By Matthew Russell Lee
UNITED NATIONS, March 25 -- To build at the UN a memorial to the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, a committee is seeking to raise $4.5 million. So far the big donors are India with $260,000 and Australia with $100,000.
What about the United States, Inner City Press asked Ambassador Raymond Wolfe of Jamaica on Friday.
Ambassador Wolfe said he discussed the matter with US Permanent Representative Susan Rice but that she said the US Mission does not have money to make such contributions, it would have to go through Congress.
Inner City Press pointed out to Ambassador Wolfe that the US Mission and State Department recently allowed the UN to keep $100 million in US Tax Equalization Funds without any Congressional approval. Wolfe indicated he may look into that route.
Later in the Delegates' Entrance to the General Assembly, Wolfe and the Ambassador of Cameroon noshed on a sort of three bean salad and other Cameroonian specialties like dried bananas -- Inner City Press was told there's exploration of packaging for export. And so it goes at the UN.
