Reparation News: In La Cieba, Honduras, 2002, in a forum sponsored by the United Nations, Working Group on Minorities, leaders of African descent from 19 countries, chose the term "Afrodescendant" as an identity. This represented for the first time United Nations recognition of 250 million Afrodescendants of the slavery diaspora, in the Americas, north, central and south and elsewhere. As a result of these representatives, representing over 250 million Black people of the diaspora, affected by slavery self declaration: the use of the term - Afrodescendant - refers to descendants of peoples who: 1. Were forcibly dispossessed of their homeland, Africa; 2. Were transported to the Americas and Slavery Diaspora for the purpose of enslavement; 3. Were subjected to slavery; 4. Were subjected to forced mixed breeding and rape; 5. Have experienced, through force, the loss of mother tongue, culture and religion; 6. And/or have experienced racial discrimination due to lost ties or partially lost ties from their original identity. We are asking our people to adopt the use of Afrodescendant as an identity, in unity with our other Brothers and Sister affected by european enslavement.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 02:29:07 +0000
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