The royal commentator, Hilary Fordwich, was on with CNN’s demoted Don Lemon who said that the Brits should pay reparations. Whoops!
In Orwell’s 1984, a slogan of the state is, “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
The left took that as a lesson, and they seek to control the narrative of the past and use it to dictate the politics of this moment, with schemes such as The 1619 Project.
America as a fundamentally rotten, evil, awful place — which is why less than half of Democrats are proud to be American.
The U.K. was the first nation in the world to abolish slavery while the African kings were rounding up their own people. Go look up the name William Wilberforce.
Even after our Civil War, where Republicans forced Democrats to give up their slaves, Native Americans still held Africans in bondage.
Reparations for a nation that had slaves for 80-or-so-years, the U.S., not only doesn’t make sense it fails to consider that the entire rationale for affirmative action.