Posted on 09/20/2022 7:08:20 AM PDT by rktman
During his show from London Monday night just hours after Queen Elizabeth II was laid to rest, CNN host Don Lemon brought up the issue of slavery and colonialism reparations during an interview with a British expert.
In the exchange, Lemon explained why some believe slavery reparations are necessary but may have been shocked about who his guest said should be paying the bill.
"You have those who are asking for reparations for colonialism and they're wondering, you know, $100 billion, $24 billion here, there, $500 million there. Some people want to be paid back and members of the public are suffering when you have all of this vast wealth. Those are legitimate concerns," Lemon said.
"I think you're right about reparations in terms if people want it though, what they need to do is you always need to go back to the beginning of the supply chain. Where was the beginning of the supply chain? That was in Africa," royal expert Hilary Forwich explained. "Across the entire world when slavery was taking place which was the First Nation in the world that abolished slavery? First Nation in the world to abolish it...was the British."
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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. 😉
Leftists are intimidated by foreign accents. They can’t get past their American ideal of the hillbilly racist.
There is a stretch in the piece: “In the exchange, Lemon explained...” really? ‘They’ explained?
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?
The modern welfare state is de facto reparations to people many generations removed from slavery.
They can get their money if they renounce their citizenship and move back to their ancestral homeland.
I think the Brits should demand reparations from The Italians (romans) and the French.
The Jews should demand reparations.. Well, from everybody.. But specifically the Egyptians, The Persians(iran), Babylonians (Iraq)..
And work our way up to the modern era on the reparations tree..
Years ago, I saw a story on the TODAY Show about a woman who killed her husband. I think they were recent North African immigrants. Anyway, he/they had won the lottery. They lived in the lap of luxury. When the police found his body, he had a one way plane ticket to Morocco, and a suitcase full of what they used to politely call “marital aids.” I remember thinking that if reparations ever came to pass, stories just as funny and bizarre would be rampant.
Do a search of murdered lottery winners ...there are lots of them.
Wow; I could imagine!
The Chappelle show had a skit on reparations (apologies for the length):
With “Wendy Mullen” in front of a liquor store in Queens, we are shown scores of Black people smiling and waving in a line stretching around a corner waiting to have their checks cashed. “Wendy” states that they have been standing in lines for hours. In fact, “Wendy” has clips of earlier interviews from those that already cashed their checks. We transition to a Black woman after cashing her check– indicated by her waving a wad of bills — she states,”Hide the money y’all, there’s poor peopla around. With your broke ass!!!”
In another of these mock interviews, “Wendy” asks a Black man in a Kools cigarette truck played by Donnell Rawlings was he going to quit his truck driving job. Rawlings’s character replies that he just bought that truck cash, and now has enough cigarettes to last him(and his family) a lifetime. As “Wendy” returns back to “Chuck” in the studio, “Chuck” is written to ask “Wendy” why there are no banks in the ghetto. To which “Wendy” responds,”Well, Chuck, that’s because banks hate Black people. But, I think that’s about to change.”
Continuing the skit’s theme of a news broadcast, “Chuck” proceeds to discuss the effect of this new injection of capital on markets. Financial correspondent “Michael Peterson” (a whyte male in a suit in tie with a stock ticker below him and a scene of stock market traders behind him) tells us that “these people are spending money like hot cakes”. He relays that Sprint prices have risen as two million deliquent phone bills had been paid off. Of course, they have “Michael” report that gold and diamond prices are their highest ever. In this world, oil prices have gone down, while chicken prices have shot up to six hundred dollars a bucket. He states that eight thousand record labels had been started in just that hour, and Cadillac had sold three million Escalade trucks that afternoon alone. To sum up that bit, “Michael” states,”these people seem to be breaking their necks just to give this money right back to us.”
A line that they use this “Michal Peterson” character to convey is that “the recession is over and we have no one else to thank but these Black people.”
We return back to Dave’s “Chuck Taylor” who announces a breaking story that the crime rate has fallen. This ends the first skit on this topic. This episode furthers with another monologue and man-on-the-street bit about award winning breasts. Closing this episode, however, we return to this alternate reality as “Chuck” reports that Blacks basketball players stopped playing for the NBA, and Bill Gates has “been overtaken” on Fortune magazine’s wealthiest people listing.
We are then taken to Harlem where “Tron”(also played by Chappelle) is questioned as to how he surpassed Bill Gates on that list. We see “Tron” surrounded by a group of brothers waving wads of dollars next to a baby carriage. “Tron” states that he won this money in a dice game. When asked was that baby in adjancent baby carriage his son, he states,”naw, I just bought this baby cash.” It concludes with a question inquirying his intents with all of his new found money. Dave has “Tron” assert,”[I’m going to] spend this money before you honkies change your minds!!!”
In one last segment, “Chuck” introduces “reliable, friendly, portly, Big Al”. “Big Al” (another performance by Dave Chappelle) stands in front of a weather chart with a gold chain and crown on. He immediately wishes his audience a “Happy Reparations Day, Happy Juneteenth”. Addressing “Chuck” he announces that he has turned in his resignation, hours ago. He then states that the voice he uses is not his real speaking voice, and he begins to talk in a deeper voice.
The best part.
“In other news, the crime rate has gone down to zero percent......What, did the Mexicans get reparations too?”
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.
Someone in the past posted slave trade routes and distribution of those slaves. The U.S. was NOT the biggest recipient of the trade. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of white folks captured and enslaved by mooselimbs over the years.
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.
Yeah..I’m familiar with the skit. The “...with yer broke ass.” line came to mind as I was posting.
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