Ben Affleck Gets PBS Show 'Finding Your Roots' Suspended For Censorship [Video]
Finding Your Roots, which airs on PBS, has been suspended following an investigation in which the network found that embarrassing details about Ben Affleck’s ancestors were censored. Finding Your Roots traces the family histories of celebrities, and, in accordance with network policy, is supposed to be devoted to revealing the truth, even if show guests aren’t happy about it.
When Ben agreed to be on the show, he hoped to find “the roots of his family’s interest in social justice,” reports the Washington Post. Instead, researchers divulged that he had an ancestor that owned slaves. According to the Washington Post, Benjamin Cole, a great-great-great grandparent on Affleck’s mother’s side, was the “trustee” of seven slaves, as well as a sheriff in Chatham County, Georgia, in the 1850s.
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