DMUK: CNN anchor Don Lemon was at a loss for words after a royal commentator told him slavery reparations are necessary – but said they should be paid by the descendants of ‘African kings’ who sold their own people into slavery.
Lemon interviewed Hilary Fordwich on September 13, following Queen Elizabeth II‘s death, and suggested the British royal family should pay reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
In the interview, which went viral on Twitter this week, Fordwich responded by arguing that African leaders were responsible for supplying millions of enslaved people to European slave traders, saying that reparations should come from African nations.
A stunned Lemon responded that it was an ‘interesting discussion’ and quickly concluded the interview.
From the 16th to the late 19th century, at least 12 million African men, women and children were enslaved and transported to the Americas, where they were traded as chattel property primarily by Europeans and Euro-Americans.
While many Africans resisted the slave trade, others did actively participate in it by capturing and enslaving other Africans and bringing them to slave castles on the West and Central African coast to sell to European traders. WATCH
BaZinga
THAT WAS THE BEST..UH, SECOND BEST FEELING THIS WEEK
Wonder how he likes dealing with a new group of players since being “promoted” to the morning shows?
First-year law students, when taking the court procedure class, learn that you never ask a question that you don’t know the answer to. I’m surprised his dad, a preeminent attorney, did not teach him this early on. Although when your son is blowing his classmates for their lunch money, the lines of communication get a bit muddled.
Lemon clearly learned all he need to know by watching The Woman King.
Where would you be today Mr mr. lemon if the African tradition of slavery hadn’t been practiced in this country? ps, slavery is alive and well in Africa and Obamas relatives rounded your ancestors up and Kamala family sold you cattle.
like cattle. Sorry
The British stopped engaging in the slave trade ca 1830. The British had gotten wealthy with their ally an African King in west Africa. The King delivered the slaves, got paid royally, and the Brits resold them in N. America and the West Indies.
One good thing led to another bad thing, as the Brits turned to gold mining, overseeing the industry in places like the Gold Coast, I think. The mining industry is dangerous and the Africans did the digging, while the Brit counted the money.
The British wealth was exemplified by huge country mansions, and a class of ultra wealthy people including the royals. They did some good things. The British educational system was adopted in India which has produced hundreds of thousands of highly educated scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and computer nerds.
Britain’s commonwealth has benefited from British financed infrastructure such as railroads. Australia may be the first to go Republic and sever the monarchial ties.
If funds ever are appropriated for this lamebrain idea, the govt is gonna skim a big slice for ‘administration costs’.
Don Lemon wanted me to smell his fingers but I said, “No thanks. I already know what my taint stinks like.”
She was astute to get the race baiting bigoted faggot to look into the mirror of his own ancestors.
The bit about reparations for the British sailors was icing on the cake.
How bout reps for the 110k Union Soldiers who died emancipating the slaves?
How bout that BLM? Oh my bad, only black lives matter. The irony is Blacks are the most racist demographic in the US.
The new movie, “The Woman King” about the Dahomey tribe conveniently leaves out the fact the tribe was one of the largest slave owning, slave selling enterprises in Africa.
There is still slave trading going on in Africa.
No one who is not involved in slavery should pay any reparations but Lemon getting schooled is hilarious.
The frikken ragheads bought the more slaves than the Portuguese and English combined – but, oddly enough, there isn’t a single community of negroes extant in ragheadistan – doesn’t that strike these easily offended negroes as peculiar?
Could it be that the ragheads commitment to castration eliminated the “snub-nosed slaves” propagation?
How is that better than living in a (relatively) free Republic?
A strange world where “the narrative” has more force than the evidences of History – none of which is secret knowledge.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
You want to know how demented and pig ignorant Feminists have become? They actually put millions behind a movie which will certainly lose money that celebrates the people who are responsible for starting the trade in the first place. And in the next breath they demonize the people who stopped it!
And the whole premise is almost certainly based on a myth similar to the myth of the Amazons. Women cannot possibly be superior to men as fighters in this form of warfare as size and strength and reach are all important. The only circumstances where women warriors triumph over men in bladed warfare are on HBO series
I have stated many times in the past that the Africans will use the hate term ‘Racist’ for as long as it works in their favor! It’s way past time to stop it from working! “The truth shall set you free”! Use it!
@ Tim
Meanwhile, back in America, the 388K slaves that were brought to America grew to a population of 3 million by 1860, an 800% increase in population .. at a time when increase in population in Africa was ZERO
So when you talk the reparations, or any issue regarding damages the key question is .. Were the Africans better or worse off for being taken to America?
Just remember that anyone claiming African slave ancestry is saying they are decended from the poorest runners, worst hiders, and lamest warriors in Africa, which is why other Black people were able to catch them and sell them into slavery in the FIRST place…
Have you ever noticed that when Africans excel in something (sports) entry is based on merit but when they don\’t (intellectual occupations) entry is based on skin color (Affirmative Action)?