Royal Expert Gives CNN a Harsh Reality Check About Slavery Reparations

townhall.com ^ | 9/20/2022 0830 hrs edt | Katie Pavlich

[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."

[Brian Griffin]

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.

[MeganC]

“But why did they go to war to “free the slaves?” That could have been done peacefully using the constitutional amendment process in - say, 1848 - or even earlier.”

For some people the end of slavery was just a bellwether for the increasing and disproportional power of the Northern states. Also, a Constitutional amendment to end slavery prior to the Civil War would have never mustered the necessary state legislature votes for ratification.

The other issue wasn’t just North vs. South but a clash of Industrial/Urban culture with Agrarian/Rural culture. A paradigm that we see occurring today with urban leftists clashing with rural Americans.

[scrabblehack]

No way would they have gotten 2/3 of the Senate.

[TheDon]

They received no compensation for their lost property unlike the British.

[Salvavida]

I am surprised no one has promised (Mid-Terms and all) to submit a bill proposing making slavery a capital offense in the United States and US Territories; the scope including human trafficking for feeding the sex industry.

To include a special court that is funded to make it an HOV lane to the death house within a year.

[kearnyirish2]

They wouldn’t even broadcast this stuff at this point...

[WKUHilltopper]

LOL. If Lemon had balls she would have ripped them right off of him.

[jeffersondem]

“Also, a Constitutional amendment to end slavery prior to the Civil War would have never mustered the necessary state legislature votes for ratification.”

If it is true that Lincoln did not have the votes to peacefully amend the pro-slavery U.S. Constitution prior to the war - there is evidence that was the case - then perhaps Lincoln's plan after the House Divided speech was to use war to overthrow the pro-slavery U.S. Constitution. Many people are firmly convinced Lincoln "fought to free the slaves."

But to levy war against the states Lincoln would need a pretext. He possibly found that when he used the navy to create the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.

I meant to say the Fort Sumter Incident.