CNN host Don Lemon ended up getting humiliated by a British pundit live on air after he claimed that Royal Family owes slavery “reparations.”
Lemon was interviewing royal commentator Hilary Fordwich about the wealth of the British monarchy.
“England is facing rising costs of living, a living crisis, austerity budget cuts, and so on,” Lemon told Fordwich.
“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.
“Some people want to be paid back and, 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.”
Without missing a beat, Fordwich fired back and schooled Lemon with cold hard historical facts.
“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,” she said as Lemon unwittingly nodded along in agreement.
“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.
“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.
“If reparations needs 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,” she added.
“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,” she said.
WATCH:
CNN’s @DonLemon tells royal commentator Hilary Fordwich the royal family should pay reparations — immediately regrets it pic.twitter.com/LotCfBoAym
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) September 20, 2022
Ok this is amazing. Don Lemon brings up the need for slave reparations from the royal family. His guest says, yes, people should be demanding reparations… from the African leaders who sold them into slavery. pic.twitter.com/il8WFYMrhS
— Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) September 20, 2022
