Debate contribution: Andrew Jackson

Debate contribution by Mr Gerry Carroll on 31 March 2025.

MLA: Mr Gerry Carroll
Party at the time: People Before Profit Alliance
Date: 31 March 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Andrew Jackson
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4872030

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I remind the Minister that it was slave revolts that ended slavery in the primary sense. Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who toured this island and whose statute is in Belfast, stated:
"The sunlight that brought light and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn."
Does the Minister agree that it is important to centre the voices and experiences of the black community in Ireland and America when there is talk about the Declaration of Independence anniversary?

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This follow-up belongs to: Topical question AQT 1196/22-27.

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