This is a little funny and a well-deserved embarrassment for CNN host Don Lemon. {Direct Rumble Link}
The intellectually deficient little nitwit from the fake news has no concept of true historic reference when he began advancing a narrative about the British monarchy paying reparations due to slavery. However, the royal scholar being interviewed, Hilary Fordwich, has a solid understanding of history and used the opportunity to remind Don Lemon exactly which country was the first to end the practice of slavery and how many British patriots died battling against African tribal lords and kings who did not want to end it.
Don Lemon was left a befuddled mess… LOL WATCH:
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That was delicious Lemonade.
The great 19th century explorer David Livingstone has been much slandered because he exposed the extent to which the slave trade was a black man’s undertaking, and because he was a serious Christian missionary.
Christian zealotry has been largely re-framed as imperialism. The so-called imperialists died by the thousands trying to bring their message to the world.
The utter inability of modern westerners to grasp the passion of these Christians does not negate it. It only frames the smallness of the modern leftist mind.
and by its noble accomplishments, despite its atrocities, the british empire shames the american one which has atrocities but very, very few accomplishments beyond south korea. they had a freed eastern europe but they couldn’t leave well enough alone so we see the sordid, tragic denouement in ukraine now.
That history has been erased. And here in this country, they are erasing our history in front of our eyes.
And not one of them would Hazzard a finger nail for what they espouse to believe, much less their lives. Martha’s vineyard comes to mind.
THE WHITE LION
“The White Lion slave ship is affirmed on this date in 1604. This was an English privateer operating under a Dutch letter of marque during the middle passage.
The ship brought the first Africans to the English colony of Virginia in 1619, a year before the arrival of the Mayflower in New England. Though the African captives were sold as indentured servants, the event is regarded as the start of slavery of Africans in colonial North America. In 1526 personnel in the expedition of Spanish explorer, Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón landed on the South Carolina coast, including enslaved Africans. They escaped and are thought to have joined Native Americans if they survived.
The first enslaved African in North America was Estevanico, a Moor who participated in the Spanish Narváez expedition in 1527. Enslaved Africans were also part of the Spanish expedition to Florida in 1539 with Hernando de Soto and the 1565 founding of St. Augustine, Florida. The Africans on the White Lion were probably among the thousands who had been captured in 1618-1619 by a slave-raiding force primarily consisting of African raiders, under nominal Portuguese leadership, who were at war with the Kingdom of Ndongo. These enslaved Africans were taken on the Portuguese slave ship São João Bautista from Luanda, Angola, the capital of the Portuguese settlements in Angola.”
https://aaregistry.org/story/the-white-lion-slave-ship-a-story/
So, the Europeans had slaves just like many North and South American tribes, and every other civilization throughout human history.
Interesting.
Crazy, right?
…and by “Moor” we mean muslim (so Obummer was actually correct?) they were here at the beginning of the country? !
I once emailed Harold Holzer, the prominent Civil War/A Lincoln historian as to why Shanghaid Irish immigrants’ descendants (i.e. involuntarily abducted and forced into service in the Union Army during the Civil War) were not entitled to “reparations.” I don’t think Mr. Holzer took my question very seriously. As I recall, he questioned the frequency of the Shanghai method of Union Army/Navy recruitment and felt that the practice was rare, exaggerated and mythologized. At least he took the time to reply to my question.
Then he’s just a lying POS.
The Irish were also were put on plantations in SC as indentured servants. That is where the term “rednecks’ originated. Oh, and some of the land owners that bought them were black
I just learned three new things.
So were the Scottish including my ancestors. Both Irish and Scottish.
My Scots-Irish ancestors said “p!ss off” and headed to the Appalachian Mountains to fight with and eventually marry into the Native tribes.
They were also hired to do dangerous things that a slave-owner wouldn’t want to risk losing his ‘property’ on.
English, Welsh and Scots too, the Irish didnt have all the “fun”
After learning the above, will Don LeMoan and fellow travelers start advocating for reparations to descendants of ALL slaves?
I recently had the “opportunity” to talk with someone who strongly believes in “reparations” for black slavery (he also supports BLM, ANTIFA, etc). Like you all, I pointed out that many races/cultures have been forced into enslavement throughout the history of mankind, not just the Africans. Then I asked why I should not be entitled to “reparations” due to my Native American ancestors for being forced off their lands, and rounded up to be put on reservations. Land that belonged to them! The other side of the family were Scotch/Irish! I don’t know of many former slaves that were forced off land that they owned for generations. None of this is to say that slavery wasn’t a terrible practice. But none of us alive today owe anything to those whom our ancestors treated wrongly! End of that discussion.
Sorry if I may have said anything against CTH posting guidelines, but I can’t figure out how to delete my response!
When dogs and cats gain citizen status, I’m gonna be in a heap of trouble.
Make sure you request feeding schedules!!!!
After I rescued and enslaved my kitty, she runs every time I open the door for fear of involuntary, forced freedom. It high time I receive reparations for all that food I forced her to eat. Must be something wrong with us to be so co-dependent🙀😻
I’m even worse–I force whipping cream down my cat’s throat! He acts like he likes it, but I know he’s just pretending.
