Ben Affleck Tries To Censor His Slave Owning Ancestor From TV Show

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“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 asking who the guy was,” the actor Tweeted on Wednesday. “His name was Benjamin Cole — lived in Georgia on my mom’s side about six generations back.”

Affleck, 42, came under fire after an email exchange posted on Wikileaks revealed that he had asked the team behind the PBS program “Finding Your Roots” not to include Cole in an episode about his family tree. ”

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