GHANA REMEMBERS THE DARK PAST AFTER THE POPE’S EMOTIONAL APOLOGY

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Okay. Now the popemania very respected by the Catholic community, Christian Catholic. He expressed himself in a very interesting way. He said, "I am sorry." He expressed deep sorrow and immense suffering, you know, and humiliation endured by many. He says he acknowledged that the holy had in the early modern period responded to European rulers by issuing documents that regulated and legitimized forms of subjugation including enslavement of infidels. So in easy English he's saying you know what we are sorry as a church for allowing powerful people to do slavery. We actually legitimize slavery. So the holy pope says in Ghana, we are sorry. This is the very first time they say it very clearly. We are sorry, we apologize because there was document that allowed people in power to subdue and subjugate everybody who was not Christian.

[00:01:01]Therefore they used it into slavery.

[00:01:03]Peter McCovi Baba. Yeah. Don't be jealous. Now he called the church records a wound in Christianity memory and formally asked for pardon in the name of the church.

[00:01:18]You know most of these countries when you say to them apologize for the negative things you did to the past.

[00:01:22]Yeah you know the past was bad let's focus on the future. That's what they do. French people say that all the time.

[00:01:28]French president let's focus on the future. France cannot be Yeah. Even Americans they they apologize for whatever just No. This man has said we apologize as a church. Obviously uh this is reported as the clearest and most direct papal apology of the Vatican since the beginning. This is the very time they apologize for real. So why is he apologizing? I know a lot of people asking question like is this truth? Did the church get involved in slavery? Did the church play a role? Well, the church did play a role. There was documents that officially authorized slavery. Yes.

[00:02:06]Now, I need you to rethink your religion. I think it's necessary. You may retake your religion. That's just fine. But I think you shouldn't deprive yourself of the opportunity to rethink your religion. Your religion allowed slavery. How? Well, there was two fundamental documents that were issued by Pope Nicholas 5. This is Nicholas 5.

[00:02:29]It was June 18,452 that Nicholas 5 issued two document. The first one said explicitly authorizing the Portuguese king to invade to capture and enslave non-Christian. This direct exerpt, you know, was translated from Latin, okay, Latin if you prefer. We gr this is what they say. We grant you by the present document with the apostolic authority full and free permission to invade to invade search out capture and subjugate the sarassins and pagans and any other unbelievers and enemies of the Christ wherever they may be as well as their kingdom duchies, counties, principalities and other properties and to reduce this person into perpetual slavery.

[00:03:22]This is the pope telling other white fellas, you can go across the world and you can reduce anything that we deem sarcasins or sarassins. Anybody we think pagan to be unbeliever. Anyone we think is our enemy or enemy of the Christ, you must reduce them. Their countries and counties and principalities and their properties, they must be into perpetual slavery. So then slavery was justified morally and spiritually. In the same way extremist in that religion which I'm not going to Yeah. They will explode you and bomb you because they believe it's it's religious. So this is what it is. I mean slavery always makes me feel some type of way because millions of people were taken to the Americans. You know millions of people in Brazil in the Caribbeans to go work in field of cotton and coffee and sugar cane field crazy stuff being beaten by snakes and crazy other things. Now my question number one is this one. I mean how many boats came to pick up slaves? How big were there?

[00:04:24]Let's say there was 10 boats. How many soldiers from Europe could come into 10 boats? I'm just trying to figure out how did they manage to take all these black people? How did they accept to go? Like I wouldn't accept to go. I I don't like I read the die there. How do you take me from my country to somewhere I don't even know. How did they manage to do that? Let's say there was 10 soldiers and a million Africans. How did 10 soldiers manage to take a million African in a boat? Okay, let's say there were 100 soldiers per boat. How do 100 soldiers manage to take 10,000 people by force?

[00:04:58]Something doesn't line up, right? Okay, so there must be something interesting.

[00:05:03]Either there was an arrangement with some of the kings and some of the whatever saying that you're going temporarily, okay, and you're going to be coming back. You're just working. you're going to get paid for it and then you come because it makes no rational sense to me that 100,000 people will be abducted by 1,000 people with guns. It makes no sense.

[00:05:23]If you don't want to go, you may as well jump off the the ship. Okay? It makes no sense based on the amount of people that are on the other side. How did they get so soft? How did they accept to be subjugated, you know, reduced into people [ __ ] on themselves in this very How did they get that? Well, my only logical understanding of this is there was not a necessarily forceful action to get them to get into the boat.

[00:05:50]I think there was a convincing pattern. There was somebody convincing them, listen, you're just going for a while. It's not bad. They're going to take you. You got to do some work, then you'll be back. Then they go like, you know what, the king has spoken. Let's just obey what the king said. I I think that's all that makes sense because it would not make sense that 100,000 people be forced to go work by force by 10,000 people.

