'The View' co-host whines Smithsonian hearings are about Trump admin not wanting to pay reparations

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin claimed Wednesday that nan Congressional hearings connected nan Smithsonian institution were astir nan Trump management not wanting to grant reparations to nan descendants of slaves.

Smithsonian National Museum of American History Director Dr. Anthea Hartig faced questions connected Capitol Hill connected Tuesday aft a White House study published earlier this period recovered that nan Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History has go a taxpayer-backed institution of "ideological capture" and "extreme governmental activism."

"The existent logic down this is astir financial repair to nan descendents of nan enslaved Africans," Hostin said, arsenic co-host Whoopi Goldberg pushed her to explain what she meant. 

"Reparations," Hostin said. "I deliberation this reflects a wide effort by nan Trump Administration to reshape nan measurement nan nation’s history is told, truthful this state does not person to salary Black group for nan forced labour and nan unpaid labour that built this country. I really deliberation that this is what this is about."

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"Even aft 250 years, there’s truthful overmuch repair that needs to beryllium done erstwhile it comes to aggrieved groups successful this country, but particularly African Americans," Hostin said. 

"Let’s look it, erstwhile you person truth and reconciliation commissions, and you've person them erstwhile it comes to interned Japanese Americans, you've had them erstwhile it comes to nan Holocaust, you’ve had them erstwhile it comes to Native Americans, it has not happened — truth and reconciliation commissions, erstwhile it comes to slavery. And that is because they’re trying to hide nan truth part. You cannot person existent reconciliation, and past you cannot person existent financial repair unless you person nan truth. And they’re trying to erase that truth," she said.

Hostin noted that nan United Nations General Assembly voted to declare nan transatlantic enslaved waste and acquisition to beryllium "the gravest crime against humanity," successful March 2026. The U.S., Argentina and Israel voted against nan resolution, and 123 countries voted successful favor. Fifty-two countries abstained from nan vote.

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The View co-host said nan Trump management was looking to debar paying African Americans "our due." (ABC/TheView)

The co-host of "The View" quoted Ambassador Dan Negrea, U.S. typical to nan UN Economic and Social Council, arsenic saying nan U.S. "does not admit a ineligible correct to reparations for humanities wrongs that were not forbidden nether world rule astatine nan clip they occurred," anterior to nan vote.

"And truthful what this is astir is money," Hostin said. "This is not astir thing else. It’s astir this state trying to debar paying African Americans our due."

Hostin appeared connected nan PBS documentary show "Finding Your Roots" successful 2024, and was stunned astatine nan clip to find retired her ancestor was a slaveholder. Henry Louis Gates Jr., nan big of nan show, revealed 1 of Hostin's ancestors connected her maternal broadside was apt progressive successful nan enslaved waste and acquisition successful assemblage Spain. 

Her 3rd great-grandfather besides "owned astatine slightest 1 quality being," he said.

Hostin, whose mother is Puerto Rican and begetter is Black, confessed nan revelation near her "in shock."

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"Wow, I’m a small spot successful shock. I conscionable ever thought of myself arsenic half Puerto Rican. I didn’t deliberation my family was primitively from Spain and slaveholders," she said.

Hostin shared that her hubby Manny's family is besides from Spain, truthful they person that successful common.

"I deliberation it’s really beautiful absorbing that my hubby and I person shared roots, truthful I do admit that, and I deliberation it’s awesome for our children to cognize this information. I conjecture it’s a truth of life that this is really immoderate group made their living, connected nan backs of others," she continued.

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Hostin besides precocious faced backlash complete her saying she felt unsafe successful neighborhoods pinch American flags.