A LITTLE while ago the UN voted to declare the transatlantic slave trade the greatest evil in human history and to demand reparations for the slave trade from all Western white majority nations, and particularly the UK.
The United States and other opposing nations argued that the resolution was not legally binding and that the UN’s mandate is limited to international peace and security, with the US specifically stating it ‘does not recognise a legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred’.
Despite this, the resolution emphasises that the trafficking of enslaved Africans caused a ‘definitive break in world history’ with enduring consequences, including persistent anti-black racism and systemic inequality.
What’s very clear here is that the UN wants reparations to be paid for slavery (but only from white nations to black nations and only regarding transatlantic slavery) and that this desire is shaped by contemporary black supremacist thinking derived from Critical Race Theory and ‘woke’ progressive ideology.
To be blunt, the UN is now an open instrument of hypocritical race hate, demanding the punishment of people who have never owned slaves for the crime of being white, on behalf of people who have never been slaves but are blessed with the ennobling good fortune to be black.
As it stands this morally obscene demand has no legal teeth and is ‘non-binding’. Those who dismiss the significance of this moment are quick to point out that a vote in the UN doesn’t have to be accepted or enacted by any of the nations being emotionally blackmailed and targeted for crippling payments which amount to a global tax on being white.
But that’s not really the problem here.
The problem is that if you think having no actual legal authority to do this will stop it happening, you’ve not really been paying attention to the last few decades or to the influence and power of the UN when it sets its mind to malign purposes.
The truth is that the UN isn’t one body. It’s a network of thousands of subsidiary institutions that it funds. Some of these are gigantic on their own, or massively influential on their own, such as the World Health Organization (think of its role in covid). Many others are obscure names even to those who follow politics and international affairs, but are well known in the corridors of power.
The demand for slavery reparations will be backed by all of these UN subsidiaries, arms and affiliates. It also has the express support of the African Union and of 123 nations that voted for the motion. The motion demands ‘concrete’ measures. This means setting up the means to pay.
Now look at the other side of the vote. Only three nations had the sanity and decency to resist this grotesque demand. The US, which would undoubtedly have voted the other way under Obama, Biden or Kamala; Argentina, which would have abstained or voted the other way under all its recent leaders prior to Milei, and Israel . . . which is rather used to standing virtually alone doing the right thing while the UN condemns it.
Nations that are the target of what amounts to a racial shakedown for the crime of having majority white populations, including the UK and EU nations, were too cowardly to call this thing for what it is, and even too cowardly to vote against it.
Because, for a start, in many cases they are led by people who are suffused by Marxist propaganda from university, which tells them that white history is shameful and to be denounced whereas black history is noble and to be celebrated.
By any rational measure the motion is an absurdity and the demand an insulting crime. Every society, race and nation in history engaged in some form of warfare, conquest and slavery. Both before and after the transatlantic slave trade Arabs were the chief slave traders of Africa, and at the height of European involvement black African kings and leaders were the people who allowed slavery in their territories, profited from it, and delivered slaves to colonialists.
To designate just one branch of a foul practice that occurred through all human history involving everyone as worthy of compensation, is to show how maliciously dishonest the whole thing is. More whites were abducted, enslaved and traded through history by blacks and Arabs than blacks were by white-skinned Europeans. Today, too, the places where slavery continues most fully and most persistently are outside Europe and the Western world. The people who did the most to end the transatlantic slave trade were the British, the nation being most targeted for a theft that demands trillions of pounds from an already struggling nation.
A few days ago I used search inquiries to try and calculate what Britain itself would be owed if the same logic of this UN demand was applied evenly and justly in both directions. I included:
* The estimated cost of the Royal Navy maintaining the Slavery Squadron for 60 years freeing slaves.
* The cost of paying 40 per cent of GDP via a loan only fully repaid in 2015 to free all the slaves in the British Empire.
* British infrastructure spending within former colonies (a very conservative estimate based only on major projects with most of the solid evidence only coming from 1914 onwards when government records on this were better).
