Hostin addressed her recent appearance on the PBS documentary show “Finding Your Roots.” The show’s host Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed to Hostin that one of her ancestors on her maternal side was likely involved in the slave trade in colonial Spain and “owned at least one human being.”
Though she acknowledged the news with the panel, she insisted that she still “deserved” reparations.
“So what, if one of my ancestors was involved in the slave trade,” she began. “I feel I deserve reparations, due to the guilt and shame I now have to endure.”