My indoor cats want to go outside, all the time.
But I don’t let them, because I know outdoor cats don’t live as long.
They will sneak out, if I leave the backyard sliding door open a crack.
I love my cats, so they are indoor cats.
My wife is a RVT, so we have some strict cat and dog rules,
all in order to prolong their lives.
They may want reparations, later on.
My mother acquiesced with a cat door to the screened porch. What are the reparations for the cost of that little expensive item?
My very first cat, Bruce, and Orange tabby, was my best ever cat.
I was young, and cut a hole in my window screen so he could jump in and out whenever he wanted.
He brought me lots of birds.
And fathered a litter of kittens behind my waterbed frame.
I didn’t understand that other cats would follow him inside.
He used to climb up on my roof, the second story, from an adjacent tree.
I had to climb up there a couple times, when he wouldn’t come down.
I worked walking distance from my house. The workplace shared a fenceline, with my home.
it was that close.
He would follow me to work, at first just walking in the sidewalk, and I would stop and take him home.
Eventually, he just walked the fenceline, and would jump down.
And he would be right there, where I was working.
Everybody I worked with knew who Bruce was, whose cat he was, and why he was there.
He made it to 18, and he was able to spend his last moments in my arms.
Twice now, I have been able to say goodbye to my beloved pet family members
In my arms, at home.
No reparations.
Sorry to tangent OT.
My dogs are Daisy, 16, Border Collie
BoBo, 3, BC
Cats:
Joey, 18, Maine Coon
Minnie, 5, Tabby
Boogie, 3 Maine Coon
Pookie, 3 Tortie
None have asked for reparations, yet.
For me it should be a lot since a racoon snuck in through mine! Holy heck, that was scary!
ALL living things seek freedom.
I have never raised a species of animal that did not escape the boundaries established by fences. It was NOT that the grass was greener on the other side…….as much as it was the FREEDOM that beckoned.
Exquisite takedown.
This was great, Tucker showed it tonight. She schooled his ignorant a$$. he was speechless.
She won’t be back on CNN or any other fake news again.
Nor will Don….well, not during his prime time slot anyways…
Lemon flung the door wide open for her! The little smile she had was priceless, as she knew she was going to make an utter fool of him – in the most sophisticated way.
Similar story: at a Pennsylvania rally for Doug Mastriano, there was a call for everyone to pray.
The Communists turn arms upraised for prayer into Nazi salutes!
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/msnbc-guest-roasted-after-calling-evangelical-prayer-hands-nazi-salute
Never watched 10 seconds of this Lemon dude. Seems dumb as a rock . Not meaning to disparage rocks.
I actually laughed out loud! Thanks!
So proves he has that job for no good reason – without a weighted deck he has nothing – couldn’t even respond – you NEVER hear this truth as to Black Slavery -there would have been NONE without the African Kings selling them and they enslaved them for hundreds of years b4 any YT was in the picture….
Hundreds?
I dare say it was millennia if not eons.
sent war captives to the tuaregs for salt.
Black slavery still going on, see the Sudan and Nigeria by the Muslims. And if the African kings were selling their people or some other tribe, isn’t that black supremacy?
John Gibbs to Don Lemon, I think Sundance has a sharp sense of humor.
Ms Fordwich’s gotcha grin at the 17 second mark of the clip is an absolute classic.
Well played Hilary.
Delicious…
Priceless.
This should be played in every school!!
I went to the Jamestown Museum in VA a few years back and they have this wall dedicated to explaining “The Golden Triangle” of slavery from Britain to West Aftica to the Caribe, if I recall correctly. I had never had it so well explained that Africa was profitting off os slavery as much as anybody, and they were betraying their own people. No wonder most slaves had no desire to return to Africa.
This all backfired on Don Lemon. Don Lemon is now toast.
If he were to sit on his LEFT hand, he would know his RIGHT hand is third base.
The British kicked my ancestors out of Canada and “relocated” them to Louisiana swamps. We turned out fine.
That guy really is a total idiot.
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The moment a hunter sees it’s prey stepping out of dense foliage, and into an open field.
LOL, good one!
Don Lemon – oh dear God, what a frigging doofus. The look on his face after the lady spoke was almost painful… but priceless.
We’ll call it… “The Lemon”…
The smart glasses….all of the tv talking heads try them out now. They were told it makes them appear smarter. They of course believe they actually do make them smarter.
He received his “reparation” by achieving overpaid idiot status on an un American boob tube.
Little lemons should have long been removed from the sight of anyone and he should go back to school and learn.
hard to believe she wasn’t tipped off. don lemon tests to see if a stove burner is on with his tongue.
OMG I had to clean my keyboard! You win the interwebs today!
and more:
Where. Are. My. Reparations????
This made my day!
Smackdown of Lemon done with knowledge..grace and lots of class.
