The View hosts were on a rant about how the US owes operations across the board when host Sunny Hostin shared her little whine about how everyone calls her out on her racism when she’s just ‘calling it as she sees it’:
“I think when you talk about reparations, it’s such a hot button issue. The minute you start talking about reparation, people call you a racist. And I’ve always said, you know, please, people need to start just looking up what the definition of racism is. It’s really a power dynamic. It’s not just about the color of your skin.
And I think when you talk about those who committed crimes who owe reparations, those are the people who committed the atrocities of slavery, who stole land, who killed indigenous people.
Today, is indigenous people’s day. Those reparations are still owed, and so to sort of try to subvert the conversation and bastardize the conversation and call people racist because you call out racism is something that I get to experience every single day on social media, thank you very much. I am somehow a race baiter and a racist because I call it like I see it.”
Hostin added, “I think it’s being used as a political wedge issue now. Everything is racist. Everything is racist, especially if you call it out.”
Sara Haines, the token conservative, followed Hostin up by adding that what people are the issue, “This is full stop racism to so many levels. And they clearly don’t understand what reparations are because the people committing those crimes were the white people,” she snarked.
That’s when Whoopi Goldberg chimed in and demanded operations because the US ‘over stepped’:
“let us not forget that America has paid reparations before to folks for wrongdoing. Okay? So, that’s what the reparations are about, is recognizing when you’ve overstepped. Okay? That’s what that’s about. So when you want to throw one group – remember, if we’re going to throw stuff around, everybody’s got a lot to answer. The whole idea is to recognize there’s an issue and deal with it, which y’all continue not to do, which is why the problem remains.”
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I find it kind of ironic that Hostin’s chief complaint about social media is that people call her out for race-baiting and being a bigot when the majority of her conversations revolve around race—And she has the audacity to complain that “everything is about race now day”. Yes, because people like her are making everything about race—Simple.
Erica Carlin is an independent journalist, opinion writer and contributor to several news and opinion sources. She is based in Georgia.