The old don lemmon would have cut her off as soon as she mentioned africa.
The simple fact that she was allowed to speak is a huge change for both Lemon and CNN. It’s literally unprecedented.
I can see him desperately trying to control his natural desire to shut her up. Either he got instructions before the interview, or someone was sharing instructions in his earpiece.
Either way, it was beautiful, man. 😉
Reparations should be rejected outright. If you get into the minutiae of who gets what from whom, you’ve bought into the premise that reparations are owed. And we all know who will be there with piles of tax $$$$ to buy votes.
No one wants to admit it was West African Muslim kings/potentates/warlords who rounded up “infidels” from the interior to be sold
Slavery is still being practiced in Africa. Where is Don on that outrage?
True, slavery did start in Africa and the first slave owner in North America was black. But remember that 500,000 white Americans died to free black Americans. Should those 500,000 that died get their reparations?
They can get their money if they renounce their citizenship and move back to their ancestral homeland.
A moment of sanity on CNN!!!!
And it took a ‘Royal Expert’ to do it.
Holy Mother of Pearl!
I just saw a Hampshire, with it’s ears penned back by the wind, flying in formation with a Piper Cub.
For an idea as to how expensive that was, they finally paid off the debt in 2015. Not a typo.
Expensive but cost less then the way we did it, with a war.
No. You get no reparations.
Now about the land the slave descendants are living on, Jamaica, the Bahamas, etc....
Do these slave descendants have purchase receipts?
Slavery was and is an obcenity that was practiced worldwide, by African Blacks, Arabs, American Indians, and the white man. It was Black Africans that sold them to the white man. It should also be noted that many millions of whites were enslaved by the Muslims raiding Europe.
This institution of slavery is not the white man’s guilt. This guilt belongs to all. Relative to the USA over 650,000 soldiers died in the civil war, ending slavery here. Relative to the population then it would be 6,000,000 today.
Reparations have been paid in full, with the blood of those soldiers.
What do the slave descendants think is worth more, shiploads of sugar (less the cost of shipping), or the saltwater fronting/view islands of the Caribbean?
Black enslaved blacks, and some still do to this day.
Whites liberated blacks and ended slavery.
Although we are owed reparations and thanks, I will not ask each black person I meet to pay me money, a simple thanks will be enough. \s
The deer-in-the-headlights look on Lemon’s face made my morning.
“Originally inhabited by the indigenous Taíno peoples, the island came under Spanish rule following the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1494. Many of the indigenous people either were killed or died of diseases, after which the Spanish brought large numbers of African slaves to Jamaica as labourers. Named Santiago by the Spanish, the island remained a possession of Spain until 1655, when England (later Great Britain) conquered it, renaming it Jamaica. Under British colonial rule Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter, with a plantation economy dependent on the African slaves and later their descendants. The British fully emancipated all slaves in 1838, and many freedmen chose to have subsistence farms rather than to work on plantations. Beginning in the 1840s, the British began using Chinese and Indian indentured labour to work on plantations.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica
“When the English captured Jamaica, most Spanish colonists fled, with the exception of Spanish Jews, who chose to remain on the island. Spanish slave holders freed their slaves before leaving Jamaica.”
“In 1660, the population of Jamaica was about 4,500 white and 1,500 black.”
“During the 1700s the economy boomed, based largely on sugar and other crops for export such as coffee, cotton and indigo. All these crops were worked by black slaves, who lived short and often brutal lives with no rights.”
“The British abolished the slave trade in 1807, but not the institution itself. In 1831 a huge slave rebellion, known as the Baptist War, broke out, led by the Baptist preacher Samuel Sharpe. The rebellion resulted in hundreds of deaths and the destruction of many plantations, and led to ferocious reprisals by the plantocracy class. As a result of rebellions such as these, as well as the efforts of abolitionists, Britain outlawed slavery in its empire in 1834, with full emancipation from chattel slavery declared in 1838. The population in 1834 was 371,070, of whom 15,000 were white, 5,000 free black; 40,000 “coloured” or free people of colour (mixed race); and 311,070 were slaves.”
“In context, the £20 million voted by Parliament to compensate slave owners under the 1833 Act can be compared with the Gross Domestic Product of the UK in 1832, which was £459 million.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism_in_the_United_Kingdom
This all boils down to people wanting free money. There’s no moral crisis in their souls because if there was, people would be rabidly insisting present-day slavery be abolished. With military force.
There is nothing but *crickets* when modern slavery is brought up.
“The Act provided for payments to slave-owners. The amount of money to be spent on the payments was set at ‘the Sum of Twenty Million Pounds Sterling’. Under the terms of the Act, the British government raised £20 million to pay out for the loss of the slaves as business assets to the registered owners of the freed slaves. In 1833, £20 million amounted to 40% of the Treasury’s annual income or approximately 5% of British GDP at the time. To finance the payments, the British government took on a £15 million loan, finalised on 3 August 1835, with banker Nathan Mayer Rothschild and his brother-in-law Moses Montefiore; £5 million was paid out directly in government stock, worth £1.5 billion in present day.
“There have been claims the money was not paid back by the British taxpayers until 2015, however this claim is based on a technicality as to how the British Government financed their debt though undated gilts.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833
Annnnd THE WOMAN KING MOVIE was written by 2 white progressive women helping black dems bury the truth about the African slave trade...Darn it, that internet always getting in. the way of our lies........
Slavery was pretty much a private business matter.
Even if an emancipated slave was still alive, compensation would be due from the slave’s former master, and not the government.