Ingraham dismisses reparations: ‘We won, you lost’

Fox News’s Laura Ingraham dismissed the idea of reparations for the descendants of slaves on her podcast Thursday as “do-overs,” according to the Daily Beast.

Ingraham played a clip Thursday of author Ta-Nehisi Coates blasting Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for suggesting the election of Barack Obama made reparations unnecessary.

{mosads}Ingraham’s guest, Kentucky State professor Wilford Reilly, said reparations would open the door to Native Americans calling for the same.

“I mean, obviously both white and black soldiers, frankly, took this country from the Indians — the first people,” Reilly said.

“People would argue that the whole world, and I would, the whole world has been reshaped by people taking other people’s land,” Ingraham responded. “It’s called conquest.”

“There was an argument, sometime — I think it was the 1980s. There was a quote, you won, we lost, that’s that. Describing world politics, we won, you lost, that’s that. That’s just the way it is,” she added.

McConnell’s remarks drew the ire of both Coates and presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), who has introduced a bill to commission a study on the effect of reparations.

“I think that one of the big strikes of ignorance that he says there is that somehow this is about a compensation, in other words, writing a check to somebody and reducing the urgency of this conversation to simply that,” Booker told SiriusXM host Joe Madison on Wednesday.