorial to and Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This was the second of four successive resolutions on the issue.
Recognizing how little is known about the more than 400-year-long transatlantic slave trade and its lasting consequences, the resolution welcomes the increased attention that the General Assembly brought to the issue when it observed, for the first time on 25 March 2007 through resolution A/RES/61/19, the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, including the raising of its profile in many States.
The Permanent Memorial initiative should also be viewed, in a wider context, as a partial fulfilment of paragraph 101 of the Durban Declaration, adopted as an outcome of the international conference against racism held under the auspices of the United Nations, in Durban, South Africa in 2001. The paragraph, inter alia, calls upon the international community to honour the memory of the victims of slavery.
Australian TAXPAYERS will pay about $150,000 towards a New York memorial to the slave trade"We need to recognise the dark side of our own history and bring it into the light," Australia's Ambassador to the UN, Kevin Rudd said.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/aussies-shackled-to-kevin-rudds-bid-for-a-united-nations-seat/story-e6freuzr-1226274185249 (http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/aussies-shackled-to-kevin-rudds-bid-for-a-united-nations-seat/story-e6freuzr-1226274185249)
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/rudds_statue_is_it_because_we_are_white (http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/rudds_statue_is_it_because_we_are_white)
FYI Australia, which was first settled on White Victory Day 185 PC (January 26 1788 CE), was never a part of the Transatlantic or any other non-White slave trade. In fact, the first Governor of Australia, Captain Arthur Philip made sure that the natives of Terra Australis would not be subjected to slavery; a subject generally overlooked when Abos and White race-traitors refer to Arthur Philip as someone who committed genocide on what was then and still is today, an indolent, but rapacious race of people. However, Australia (except for South Australia) did participate in the White slave trade, making use of convict labourers transported for relatively minor offences such as stealing a loaf of bread or a handkerchief - contrary to common misconception, murders, rapists and other criminals were not transported to Australia; they were instead, hanged. (The same happened in North America prior to the American Rebellion, after which, the White slave trade from Britain ceased and the Transatlantic (African) slave trade went into full swing.)
So there's your history. Australia, which had absolutely nothing to do with the non-White slave trade, is falsely contributing towards another guilt laden tribute to the evils of being White; and in doing so, is assisting in the justification of the ongoing genocide of or our own people.
@Cailen.