Posted on 09/20/2022 7:01:57 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Recently demoted CNN host Don Lemon was caught like a deer in the headlights Monday night when he asked British royal commentator Hillary Fordwich whether the British royal family should pay reparations, claiming that some in the United Kingdom “want to be paid back.”
“England is facing rising costs of living, a living crisis, austerity budget cuts, and so on. And then you have those who are asking for reparations for colonialism, and they’re wondering, you know, $100 billion, $24 billion here and there, $500 million there,” Lemon explained. “Some people want to be paid back, and members of the public are wondering, ‘Why are we suffering when you are, you know, you have all of this vast wealth?’ Those are legitimate concerns.”
Her response was epic. After initially giving the impression that she agreed with Lemon, she schooled him royally.
“Well, I think you’re right about reparations in terms of if people want it, though, what they need to do is you always need to go back to the beginning of a supply chain,” Fordwich replied. “Where was the beginning of the supply chain? That was in Africa, and when it crossed the entire world, when slavery was taking place, which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery? The first nation world to abolish it, it was started by William Wilberforce, was the British. In Great Britain, they abolished slavery.”
She continued, “Two thousand naval men died on the high seas trying to stop slavery. Why? Because the African kings were rounding up their own people, they had them on cages waiting in the beaches. No one was running into Africa to get them. And I think you’re totally right.”
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aka “Dumb Lemming”
Everyone at FR should appreciate that woman who shut down the entire production crews at CNN, cause CNN couldn't think.
Native Americans owned the Caribbean islands.
Kindly leave for Africa and Europe ASAP.
I think Mexico abolished it earlier.
Britain & the Tories were responsible for the settling of slaves in Northern America
It depended on the tribe.
In Dahomey, they had annual rites where the killed off hundreds of slaves and ate a fair number of them.
The founding of Dahomey is linked with human sacrifice and cannibalism.
1829
He sure shut down the interview fast at that point without asking any follow up questions.
She lied but Lemon is too unlearned to call her on it.
Britain’s Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 didn’t end slavery everywhere in the (not so) United Kingdom. Slavery continued in British East Africa (modern-day Kenya) until 1904. And in Zanzibar (which didn’t become a British protectorate until 1890) until 1909.
So rather than being at an end, there were British subjects still keeping slaves 45 years after the 13th Amendment became law in America.
Not to mention Hong Kong, which had had a system of indentured servitude for young girls from impoverished families sold to wealthy families and serving as domestic until they came of age and got married. That started before the British took it as a colony, and apparently the British never managed to beat it out of them.
1837
He is, and I really hope he enjoys his new morning gig and that I never have to see his stupid queer face again.
Americans should never trifle with the British over their history. Anyone who does deserves no sympathy.
Britain’s Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 didn’t end slavery everywhere in the (not so) United Kingdom.
She did not lie: "In Great Britain, they abolished slavery."
The British colonies were not in Great Britain.
Don’t forget that the first slave owner in America was a black man. Anthony Johnson - 1651.
So the American colonials were mistaken to think they were subject to British law? ... Because they "were not in Great Britain"?
It's called "empire" for a reason.
We have been conditioned to think of slavery in terms of a white man holding a black man against his will. This fact strikes at the heart of how easily we have surrendered the truth of history, and it explains completely false narrative of Black Lives Matter and the social justice industrial complex. 500,000 Americans died to free the slaves. The end.
Meaningless and mindless facts. Climb a bit, you’ll see the forest.
I don’t recall the state, but it abolished it in the 1700s
The Slavery Abolition Act did apply to the Caribbean & South American colonies, and to South Africa. The British Parliament deliberately excluded the other African colonies, and the Asian colonies.
Whether they were "in Great Britain" or not didn't enter into it.
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