[00:06:13]This makes no sense. Why don't you accept to to just be an alived well I read a book about that by Dr. Akosu very in details about what's happened very interesting insights many people actually jumped overboard. They just said enough and like, you know what? I'm not going to accept this. I'm jumping.

[00:06:33]They were eaten by sharks. Even though there were times where some of the guys that were trying to to to to march against the white men on the boat, they were supposed to be shot and thrown overboard to avoid him transferring his mentality to other people and getting them to get excited as much as he is.

[00:06:53]There were many people that jumped overboard. You know, they couldn't just go into slavery. I would have been one of those people. I'm telling you, there's no way you taking me by force.

[00:07:00]Absolutely not. There's no way you are taking me by force. I will not be anybody's ancestors that work at the field. No way. Knowingly, no. Unless I was lied to. Like, you're just going to go, it's a contract. You're going to go work for for 10 weeks, then you'll be back. Maybe that's the reason why some of them went because it makes no logical sense. Anyway, slavery is a reality.

[00:07:21]Many African people was enslaved in the Americas, in Brazil, in the US, in the Caribbeans. They are our brothers. We love you. We miss you. We want to experience you. We want to share time with you. We want you in our lives. No doubt about it. We have differences and that's fine. When you take two children from the same father and mother, you put them apart for for 11 years. When you bring them together, usually they have differences. It's depend on how you grew up. It doesn't mean they're enemies. You are not our enemy. Absolutely not. You may have had some negative experience with some black Africans, but that's fine. It's not me. It's not me.

[00:07:56]minorities, my brothers and my friends, we want to experience it. Now, you must remember slavery was not limited by only, you know, Christian uh stuff. They were, you see the country you don't name, you know that country you don't name, right?

[00:08:10]Yeah. They they were the masters. They were the biggest slave owners, but they've changed history. They've erased that part. They don't want you to know about that. They were the biggest slave owners. They owns the big the most amount of ships that took slaves across the sea. The country you don't name.

[00:08:27]Yeah, that's country.

[00:08:30]Yes. And also slavery was not limited to white people. Okay. One of the most vicious slavery system was brought by Arabs. Yes. Arabs, enslaved Africans in massive numbers. Bad, bad, bad.

[00:08:45]countries like Tanzania still leaves the the wounds and still bleeds from that.

[00:08:51]It's absolutely insane. The mulongu in Tanzania is Arab. Yes, Arab is the mulong in Tanzania. In places like South Africa, Mulong is really mongu. In Kenya, Mulong is mongu. Mong is the real Mongu. In Uganda, the mong is mongu. In Tanzania, Mulong is Arab.

[00:09:08]Yes, they are treated the same way. They treat them like the Anyway, that's what it is, fellas. The pope has just apologized say I'm sorry in the name of church. We issued documents. It was just not not just speech. We issued documents legitimizing slavery. You can go get somebody as long as he's not white like you. As long as he's doesn't pray your god, he's not Christian. He's pagan. You can take everything that belongs to you and enslave him. Let me know how you feel about this. Uh the worst part is they say sorry, they don't pay. Okay.

[00:09:38]with American Indians. They said sorry.

[00:09:40]They paid them money, a lot of billions of dollars because they they went to their country and they they they unalive them with diseases and stuff like that.

[00:09:49]The people from the country you don't know when they were unalive in Germany.

[00:09:53]Germany said sorry but just not sorry.

[00:09:55]They paid also. Okay. They paid them money. America still gives them money every month. But for you they will tell you you must forget. You know that's happened in the past. You must forget it's it's years now. You need to move forward. That's what it is. Please let me know how you feel about them. They will say you must never forget. They have a day to celebrate what's happened in the past. But you they ask you to move on. You must forget. This happens after Ghana president went to the United Nation and saying you need to recognize slavery as the worst crime against humanity. Slavery should be the worst crime against humanity.

[00:10:28]Number one. Well, everybody said yes.

[00:10:31]They agree. And two countries said no.

[00:10:32]We don't agree during the war. Which country? Do you know? Yes. The United States of America. Number two was what?

[00:10:38]The country you don't name. Okay. They don't want you to say that your slavery is the worst crime against humanity.

[00:10:45]Why? Because they feel like it diminishes what they've gone through.

[00:10:49]There's no such thing as a slave. There were human beings who were trafficked and then enslaved by people who believed they could own those human beings as chatels as their personal property.

[00:11:05]Obviously, you have to pump people.

[00:11:07]We've suffered. We've gone through things. Now, if you say to the world that slavery was worse than what you guys have suffered, you can't be crying crying in rivers anymore because all the black people are not crying. You know what I'm saying? Not forgetting that some of them were some of the biggest traders in slave, you know, they the most ships and boats that carried slaves. They don't tell you that they've erased that part of the history. Let me know how you feel about this. It's always a great pleasure. God bless.