ben affleck Wanted Details Of slave owning ancestors Removed From
Ben Affleck Wanted Details Of Slave Owning Ancestors Removed From Affleck posted to his facebook page an explanation for what happened. he said that when the discovery was made, he was “embarrassed” to learn his family included a slave owner. but after the. — ben affleck admitted earlier this week that he was embarrassed to learn that one of his ancestors owned slaves. now, he's revealing the name of that person. "lots of people have been.
ben affleck Breaks Silence On Trying To Hide slave owning ancestors
Ben Affleck Breaks Silence On Trying To Hide Slave Owning Ancestors Back in 2015, affleck found himself in hot water when hacked sony emails revealed that he’d requested a slave owning ancestor be scrubbed from his episode of pbs’ finding your roots. “here. An "embarrassed" ben affleck admitted tuesday that he asked producers of the pbs documentary show "finding your roots" to edit out the discovery that one of his distant ancestors owned slaves. the. “the claim of henry louis gates that slave owning by ancestors of ben affleck was less interesting than his heroic ancestors doesn’t pass the laugh test,” feldstein said. “we can be. And he admits it. "after an exhaustive search of my ancestry for finding your roots, it was discovered that one of my distant relatives was an owner of slaves," affleck wrote on facebook tuesday.