Sunny Hostin's Mother Cried to Learn About Family's Slave-Owning Past: 'She Was Deeply Disappointed'

[Lexy]

[quote Sunny Hostin had to have a tough conversation with her mother after taking part in Finding Your Roots.

During Thursday's episode of The View, the 55-year-old co-host detailed how her mom Rosa Beza reacted Finding Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. telling Hostin that her maternal ancestors had "likely" owned slaves.

That her third great-grandfather was "the son of a merchant who was likely involved in the slave trade" and had owned at least one person was just one of many "surprising revelations about my family history," Hostin said on The View. While telling the panelelist that her forebears from Galicia, Spain, had moved to Puerto Rico as "enslavers," Hostin also revealed that she'd learned on the PBS genealogy series that she is only 7 percent indigenous Puerto Rican. ][/quote]

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[Slimshandy]

What is there to cry about?

Just the whole issue of slavery in general, or does she now feel like she’s got some of that evil blood in her?

[WellPreserved]

I see both the advantage and disadvantage of looking into one’s genealogy and this is an example of a disadvantage. I can s the how this would be upsetting and disappointing to Hostin and her mother.

[SoFloMom]

I’ve looked into my genealogy and it appears that my ancestors include both slave owners and slaves. It wasn’t completely surprising and shocking, since I know my racial background is mixed. However it was still upsetting. Slavery in general is upsetting. It makes me sad to know that my ancestors experienced the horrors of slavery AND that my ancestors thought it was justifiable to cause those horrors.

[Pjmm]

What is there to cry about?

Just the whole issue of slavery in general, or does she now feel like she’s got some of that evil blood in her?

Idk if I'd think of blood as "evil." I'm sure it's upsetting to discover your ancestors were involved in the slave trade. As far as I know, mine came to America too late to be involved. Still doesn't mean they didn't do something bad Idk about. I'd say she's not her ancestors. She has to understand she's her own person who can take this knowledge and make far better decisions.

[Slimshandy]

What is there to cry about?

Just the whole issue of slavery in general, or does she now feel like she’s got some of that evil blood in her?

Idk if I'd think of blood as "evil." I'm sure it's upsetting to discover your ancestors were involved in the slave trade. As far as I know, mine came to America too late to be involved. Still doesn't mean they didn't do something bad Idk about. I'd say she's not her ancestors. She has to understand she's her own person who can take this knowledge and make far better decisions.

It would be extremely difficult to find any human being in the world who didn’t have an ancestor involved in some aspect of slave trading if you look back far enough…if you’re trying to look 400 years ago, you’ve got over a million people ancestors to judge…

[WellPreserved]

What is there to cry about?

Just the whole issue of slavery in general, or does she now feel like she’s got some of that evil blood in her?

Idk if I'd think of blood as "evil." I'm sure it's upsetting to discover your ancestors were involved in the slave trade. As far as I know, mine came to America too late to be involved. Still doesn't mean they didn't do something bad Idk about. I'd say she's not her ancestors. She has to understand she's her own person who can take this knowledge and make far better decisions.

It would be extremely difficult to find any human being in the world who didn’t have an ancestor involved in some aspect of slave trading if you look back far enough…if you’re trying to look 400 years ago, you’ve got over a million people ancestors to judge…

Reading the article it seems she was upset to find out that rather than being indigenous Puerto Rican, she was descended from a Spaniard who may have been tangentially involved in the slave trade. It's kind of a double whammy. I would think that anyone who believes that they are one ethnicity (especially indigenous) only to find out that they are not would have some feels about it. Her feelings are her own and she is allowed to express them.

[Slimshandy]

Idk if I'd think of blood as "evil." I'm sure it's upsetting to discover your ancestors were involved in the slave trade. As far as I know, mine came to America too late to be involved. Still doesn't mean they didn't do something bad Idk about. I'd say she's not her ancestors. She has to understand she's her own person who can take this knowledge and make far better decisions.

It would be extremely difficult to find any human being in the world who didn’t have an ancestor involved in some aspect of slave trading if you look back far enough…if you’re trying to look 400 years ago, you’ve got over a million people ancestors to judge…

Reading the article it seems she was upset to find out that rather than being indigenous Puerto Rican, she was descended from a Spaniard who may have been tangentially involved in the slave trade. It's kind of a double whammy. I would think that anyone who believes that they are one ethnicity (especially indigenous) only to find out that they are not would have some feels about it. Her feelings are her own and she is allowed to express them.

lol boo hoo. She’s one of the rest of us now.

[WellPreserved]

It would be extremely difficult to find any human being in the world who didn’t have an ancestor involved in some aspect of slave trading if you look back far enough…if you’re trying to look 400 years ago, you’ve got over a million people ancestors to judge…

Reading the article it seems she was upset to find out that rather than being indigenous Puerto Rican, she was descended from a Spaniard who may have been tangentially involved in the slave trade. It's kind of a double whammy. I would think that anyone who believes that they are one ethnicity (especially indigenous) only to find out that they are not would have some feels about it. Her feelings are her own and she is allowed to express them.

lol boo hoo. She’s one of the rest of us now.

Speak for yourself.

[SouthernIslander]

It would be extremely difficult to find any human being in the world who didn’t have an ancestor involved in some aspect of slave trading if you look back far enough…if you’re trying to look 400 years ago, you’ve got over a million people ancestors to judge…

Reading the article it seems she was upset to find out that rather than being indigenous Puerto Rican, she was descended from a Spaniard who may have been tangentially involved in the slave trade. It's kind of a double whammy. I would think that anyone who believes that they are one ethnicity (especially indigenous) only to find out that they are not would have some feels about it. Her feelings are her own and she is allowed to express them.

lol boo hoo. She’s one of the rest of us now.

Huh? Who is us?