The real 'racists' today are the white and black liberals.
(MSN) "NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: '
The View' co-host Sunny Hostin made a shocking discovery about her ancestry as she appeared on the show 'Finding Your Roots' with Henry Louis Gates Jr on PBS.
The 55-year-old lawyer and television star was revealed to be only 7 percent indigenous Puerto Rican, and her ancestors may have been slave owners with a Spanish connect, reported
People."
The 55-year-old was stunned to learn through host
Henry Louis Gates Jr. that her maternal Puerto Rican roots were traced back to reveal Spanish ancestry. A quarter of her background is from the Iberian Peninsula. But the most surprising revelation was that her fourth great-grandfather was a merchant "who was likely involved in the slave trade” in 1800s Spain, and his son, her third great-grandfather, “owned at least one human being," Gates said.
"Finding Your Roots" went further back in Hostin's Spanish ancestry and found a link to Spain's colonial history.
"Wow, I'm a little bit in shock. I mean I've always thought of myself as half Puerto Rican. I didn't think my family was originally from Spain and slaveholders." She continued, "I guess this is a fact of life that some people made their living on the backs of others."