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French president caves to reparations demands?
The most recent bout of astroturfed, increasingly intense demands for slavery reparations from the West — the first civilization in history, ironically, to abolish the practice in a world that hitherto saw slavery as a given — began, as I chronicled at PJ Media at the time, with reporting that none other than George Soros had been quietly building an NGO empire behind the scenes aimed at lobbying the West for reparations.
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Then came a United Nations resolution in March parochially condemning the colonial-era transatlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity.”
Then came some weird human-interest story repeated ad nauseam in legacy media in which a random 86-year-old Frenchman purported to be the descendant of slavers joined forces with some African migrant purported to be the descendant of slaves to demand reparations.
You could see the groundswell of pressure mounting from all quarters — the manufacturing of consent, if you will forgive the borrowing of a very accurate phrase from an otherwise dubious figure in Noam Chomsky.
Now, President Macron, who previously had withheld comment, appears poised to concede to the demands and back some official reparations regime.
Via The Guardian (emphasis added):
Emmanuel Macron has said reparations for France’s role in hundreds of years of enslavement of African people is an issue that should be addressed, but he stopped short of making clear proposals.
“How to repair … is a question that must not be refused,” the French president said in a speech on the legacies of slavery at the Élysée Palace. “It’s also a question on which we must not make false promises.”
Macron’s use of the term reparations broke a historic taboo at the head of the French state, where leaders have previously avoided the word. But he did not define the exact form of any potential reparations or reparatory justice, nationally or internationally, and did not discuss financial repair.
He said: “We must have the honesty to say that we can never fully repair this crime, because it is impossible. You will never one day be able to put a number on it, or find words that would bring this history to a close.”
Macron said France and Ghana would jointly launch an international scientific research project that would make “solid recommendations to political decision-makers” on the issue of addressing legacies of enslavement, saying “we must engage with honesty in dialogue and work to continue this path.”
Macron said French identity could not be “built on denial” and “we have to restore the truth to our history and give it its full place.”
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Guaranteed that, if the Democrats get back into power, they’re going to jump on the reparations bandwagon and even extend the list of beneficiaries to illegal immigrants
Democrat Rep. Pramila Jayapal demands ICE prosecutions, 'reparations' for illegal migrants pic.twitter.com/Lrhh6X4eKZ
— Ben Bartee (@BenBartee) March 29, 2026
