23/09/2022
Slave Reparations and History
CNN Don Lemon shut-down over slave reparations
OPINION: Slave Reparations
Don Lemon roasted over royal expert’s answer on Britain paying slave reparations.
Last night on CNN Don Lemon pushed a royal scholar named Hilary Fordwich to join him in lending credence to the slave reparations narrative that we’ve been hearing about. The left wants the royal family to distribute some of its billions of dollars in wealth to the descendants of slaves and people who are living in former royal colonies. She didn’t support their agenda, not one tiny bit.
The assistant producer who scheduled this might be out of a job. Perhaps CNN just paused and then moved on; it’s CNN, and they frequently take race issues for granted.
Don Lemon expected full capitulation from his guest which is what everybody expects on hyper-sensitive issues like this. It didn’t work out that way.
The United Kingdom was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery. It was started by William Wilberforce who opposed slavery; they abolished slavery. Two thousand sailors died on the high seas trying to stop slavery. Why? Because the African kings were rounding up their own people; they had the cages waiting on the beaches, waiting for the mostly Dutch slave ships. No one was running into Africa to get them and I think you’re totally right 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? Absolutely Africa is where they should start. Also maybe the British sailors that died on the high fees, trying to stop the slavery, those families should receive something too I think. African nations paying slave reparations; it’s an interesting discussion. – Hilary Fordwich
Slave reparations may be the single most divisive idea in American politics. Advocates have spent decades calling on the U.S. government to make slave reparations.
