'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 the Congressional hearings on the Smithsonian institution were about the Trump administration not wanting to award reparations to the descendants of slaves.Smithsonian National Museum of American History Director Dr.Anthea Hartig faced questions on Capitol Hill on Tuesday after a White House report published earlier this month found that the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History has become a taxpayer-backed institution of "ideological capture" and "extreme political activism.""The real reason behind this is about financial repair to the descendents of the enslaved Africans," Hostin said, as co-host Whoopi Goldberg pushed her to clarify what she meant. "Reparations," Hostin said.

"I think this reflects a broad effort by the Trump Administration to reshape the way the nation’s history is told, so this country does not have to pay Black people for the forced labor and the unpaid labor that built this country.I really think that this is what this is about."NEW YORK FAR-LEFT GROUP CLAIMS REPARATIONS 'OWED' AS BLACKS' MEDIAN WEALTH 'NEARLY 15 TIMES LESS' THAN WHITES"Even after 250 years, there’s so much repair that needs to be done when it comes to aggrieved groups in this country, but especially African Americans," Hostin said. "Let’s face it, when you have truth and reconciliation commissions, and you've have them when it comes to interned Japanese Americans, you've had them when it comes to the Holocaust, you’ve had them when it comes to Native Americans, it has not happened — truth and reconciliation commissions, when it comes to slavery.

And that is because they’re trying to bury the truth part.You cannot have true reconciliation, and then you cannot have true financial repair unless you have the truth.

And they’re trying to erase that truth," she said.Hostin noted that the United Nations General Assembly voted to declare the transatlantic slave trade to be "the gravest ...