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In the left’s mythology, there are white people and “people of color.” White people are bad; “people of color” are good. Racism is bad unless you’re mocking, stereotyping, and discriminating against white people, which is simply redress for centuries of white supremacy. White people are always oppressors in every case, and “people of color” are always noble victims. One of the hosts of the cringefest known as “The View,” however, got a rude awakening Tuesday, in the form of a reminder that reality is not really that simple.
Fox News reported Thursday that Sunny Hostin, one of the far-left harridans who host “The View,” was “shocked to discover her family’s hidden history in a new episode of the PBS documentary show ‘Finding Your Roots.’” The bleached white skeleton in her familial closet is the apparent fact that “one of Hostin’s ancestors on her maternal side was likely involved in the slave trade in colonial Spain.”
Historian and Obama pal Henry Louis Gates noted gravely that Hostin’s “third great-grandfather also ‘owned at least one human being.’” All this time Hostin, whose mother is Puerto Rican and father is black, thought she was on the right side of the great divide between the righteous and the unrighteous, that is, the divide between whites and “people of color,” and so she admitted that discovering this was a massive jolt.
“Wow, I’m a little bit in shock,” Hostin said. “I just always thought of myself as half Puerto Rican. I didn’t think my family was originally from Spain and slaveholders.” It was a comfort to Hostin, amid the crisis that ensued after she discovered that there was sin in her familial line, that her husband Manny also has familial roots in Spain.
Hostin, trying gamely to adjust to her new status as a white oppressor, made the best of an impossible situation by focusing on her nuclear family: “I think it’s actually pretty interesting that my husband and I have shared roots, so I do appreciate that, and I think it’s great for our children to know this information. I guess it’s a fact of life that this is how some people made their living, on the backs of others.”
Yeah. It is. Gates, trying to help Hostin adjust, observed wryly that her white ancestry had to have “come from somewhere,” and then asked her light-heartedly “what she had against Spain.” Hostin responded with all the jocularity of someone who had just discovered she had leprosy: “Just the colonization of other people. I’m surprised that they were enslavers, actually. That’s disappointing.” She assured the world that her mother “certainly identifies as Puerto Rican and non-white, actually,” but then added with a hollow laugh: “So I hate this for her.”
The news wasn’t all bad, however. Fox noted that Hostin “received happier news later in the show”: one of her great grandfathers was a slave! Now that’s more like it! That gives Hostin coveted victimhood status and places her again on the side of the good, the brown, the oppressed, rather than the white, the oppressors, the evil. Gates “presented her with her third great-grandfather’s Georgia voter registration card from 1867. The show host said Hostin’s ancestor was likely born into slavery in 1835.”
Hostin was impressed, exclaiming: “Wow, that’s cool,” and beginning to tear up. “That’s amazing,” she said. “In 1867 to register to vote… that’s amazing.”
What’s really amazing is that Sunny Hostin is just one of the multitudes of Americans today who have this shallow and superficial understanding of history, as well as of human nature. Americans are far less Christian than they used to be, and Sunny Hostin is likely unaware of the Christian doctrine of the ancestral or original sin, the idea that no one is perfect or behaves perfectly all the time, but “all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). Not just white people, who are not all evil, any more than “people of color” are all evil.
The toweringly courageous Soviet dissident Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, a devout Orthodox Christian and enduring hero of freedom, expressed it this way: “If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
When Solzhenitsyn said this, it was taken for granted as axiomatic all over the West among Christians and non-Christians alike. But now it is being forgotten or rejected with jaw-dropping rapidity. The underlying assumption of Critical Race Theory is that there are evil people who are insidiously committing evil deeds, and they are the white people. Racism, or whiteness, is the original sin.
This is the core assumption of Sunny Hostin and of so many others like her. No wonder she treated the news of her slaveholding ancestor with such dismay and chagrin. She thought evil had not touched her or her family, but that she came from a long line of noble, brown, oppressed victims.
This is what people of all colors are taught in schools today. It’s not only false, but it’s dangerous, as it leads to acts of violence against the demonized group. If the left continues on its course, and there is no indication that it won’t, such violence will be a regular feature of our unhappy land in the near future.
I wouldnt cry too hard if she were to die of embarrassment
Last year it was revealed that the 1960’s to date, “activist” Angela Davis was a descendant of slave holders. Not too much “news” coverage on that one, either.
How many in the Families of Bill Gates Al Gore or Bill Clinton had shady pasts? How many Democrat Politicians have Slave Owners lets check out the ancestors of Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton as well. The late Ty Cobb came from a long line who opposed Slavery
how many of the Gates, Gore, and Clinton dynasties have shady PRESENTS?
Any answer less than one is a lie. I could go fishing wth much larger numbers but its not worth the time.
Gates is perfect role model for a Villian Gold Finger, for one of numerous Disney type Villains
Thank you for revealing that Christianity is not only about being a “good person” but is primarily about deep self-reflection and being convicted of one’s sin. Yes, we are all lousy sinners.
I heard this – Now we know why Whoopi Goldberg brings her coffee.
