You just have to see this: CNN’s recently demoted host, Don Lemon, built his career race baiting toping and pushing for reparation. While speaking with British royal commentator Hillary Fordwich, Lemon demanded that the royals pay reparations. The way this gal slaughtered Lemon was tv gold.
“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.”
Initially, Fordwich gave the impression that she agreed with Lemon, but in a quick twist, 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.”
Her history lesson continued:
“If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, ‘Who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages?’ Absolutely. That’s where they should start. And maybe, I don’t know, the descendants of those families where they died at the, in the high seas trying to stop the slavery, that those families should receive something too, I think, at the same time.”
After she was done, Lemon visibly shocked, “It’s an interesting discussion, Hillary, Thank you very much, I appreciate it.”
Watch:
Lemon had to take a few seconds to collect his thoughts before moving on from that one. I guess Lemon forgot how it all started?
H/T to Tom Elliot for sharing the video on Twitter- Priceless
