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'The View' host Sunny Hostin still believes in reparations after slaveholder ancestry revelation
Despite her family coming from slaveholders, "The View" host Sunny Hostin declared "I still believe in reparations!"
On Thursday’s episode of the ABC daytime talk show, Hostin addressed her recent appearance on the PBS documentary show "Finding Your Roots." The show’s host Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed to Hostin that one of her ancestors on her maternal side was likely involved in the slave trade in colonial Spain and "owned at least one human being."
Though she acknowledged the news with the panel, she insisted that she still "deserved" reparations.
"I still believe in reparations, by the way. So, y'all can stop texting me and emailing me and saying that I'm a White girl and I don't deserve reparations!" Hostin said.
She added, "I still believe in reparations. I still believe this country has a lot to do in terms of racial justice."
Despite initially feeling "deeply disappointed" at the revelations, Hostin remarked that she now feels "enriched" knowing her family’s history.
"I'm enriched by knowing that my family has come so far from being enslavers to my mother marrying my father in 1968," Hostin said.
"You're not responsible for what they did," Behar responded.
During the show, Hostin also described her mother’s reaction....
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She wants reparations even though she is rich and her family owned slaves. My great great grandfather fought for the North in the civil war and we never owned slaves. And Housin thinks I should pay her reparations. Now that is really just sad.
Despite her family coming from slaveholders, "The View" host Sunny Hostin declared "I still believe in reparations!"
On Thursday’s episode of the ABC daytime talk show, Hostin addressed her recent appearance on the PBS documentary show "Finding Your Roots." The show’s host Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed to Hostin that one of her ancestors on her maternal side was likely involved in the slave trade in colonial Spain and "owned at least one human being."
Though she acknowledged the news with the panel, she insisted that she still "deserved" reparations.
"I still believe in reparations, by the way. So, y'all can stop texting me and emailing me and saying that I'm a White girl and I don't deserve reparations!" Hostin said.
She added, "I still believe in reparations. I still believe this country has a lot to do in terms of racial justice."
Despite initially feeling "deeply disappointed" at the revelations, Hostin remarked that she now feels "enriched" knowing her family’s history.
"I'm enriched by knowing that my family has come so far from being enslavers to my mother marrying my father in 1968," Hostin said.
"You're not responsible for what they did," Behar responded.
During the show, Hostin also described her mother’s reaction....
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She wants reparations even though she is rich and her family owned slaves. My great great grandfather fought for the North in the civil war and we never owned slaves. And Housin thinks I should pay her reparations. Now that is really just sad.