Rimshot! 🥁🍻
A nice borrow from when Bill Clinton told Ted Kennedy that the smug, little bitch B. Hussein “would’ve been getting our coffee”.
The world needs to be sick of these black African slave traders who pretend victimhood while unknown to themselves were the reason many of their fellow black African descendents were enslaved in the first place…research the past and get off your high horses. “There is none righteous NO NOT ONE”..God won’t let anyone off the hook!!!
It was Africans selling off fellow blacks at Benin back then (tribal chieftains made more $$$ than the Duke of York).
It’s muslim Africans trading in low-key slavery now.
Good for her.
She deserves this tidbit of information that
will be carried throughout her future and the future
of her children and grandchildren.
She can start an organization called
Daughters of black slave owners.
Maybe get a tax exemption status from the IRS.
My granny was very upset, when she found out two of my great uncles (or where they great great uncles?) were Yankee soldiers. Back on topic, we’ve all seen this Gates menace, in full look at me, look at me mode. Will any of us be surprised, if we find out later, that Gates just made up stuff for TV?
The left couldn’t care less about facts. They live in a make believe universe.
Sunny Hostin’s religious beliefs have been violated.
Peter Boghossian has created a useful chart that is as entertaining as it is informative:
https://boghossian.substack.com/p/woke-religion-a-taxonomy
We Jews were slaves in Africa for four centuries, and still we have a special place on the left’s crap list as white oppressors. How come no props for us?
Only if you’re George Soros, or Chucky Schumer.
(i.e. you’d have to be a bigger sell-out than Liz Cheney.)
Put her on the mailing list to pay reparations…hahaha
Shouldn’t she be cancelled and doxed? Wait… wasn’t Kamala’s family also slaveowners? OOPS, they’re Democrats… never mind.
TED DANSON, in a Roast for Whoopi, his girlfriend, (YIKES!), WORE BLACKFACE, photos on the net, with her laughing. BOTH CANCELLED RIGHT? OOPPPPS.. come on man… they’re Democrats.
REPARATIONS IS PART OF THE DEMOCRATS BRIBES4VOTES PROGRAM! They are losing Blacks so in order to get them to vote (D), they are BRIBING them with this CON THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN but surely, Democrats will blame Republicans anyway!
Student Loan Forgiveness… ANOTHER BRIBE and FJB is forgiving loans little by little which then caused MASSIVE NON-PAYMENTS OF LOANS because borrowers are holding out that FJB will approve more… like before the election, or promise to do so after he wins… ONLY TO GET THE STUDENT VOTE where even Republican students, and their parents, will vote for that!
Gimme a break. There isn’t a soul on Earth that couldn’t find something unseemly somewhere on their genetic line, if they wanted to go back far enough. I wouldn’t be surprised to discover that I had an uncle who lived in the Lascaux Caves who murdered his neighbor over a dispute regarding the ownership of a local woman. Of course, there were the unforgivable atrocities committed during the great Bi-valve Wars of the Cambrian Age. I still get pangs of guilt over that.
Hey Chris, are you CERTAIN those pangs aren’t tummy pangs because you ea so many of those bivalves (they are toothsome critters, are they not?)
The reality is, however, that no one over the age of perhaps five need bother to investigate incidents before his presence here. Not one of us are free of all guilt. We have ALL fallen short…
I also firmly believe that this place would be a whole lot better if folks would cease their “forensic examination” of everyone else and spend more time examining the REAL culprit.. easily spotted staring back from the mirror into which one is gazing.
You crack me up with your sarcastic humor! Thank you for making me laugh during this scary time that we are living in!
So this twit is half Puerto Rican. Where does she think the island’s language originates? What country do most Puerto Rican’s ancestors originate from, at least in part? Has she ever read a history book? Did she think she was 100% black? Almost no one with multiple generations in the Americas are 100% anything.
All civilizations had slaves. But I never owned any slaves and you never were a slave so let’s just drop it.
The View is a Hate group and they plot out and plan to say the most outrageous comment to make headlines, and instead of not paying Attention to them, here we are continuing their ratings numbers that keep them from getting cancelled.
The northern Europeans were mostly serfs (=slaves) until the 1800s.
oh for some white privilege ! ! sen. robert byrd in a little known quote . ” i shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side . rather i should die a thousand times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels ” and our dear crone hillary sang his praises when he died saying how he mentored her when she entered politics . sen. byrd was also a kkk member , who knew !!?? as curly once said , ” im pure as the driven snow ” mos reply ” yeah but you drifted !” the hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds .
Has she been placed on suicide watch, yet? What a blow it must be to find out some distant relative engaged in a commonplace practice 200 years ago. Wonder how she’d feel if he found out some other subset of her heritage engaged in human sacrifice or cannibalism? Will Sunny, or any of her self-righteous cohorts, be able to bear the guilt and shame when they find out their forefathers weren’t woke? These people are laughable.
“Wow, I’m a little bit in shock,” Hostin said. “I just always thought of myself as half Puerto Rican. I didn’t think my family was originally from Spain and slaveholders.”
What an idiot.