Don Lemon Meets His Match In Debate On Reparations

Posted on Sept 20, 2022 by Constitutional Nobody Author: Carmine Sabia 

With the death of the late Queen Elizabeth II and the pomp and pageantry around her funeral, the Royal Family has been the main focus of the news.

Another main topic for many of the mainstream news organizations has been “colonialism” and the slave trade.

And Fake News CNN host Don Lemon found himself face to face with possibly one of the best arguments against reparations on national television.

“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,” the host said to global business consultant Hilary Fordwich on Monday. “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.”

Fordwich argued that if reparations are to be paid then they should be paid by those who are the ancestors of the source of the slave trade.

“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.

“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 in the world to abolish it, it was started by William Wilberforce, was the British. In Great Britain, they abolished slavery,” she said.

“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,” the global business consultant said.

“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. That’s where they should start,” Fordwich said, adding in another element to the Lemon ‘reparations’ claim.

“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.

The host appeared to be struck by the argument and paused for a while before answering her.

“It’s an interesting discussion, Hilary, thank you very much,” he said.

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