>> Right wingers like Laura Ingraham are up in arms about conversations and debates that
are currently taking place in Congress about reparations for descendants of slaves.
And during her radio show, she made these comments.
>> But you get into this discussion when I say who's next about whether there is something
unique about the African American case.
So what about Native Americans, for example, would that be the next reparations?
Fine, obviously, both white and black soldiers frankly took this country from the Indians.
The first people.
>> Well, yeah, people would argue that the whole world and I would, that the whole world
has been reshaped by people taking other people's land.
I mean, it's called conquest.
I mean, it's called, the Ottoman Empire had to shrink back.
We had a totally different map throughout Europe and Asia, I mean, that's just the way
the world is.
They wanna live in a fake world.
Where, I mean, as Trump always says, you don't get do-overs.
No do-overs, that's it.
And there was an argument sometime, I think it was 1980s.
There was a quote, you won, we lost, that's that.
>> So if you're a descendant of a slave and your ancestors were not only enslaved, but
lynched, treated horrifically, and by the way, that in addition to Jim Crow laws, continue
to negatively impact the wealth of black Americans today.
You don't get a do-over, according to Laura Ingraham.
>> Yeah, look, in the context of slavery, saying, we won, you lost, that's sad.
>> It's disgusting.
>> I mean, it's hard to be worse than that.
That's what the conversation was about, it was about reparations, okay?
So now the reality is we do do reparations all the time.
Now, if you were to say we have to strike a balance on how far back we can go, that's
an interesting conversation.
So for example, we shot down, in 1988, a Iranian plane, it had 290 civilians in it.
In 96, you know what we did?
We paid them reparations, cuz we were wrong, and we killed all those civilians.
We often pay for civilian deaths and that is a form of reparations.
In fact, when Native Americans, Harry Truman and some presidents after him, offered money
for the land that was stolen from the Native American tribes.
Cuz Truman, and the other presidents, acknowledge we stole them.
We had deals, we went back on those deals.
Sioux Nation, to this day, has not taken that deal.
So technically, they actually own some of that land in South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota,
etc.
And so reparations is a part of normal part of history as well.
She mentioned the Ottoman Empire.
There was a lot of people that were moved when the Ottoman Empire was split up.
And so some Christians and Muslims went back and forth and sometimes there was compensation.
So it does happen now, on the other hand, if you said, but we can't go back to the Mongols,
and go, hey the the Mongols should compensate the people in Iraq for when Genghis Khan rolled
through town and killed 800,000 people living in Baghdad.
Yes, you can't go back that far.
So is there a reasonable conversation to have?
Yes, was what she did reasonable?
No, basically, who cares?
We won.
>> Fun fact, one thing that a lot of people often forget, it's not really a fun fact is
that we did offer reparations in the aftermath of the Civil War.
We gave them to white slave owners.
We compensated them for $300 per freed slave.
So this country did give reparations just not to the slaves, to the newly-freed slaves,
but the slave owners themselves.
>> And that happens all the time.
And by the way, we said 40 acres and a mule, we went back on that promise.
And what happened when all of you guys lost your houses, and we lost 8 million jobs in
the economic crash?
Did you get any kinda compensation?
No, you know who got compensated, the bankers who caused the crash.
So that kind of injustice, I'm not comparing the two because slavery is way, way worse
obviously.
Right, but in terms of an analogy where the the the people who did the wrong wind up getting
compensated and the people who got screwed get nothing, that's also happened for time
immemorial >> And just real quick going back to what
Laura Ingraham said in that in that clip I mean, she said, essentially, we won, you lost,
ha, ha, right?
And I just want to apply that logic to what you just said, Hassan, about the $300 that
were given to slave owners who essentially lost, right?
They lost that war.
And they got rewarded for it with $300 per slave.
Just wanna put that out there.
>> Yeah, and so, look, imagine if you took that, I don't know why this is not already
as outrageous as this example, but it doesn't break through.
>> We live in Trump's America.
>> To the right wing.
Imagine if you took that and said hey, Jews in the Holocaust, the Germans won and you
lost.
Ha-ha, wow, that is, it's unconscionable, right?
Although these days, maybe it is for the right wing.
Maybe they would say that.
But when you say it in terms of slavery, it's equally abhorrent.
It's unbelievable that she can say that with a straight face
>> So we're running out of time.
But Media Matters put together a video comparing Laura Ingraham to Richard Spencer, a very
proud of White Nationalist.
Take a look.
>> The whole world has been reshaped by people taking other people's land.
I mean, it's called conquest.
>> We conquered this continent.
>> I mean, as Trump always says, you don't get do-overs.
No do-overs, that's it.
There was an argument some time, I think it was the 1980s, there was a quote you won,
we lost, that's that.
>> Whether it's nice to say that or not, we won.
And we got to define what America means, we got to define what this continent means,
>> Describing world politics, we won, you lost, that's that.
That's just what it is.
>> America, at the end of the day, belongs to white men.
>> That is pretty devastating.
And in Charlottesville, they chanted the Jews will not replace us.
Laura Ingraham, on her show, said the immigrants will not replace us, exactly.
And so why is it okay or not okay when you say that about certain people.
But you can say that about immigrants, you can say it about Muslims, you can say it about
African Americans and the Fox News audience is perfectly happy with it and the band marches
on.
So it's gross.