Don Lemon was recently demoted from primetime to early mornings on CNN, mostly because he’s dumb and nobody watches. Nothing has changed in the move: Lemon Squeezey is still dumb and he still has no audience, which is kind of a shame because nobody saw this live: While trying to argue that the British Royal Family owes black people slave reparations, he got absolutely schooled on the history of slavery and was rendered speechless.
Because of his limited journalism skills Don Lemon pretty much only knows race and gay issues, so he tried applying the former to his coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. While interviewing CNN royal commentator and global business consultant Hilary Fordwich, Lemon tried to make a case for the British Royal Family paying slave reparations:
CNN’s @DonLemon tells royal commentator Hilary Fordwich the royal family should pay reparations — immediately regrets it pic.twitter.com/LotCfBoAym
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“Well, this is coming when, you know, there’s all of this wealth and you hear about it comes as England is facing rising cost of living, living crisis, austerity, budget cuts and so on. 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 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,” said Lemon.
Literally no one besides Don Lemon is talking about slave reparations from the Royal Family but that doesn’t matter because Fordwich’s answer was a devastatingly brutal:
“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. Where was the beginning of the supply chain? That was in Africa. And when that crossed the entire world when the 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. 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,” said Fordwich.
This answer is already pretty awesome but it was about to get better:
“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 and having them handcuffed in cages? Absolutely. 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,” Fordwich said.
Don Lemon was stunned. This was not the answer he was hoping for. Generally speaking, anyone on CNN is there because they believe all the network’s leftist bullshit.
After staring blankly for a while, Lemon finally managed to say, “It’s an interesting discussion.”
Interesting indeed. He of course couldn’t dispute one word that Fordwich said because it was 100% true.
As Lemon went to commercial he must have been thinking, “Damn, I just made a case for Africa paying slave reparations.” Then again, Lemon is pretty dumb so he probably thought the interview went well.