* British foreign aid from 1945 (again, the recording of this improves from the 1970s onwards, so a conservative estimate here too).
* British payments to the UN since 1945 (Britain is consistently in the top five UN contributors, and often in the top three).
I did not include:
* Payments to the World Bank.
* Disaster relief payments made directly to other nations.
* The cost of wars conducted to liberate other nations (arguably both the First and Second World Wars).
* Payments to the EEC/EU.
* Payments to nations like Ukraine when supporting their war efforts.
* British funding of Nato.
* Any equivalent slavery reparations for all the British and their ancestors ever enslaved by anyone else.
Following the logic of the UN, arguably British descendants are owed at least £1.25trillion. Having not run the costs on the excluded items except WWII (£1.18trillion in modern figures) I’d estimate they are significantly higher, as a ballpark guess somewhere around £3-6trillion total. So the world actually owes Britain somewhere between £4.25trillion and £7.25trillion.
This is also without estimating any value from a few hundred years of major beneficial inventions and scientific advances, which Britain has arguably contributed more of than any other nation on Earth. We will chuck those in free.
Britain’s current total gross government debt is £3.08trillion.
If Britain claimed full reparations for past costs, we could pay off all our national debt accumulated over hundreds of years, and have the same amount of money spare to spend in a gigantic spending spree on ourselves. We could for example give every single existing UK citizen £44,100 after clearing all national debt.
This is the reply any sane government would give to the UN, while immediately ceasing all payments to it and leaving it for ever.
But all of this of course is only supposed to go in one direction. Nobody is supposed to know or care that British sailors spent 60 years patrolling the oceans in order to free slaves while African leaders were still practising slavery. Nobody is supposed to know or care that there are more slaves today than there were at the height of European colonialism. And nobody is supposed to know or care that people creating their cheap clothes in Chinese sweatshops, building the glittering hotel resorts of oil rich Arab nations, or mining the cobalt needed for ‘green energy’ components in African mines are all modern slaves right now.
Everyone is supposed to be as historically ignorant and as hypocritically racist as the UN itself, or as dishonest and grasping as the opportunistic leaders of Ghana, the country which proposed the UN motion. Everyone is supposed to have the braindead, fatuous smug stupidity of the modern progressive and support the most blatantly racist measure ever voted for by any international body in the name of addressing past grievances.
Whether disgustingly cynical blackmail or genuinely sincere insanity, the UN in passing this measure shows that it is indistinguishable from the worst racial grievance grifters in the Hate Whitey publishing industry.
All of which could be opposed and need not be worried about if our leaders had the slightest shred of sanity, pride and self-respect. The smallest iota of concern for their own citizens, or for justice in general, was all that was required for our leaders to say:
· The concept of racial historic guilt is itself disgustingly racist, the idea of ancestral guilt is utterly barbaric and uncivilised.
· Even if racial ancestral guilt could be treated as rational and just you’re applying this to the leastguilty people, historically speaking with reference to all slavery, on behalf of the mostguilty.
· Bugger off, we won’t pay a penny.
But we do not have such leaders.
And the recent record is that everything insane the UN or other transnational bodies demand, becomes the settled policy of the world soon after. That’s what we saw with covid and Net Zero. And that is what we will see with slavery reparations.
Western nations will agree to these extortion demands so long as they are led by people like Starmer, Macron or Carney. These people already agree to pay for climate change measures as a sort of Industrial Revolution tax. They have already shown that they will throw away billions on whatever the UN tells them. They have no love of us, our history or our economic well-being that would impel them to resist.
You do not need legal teeth to bite asinine Western rulers. Sustainable Development Goals did not need any formal apparatus of coercion and punishment before being adopted by Western nations who suffer by them. The same will be true of race hate reparations unless the kind of politicians who would submit to it, and the kind of institutions that demand it, are all swept away.
This article appeared in Jupplandia on March 31, 2026, and is republished by kind permission.
