Posted on 09/20/2022 9:23:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.”
The look on Lemon’s face was priceless.
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Rude and inappropriate of Don Lemon to mention reparations now of all times.
Don Lemon now knows the answer to “Who $hit in my Easter basket?”
Nothing like an answer to a “gotcha question” like a ball-busting kick in the nuts.
There’s still slavery in the world Don Lemon.
And there’s sex trafficking and slavery lite-coming across our borders today. People selling their labor in Chinese food processing plants for next to nothing. Working dangerous jobs for less than minimum for ‘elites’...
Why the hell doesn’t Don Lemon get together with democrats who ‘care so much about slavery’ and DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SLAVERY THAT EXISTS IN OUR TIME?
My family fought in the Civil War - WE did our part when it mattered. How about it Don Lemon - ARE YOU willing to do something about the slavery in OUR TIME other than feel sorry for yourself and angry with everyone from a hundred years ago? Or are you willing to get off your fat butt and do something ABOUT TODAY’S ABUSES?
Yeah, I get it - big pity party for yourself and the folks who never do anything to help anyone but themselves. Black democrats. Disgusting - - just another big pity party. Wallow away Don Lemon...
“Africans were sold into slavery by their own ‘brothers’ and by ISLAMIC MUSLIM SLAVERS.”
Blacks who want reparations in the US must start at the beginning also. Because there were so many Blacks who were slave owners themselves one would have to prove he/she was a descendant of a slave owner who was white.
such as abolishing the Hindu custom of throwing widows on funeral pyres.
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I’m against that but the moose limb custom of tossing queers off of tall buildings bears further scrutiny.
People that have no knowledge of history think the present is the past. I am so sick of people applying current values to generations that went to their graves a century or more ago.
Agreed.
Give her a raise!
“should the families of Union soldiers who died during the Civil War receive reparations as well?”
They did, in the form of pensions paid to the veterans, their widows and children. At least one such pension was still being paid as of mid 2020 to the surviving child of a Union Army veteran.
Yep.
Irene Triplett died around June 2020, age 90. Her father was in his 80s when she was born.
Don Lemon should pay reparations.
He lives a privileged media life.
While the people who watch him make a fraction of what he does.
To be fair, England set up the trade triangle - slaves to America, tobacco to England. The colonists had to obey King George III, so they should be held less accountable.
African chieftains followed the same principle accept that
they could also sell excess slaves to Europeans for wealth.
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A bunch of purchased slaves came to the location to be called
the USA after 1492. They became the ones to clean/wash/cook
and clear/plant/harvest the fields for food, etc. Later the civil
war became their freedom from slave labor and became citizens.
She’s lying.
The British claim they outlawed slavery in 1837, and they did, except for the places where they didn’t.
The 1837 law only affected Great Britain proper, its Caribbean and South American colonies, and British South Africa. It didn’t affect the colonies in the rest of Africa or in Asia.
Britain’s African colonies continued to practice slavery (and the slave trade) until the latter 19th Century and at least one did so through the cusp of the 20th Century.
And British Hong Kong still openly practiced a form of slavery called “mui tsai” until the until the 1930s.
So slavery well and truly had been abolished in the US for three-quarters of a Century when British subjects were still actively practicing it.
RE: The British claim they outlawed slavery in 1837, and they did, except for the places where they didn’t.
In the places where they didn’t was it because they REALLY WANTED slavery in place, or was it because they weren’t able to fully control and implement the ban everywhere? Remember, the Sun never set on the British Empire in the 19th century.
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