Posted on 05/13/2025 8:54:49 PM PDT by Libloather
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin revealed Monday she now “loves” Pope Leo XIV after discovering his “black” background.
Hostin had previously expressed concerns about the new pontiff on Friday after his comments referencing the “homosexual lifestyle” resurfaced. On Monday, she spoke more optimistically about Pope Leo after learning his maternal grandparents were described as “people of color” on documents, with his grandfather’s original birthplace listed as Haiti.
“There’s one other thing that’s very interesting to me because President Trump, as you remember, called Haiti a certain type of country,” Hostin said. “As it turns out, our new American pope has Haitian and black roots! So, we actually have a black pope, apparently. It’s a chef’s kiss for me.”
After Pope Leo was announced on Thursday, Hostin said she was “concerned” about the LGBTQ community based on a statement he made in 2012 as a bishop where he described how pop culture had fostered “sympathy for beliefs and practices that are at odds with the gospel,” including the “homosexual lifestyle” and “alternative families comprised of same-sex partners and their adopted children.”
Hostin on Monday said she was more encouraged by Pope Leo based on comments from 2023 which she thought showed he had completely changed his position.
“He said, you know, he believes what Pope Francis believed is that a church is a church for everyone. The church is very inclusive. So, I’m liking this guy a lot! I’m loving the pope,” Hostin said.
Her co-hosts Ana Navarro and Whoopi Goldberg also praised Pope Leo after he gave a speech earlier that morning voicing support for imprisoned journalists.
“He said he stands in solidarity with journalists who are imprisoned for reporting the truth and urged them to avoid ideological or partisan language. I like that. I’m digging him,” Goldberg said.
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He looks black to me.
Whether someone is 0% Haitian, 1% Hatian, 99% Hayian, 100% Hatian, or any other amount should not make one bit of difference at all on what we think about a person. Many people do judge people based on the content of their character. Sunny hasn’t reached that level yet.
Race counts for everything, and if you don’t agree then you’re a racist.
Its all on ancestry.com. Plain as day. He is a fast tracked DEI Pope.
His maternal grandmother was light skinned “black” from New Orleans and his maternal grandfather was Haitian. His father was white French, etc. from New Orleans. His mother essentially passed as white. His mother’s family is mostly considered black. He would be considered white in Latin America, but is black by the one drop rule.
Sunny needs to return to grade school. White is a color.
There is NOTHING SUNNY about her....NOTHING she’s is a MISERABLE RACIST!
“She gives airheads a bad name.”
Pope Leo should wear a red hat with MVGA (Make Vatican Great Again) written on it. Explode the heads of the left.
When she traced back her lineage found out they where slave owners.
On the Thibault side of my family. They lived in Haiti for some years. They were silver smith. When the slaves revolted, they got the first ship out of town. Happened to make port in Philadelphia, where they continued their silver business. There are several pieces of their silver in the Philadelphia Art Museum.
Why is it that if a person has any amount of black heritage, he’s considered black? That has always bugged me.
Their racism knows no bounds. She literally admits she likes him now because she sees him as black...
Black = Royal Blood in the leftist pantheon.
I thought his mother’s maiden name is Martinez. Very Spanish and apparently she came from the Dominican republic or her family did. That is the Spanish side of the same island Haiti is on, but it is not Haiti. It would be interesting to find out the truth here.
Black as a black cat in a coal bin at midnight on a moonless night ...
Black as Nancy Pelosi’s heart ...
Black as the Ace of Spaces ...
THERE IS NO...NO LEFTIST JOURNALIST IMPRISONED ...FOR REPORTING THE TRUTH.
No worries, little Lefties, the truth has nothing to do with you!
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