The French author wrote a book about this in the 1800s titled “Dick Sand, A Captain at 15”. Dick and his people were enslaved by a she-Queen African
French author being Jules Verne
Silly ‘ol me.
Always thought that the descendants of African slaves in the US should give thanks in a small but tasteful ceremony each month that they are living in the US with the massive advantages that brings.
Anyone wanting “reparations” should return to their ancestor’s Nigerian village…..:-)….I didn’t think so.
I agree.
Im happy that my fortune landed me in America.
I could have been raised in Eastern Europe.
Just luck that I was born on American soil.
I bet everyone is happy to have been born in the US.
Or made their way here.
Who in the heck is complaining that they have US citizenship?
Zero people.
Thats why I don’t blame illegal immigrants for trying to get here.
Wouldnt you?
A lot of spoiled, entitled people are. Some are from the usual grievance groups, some are young and naive, and some just don’t have sense to be glad.
I have a friend of mine who is Black and thankful his ancestors were brought to America.
Bravo, madam!
People like this snake are as bad, nee, worse, than the Africans who sold their own into bondage.
Leftists outrage over slavery from way back when never takes that major fact into account. It’s like blaming the junkie more than the dealer/smuggler. We never hear about this or the Arab traders.
The ultimate inconvenient truth and one that needs to be brought up more often.
Years ago, I was regularly flying into Dakar, Senegal. On one trip, me and my crew decided to go to Goree Island and tour the slave pens which are there. Goree Island was the main demarkation point for slaves out of West Africa and as I was told by the guide a place wherein tens of thousands of slaves left for the New World. At the beginning of the tour, the guide, a Senegalese, gentleman inquired of the assembled group of tourists where we were from. Our group of 6-8 airline crew informed him that we were from the U.S. which caused him to immediately tell us that he was glad that there weren’t any blacks in our group. This caused me to immediately ask, Why? His answer was as follows: American blacks do not want to hear the true story of slavery in Africa but instead want to hear a story about Kunta Kinte and white guys sneaking around kidnapping black children. They do not want to know that the enslavers of black men, women, and children were other blacks, selling them for money or an iron pot or an axe. He went on to outline the entire supply chain, those who profited most and those who suffered the most. At the end of the tour, I gave our guide a generous tip for his excellent informative tour and we engaged in another conversation during which he shocked me to my core when he told me the following: “I would give anything IF my ancestors had been taken to America as slaves.” I asked, “why would you say that?” His answer, “Because I would be an American!” He recognized that as horrible as slavery was (still is in much of Africa) that those who were taken, had, in some way, paid it forward for those now living in the United States. Too bad that guys like Lemon don’t realize that IF he had been born in Africa, his life would be vastly different than that which he is living as an American citizen. Sadly, he doesn’t know that instead of whining about and using something that happened hundreds of years ago to destroy the nation that nurtured him and millions of others he should work to build and preserve it for future generations.
Leftists have been trying desperately to delete this from history.
There’s something disingenuous going on here.
Triangular trade?
The British profited greatly from slavery in their colonies that in large part enabled them to become the principal colonial power.
lol.. the look on his face as she busted the narrative… lol.. I rate that right up there with Martha’s tears over Hillary’s defeat
Do you think he went home and screamed at the sky?
Donnie Lee Moan comeuppance.
Don is a blithering idiot. He got what he deserved. If we are going to talk about America owing “reparations” for example…….let’s start with LBJ and the “Great Society” America has been paying and paying and paying to right the wrong of slavery…and not getting sufficient return for our money. Everywhere we turn we are confronted by violent thugs, disgruntled malcontents……..I guarantee you we could write every black person in America a check for a million dollars and it would not change ANYTHING for most of them ………….over it. Tired of pumping sunshine up people’s yippers and they still can’t show me they can do anything with the trillions of dollars spent on social justice….for them. Got no more time for the shuck and jive. Don…….what are you doing to lift your people son? She was 100% spot on………..Telling me that it’s MY fault. or the King’s fault………….which king Don………….run along bonehead.
“your people”
To be clear: Don Lemon makes a lot of money, lives in exclusive neighborhoods, and attends exclusive (*ahem*) Cocktail Parties.
Finger vibrating across his lips.
Dufuss lemonhead is the definition of befuddled mess. What… a maroon.
We took the kids on a Central American cruise some years ago, including a tour of the Aztec pyramids in Mexico. Great inoculation against future “Europeans vs Natives” narratives, as the kids saw the human sacrifice location themselves.
Whitee demands reparations !!!
-Thomas Sowell-
A battle of wits with an unarmed man.
He is clueless about history. All they have are talking points that are rooted in false claims.
Don Lemon simply shut the hell up
Slavery is ancient and it is practiced now.
That woman is a national treasure…..
When is the new CEO of CNN going to can Lemon the Lemon or is he keeping him around for laughs?
Once Lemon,always a Lemon
Question for dawn lim awn…what does the street Cindy Lauper danced down in the “girls just wanna have fun” look like now? Would a teen girl be able to flaunt her ass down that street now without getting raped? Or worse?