Ben Affleck Requested His Slave Owner Ancestor Be Censored From PBS' 'Finding Your Roots'
Now that's humor!
Hacked Sony emails reveal that actor-director Ben Affleck requested that his slave owner ancestor be removed from his family tree on the PBS program Finding Your Roots.
In a series of WikiLeaks emails, the genealogy program's host Henry Louis Gates Jr. emailed Sony chief Michael Lynton asking "advice" on the actor's request, according to the New York Daily News.
"For the first time, one of our guests has asked us to edit out something about one of his ancestors — the fact that he owned slaves," Gates emailed Lynton in the July 22, 2014 email chain.
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