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Amala Ekpunobi

She Called For Reparations. Then She Learned Her Slave Owner Ancestry.

Amala Ekpunobi

Amala Ekpunobi

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4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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‘The View’ co-host Sonny Hostin is a known advocate of reparations payments to modern-day black Americans to correct historical injustices stemming from slavery and Jim Crow. But what happens when PBS reveals to her that her own ancestors were actually slaveholders themselves? Let’s watch and react.

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0:00.0

Slack presents hands-free conversations.

0:03.2

Hello, car commuter, dog walker, stroller pusher.

0:06.5

Your hands are busy.

0:07.9

It's why we created huddles in Slack, because sometimes talking is easier than typing moment where a leftist gets a wake

0:18.6

up call and today we are going to go through that experience and it's with none other than Sunny Hosten.

0:24.7

You know her as a co-host on the view.

0:26.9

Also an extremely aggressive leftist who has a long history of espousing her very radical beliefs.

0:33.0

Recently on the show, we talked about the fact that she thinks that the majority of Americans are in fact racist and that white supremacy is the biggest threat in this nation.

0:42.0

Well, she decided to go on a PBS show called

0:44.3

Find Your Roots where she found out a few things about her ancestry. One that she

0:49.8

does have some ancestry that were in fact slaves so she's got that I guess going for

0:55.3

her if we're going to use woke leftist logic but also that Sunny Hosten is the

0:59.8

descendant of slave owners we're gonna get into that first let's watch clip number one of

1:05.0

the send

1:12.0

we're gonna get into that.

1:03.0

First let's watch clip number one

1:05.0

of Sunny finding out that she has a grandfather way down the line

1:09.0

who is likely to have been born into slavery.

1:12.0

Moving back one generation from Amanda,

1:15.0

we came to her father, a man named Dean Harris.

1:20.0

Dean is Sunny's third great-grandfather.

1:24.0

He was likely born into slavery in Columbia,

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