{"id":1207223,"date":"2022-09-19T16:39:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/kofi-jamar-apologises-for-slave-trade-comment\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T16:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:39:19","slug":"kofi-jamar-apologises-for-slave-trade-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/kofi-jamar-apologises-for-slave-trade-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Kofi Jamar apologises for slave trade comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rapper Kofi Jamar has apologised for his comments suggesting that slave trade and colonisation had benefited black people.<\/p>\n

In a post on Twitter, he stated that he did not, by any means, want to suggest that slavery was a good thing to have happened to Africans and the many victims across the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI apologise for my tweet. My great grandfather, Prempeh the 1st, was captured as a result of the colonial regime, I\u2019ve been affected by what happened in many ways,\u201d the \u2018Ekorso\u2019 hitmaker stated.<\/p>\n

This comes after the Kumerican rapper, in a now-deleted post on Twitter, had noted that without the slave trade the black people may not have had as great of an impact on the world as they do today.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur ancestors really knew what they were doing when they sold most Africans into slavery. I swear we wouldn\u2019t have had the likes of the Blues, RnB, Rock and Roll, Rap , Hip Hop\u2026 This is a great impact on the world as we see today,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

Kofi Jamar added that \u201cblacks have benefited and impacted the world a lot in so many ways due to that migration. Shhh we wouldn\u2019t have had the likes of Jay Z, Lebron, Michael Jackson, Kanye West, Virgil Abloh and a whole lot you can mention (sic),\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

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However, after facing massive criticisms from people on social media, Kofi Jamar deleted his posted and apologised for making such comments.<\/p>\n

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He rather maintained that despite its gory pasts, many black people have had a significant influence on the world today due to slavery.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlthough the deed of slavery is wrong, I can\u2019t deny the impact blacks have had on the world today because of that,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rapper Kofi Jamar has apologised for his comments suggesting that slave trade and colonisation had benefited black people. In a post on Twitter, he stated that he did not, by any means, want to suggest that slavery was a good thing to have happened to Africans and the many victims across the world. \u201cI apologise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[57,1332,18857,1088,7224,915],"class_list":["post-1207223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-apologises","tag-comment","tag-jamar","tag-kofi","tag-slave","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}