Fox News guest tells African-Americans they ‘need to move on’ from slavery
On Thursday’s Tucker Carlson Tonight on Fox News, a conversation about reparations and whether or not it will become a mainstream position among democrats was put into the hands of Canadian author and columnist, Mark Steyn. “When Kamala Harris says people are not starting from the same point - slavery was abolished a century and a half ago. Nobody alive today has a grandparent who was a slave,” Steyn said. “And in that sense I think you reach a point where, you know, you need to move on.” Viewers on Twitter were quick to refute some of Steyn’s facts.
My dad is 74. His grandmother was a slave. So yes people alive today are direct descendants. The misinformation continues.
— MissCandyKiss (@MissCandyKiss) February 22, 2019
My 90-year-old dad, who's alive and well, had a grandfather born in 1855. He's obviously wrong and nasty on so many levels.
— Richard Kallenbach (@RichardKbach) February 22, 2019
Steyn went on to say that it would be “disturbing” if reparations possibly becomes a mainstream platform.“The reparations thing, eventually as the decades goes by becomes ridiculous,” Steyn said. “I'm Canadian I think you guys should give us reparations because if you hadn't had the revolution, we'd have the whole continent would now be Canada.”Host Carlson summed up the reparations conversation with just a few words.“It's all so bad though. It's really divisive.”Tucker Carlson Tonight airs weeknights at 8 p.m. on Fox News.See what Fox News host Laura Ingraham had to say about critics of John Wayne's 1971 interview in Playboy:
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