The United Nations General Assembly, led by Ghana, recently passed a resolution by a 123-3 vote declaring that the “transatlantic” slave trade was the “gravest crime” ever committed against humanity. The resolution demands “reparatory justice” for “Africans and people of African descent” due to its “scale, duration, systemic nature, and brutality.” Why focus just on the transatlantic slave trade? Because the United Nations is engaged in a long-running con to extract reparations from the West by accusing it, and specifically the United States, of perpetrating the most nefarious crime in history. Of course, anyone with even an elementary grasp of history is aware that slavery was a near-universal institution practiced by people of every race and creed in every part of the world, going back to the first tribal societies. Every ancient empire across the globe put its...