‘The most serious offense against humanity’: What implications does the UN’s decision on slavery carry?

It is significant that even Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States, did not actively advocate for, suggest, or back any reparations initiative during his eight years in office. In a 2016 conversation with author and activist Ta-Nehisi Coates shortly before his departure from the presidency, Obama expressed his view that the nation’s political framework rendered reparations nearly impossible to implement.