{"id":1648952,"date":"2022-09-20T11:07:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1648952"},"modified":"2022-09-20T11:07:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T15:07:42","slug":"beastmode-brit-smacks-down-don-lemon-on-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beastmode-brit-smacks-down-don-lemon-on-reparations\/","title":{"rendered":"BEASTMODE: Brit Smacks Down Don Lemon on Reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbeastmode-brit-smacks-down-don-lemon-on-reparations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1648952&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Following Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s funeral on Monday, CNN host Don Lemon suggested the United Kingdom should pay reparations for colonialism\u2014a claim quickly rebutted by royal commentator Hilary Fordwich.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where was the beginning of the [slave] supply chain? That was in Africa,&#8221; said Fordwich. &#8220;Which was the first nation in the world that abolished slavery? \u2026 The British.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two thousand naval men died on the high seas trying to stop slavery,&#8221; the commentator added. &#8220;If reparations need to be paid, we need to go right back to the beginning of that supply chain and say, \u2018Who was rounding up their own people and having them handcuffed in cages?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The exchange comes just days after CNN announced Lemon will relinquish his solo primetime show, <em>Don Lemon Tonight<\/em>, to help helm the network&#8217;s struggling morning news show. Many media observers called the move a demotion\u2014eliciting a stern response from the marquee CNN anchor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was not demoted,&#8221; Lemon said on his show Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s funeral on Monday, CNN host Don Lemon suggested the United Kingdom should pay reparations for colonialism\u2014a claim quickly rebutted by royal commentator Hilary Fordwich. &#8220;Where was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}