CNN’s far-left anchor Don Lemon, who was recently demoted, claimed while speaking to a royal expert, Hilary Fordwich, about reparations in Great Britain due to previous slavery and colonization by the country. He was not expecting the answer he got.
The Daily Caller reports:
In a clip making its rounds on Twitter, Lemon spoke out against the Royal’s family’s wealth, wondering whether it was time for them to pay reparations for past misdeeds. “All of this wealth — and you hear about it comes as England is facing rising cost of living … and then you have those who are asking for reparations for colonialism … some of those people want to be paid back. Members of the public are asking ‘why are we suffering when you have all of this vast wealth?’ Those are legitimate concerns,” Lemon said.
Fordwich initially appeared to agree with Lemon’s case for reparations, but then said that if reparations were to be paid, they would need to go back “to the beginning of the supply chain … that was in Africa.”
She went on to remind Lemon that Great Britain was among the first modern nations to abolish slavery and that African kingdoms were also complicit in the slave trade.
“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 and having them handcuffed in cages. Absolutely,” Fordwich said.
Fordwich then noted that 2,000 members of the British mavy “died on the high seas trying to stop slavery” and that the descendants of those sailors “should receive” reparations “at the same time.” Lemon was left with a look of a deer in the headlights.
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