On March 25, 2026, one hundred and twenty-three nations voted at the United Nations General Assembly to declare the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity. The resolution itself is an insult to the dignity of every victim — those in the diaspora and those whose ancestors remained on the continent. Those who proposed it are at best ignorant of what they have done and at worst opportunists serving their own ambitions. The institution that received it, the states that adopted it, and the framework through which any remedy would flow are all instruments of the same project whose crime the resolution names. You cannot indict a crime using the instruments of the criminal.