Another prominent black leftist has been outed as the descendant of the slave traders.
This time, it’s left-wing rabble-rouser Sunny Hostin of the liberal talkfest “The View,” who has long been an advocate of reparations for slavery and defender of Black Lives Matter.
Hostin, whose mother is Puerto Rican and father is black, clung to her Puerto Rican heritage.
Yet Hostin was outed as the descendant of Spanish slave traders during an episode of “Finding Your Roots,” a PBS show hosted by Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., who is also black.
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“Hostin’s third great-grandfather was the son of a Spanish merchant and owned at least one human being. She also discovered that she was only seven percent indigenous Puerto Rican,” the Daily Mail noted.
“Wow, I’m a little bit in shock. I just always thought of myself as half Puerto Rican. I didn’t think my family was originally from Spain and slaveholders,” she said on Gates’ show.
“I guess it’s a fact of life that this is how some people made their living, on the backs of others,”’ she added. “I had no idea the Spanish roots to this extent. I’m still sort of shocked at the depth of the ties.”
“I’m surprised that they were enslavers, actually. That’s disappointing.”
Appearing on “The View” on Thursday, Hostin stood by her previous call for reparations despite her past.
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“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 that I don’t deserve reparations,” she said. “I still believe this country has a lot to do in terms of racial justice. But what I will say … is that I feel that I’m enriched by knowing that history.”
Hostin joins black actor LeVar Burton, another liberal, in discovering some uncomfortable truth about the family tree.
Last month, as reported by Fox News, Gates revealed to Burton that his great-grandmother descended from a white man from North Carolina who served in the Confederate army.
“Are you kidding me? Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I did not see this coming,” Burton said on the program.
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“There’s some conflict roiling inside of me right now, but also oddly enough, I feel a pathway opening up.”
Ironically, Burton’s biggest role was as a slave in the 1977 TV miniseries “Roots,” based on the book by black author Alex Haley.
Fox News noted that Gates has uncovered other surprises for his black guests.
Last year, for instance, he informed Angela Davis, a prominent radical with the Black Panthers in the 1960s and ‘70s, that her ancestors came to America on the Mayflower.
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