Twenty four hours after suggesting that only white people could be racist because of “a power dynamic,” ABC’s The View suddenly decided “minorities can be racist against each other, too” on Tuesday. This hypocritical flip-flop came after the Latina Democratic president of the Los Angeles City Council, Nury Martinez made racist remarks, captured on a secret recording, against “the blacks,” “dark Koreans,” and a black child who she called a “monkey” in Spanish.
Of course, the fact Martinez is a Democrat wasn’t mentioned on the show but Sunny Hostin opined about the incident “as Afro-Latina” and how she “grew up” experiencing “anti-blackness, anti-black hatred in the Latino community.” “And that's always been a painful thing I have dealt with, the anti-blackness in the Latino community, and it has to stop. It has to stop with this,” she declared.
After Hostin noted her mother is a “white Puerto Rican” and her father is “a black man,” self-described Republican Ana Navarro sympathized with her saying that kind of racism “exists” and that “minorities can be racist against each other, too.” “Yes. Yes,” Hostin agreed.
NewsBusters readers might have some whiplash after hearing Hostin admit that. It was only Monday when she hinted at believing the warped definition of racism being about a “power dynamic,” thus only white people could be racist (a racist belief in and of itself, going by the honest definition instead). And she whined about being called out as racist for her many racist comments.
Shortly following the Hostin/Navarro exchange, faux Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin did her usual groveling to curry favor with Hostin, bloviating about how one was obliged to call out racism:
But it’s a reminder that if you want to be allies in being anti-racist across the board, even if you're hearing something that's offensive, you have an obligation to call it out. It's kind of like someone was sitting there sort of passively, and while he may have not said it you have an obligation to say that is wrong, here's why it's wrong if you don't understand.
Farah Griffin wasted all that air making that proclamation when she refuses to call out Hostin for her own racist rants against black and Latino Republicans. She sat by while Hostin made disparaging racial remarks about former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley's skin tone by calling her a racial “chameleon,” and suggesting she changed her name to sound white.
After Hostin attacked Haley’s name, co-host Sara Haines called out Hostin for using the fake name “Sunny.” Farah Griffin can be heard saying “I didn’t want to be the one to say it.” So, she effectively didn’t feel obliged to speak out against racism. Instead, she made a mealy mouth note that “Nikki” had been her name since childhood and preferred to go by that because of racism.
But perhaps Hostin won’t hold it against her. Toward the end of the segment, she whined about how hard it is to speak out and about the backlash she gets:
But I also want to say, it is hard to speak up when you see something's going wrong. We all do it a lot, and we get so much backlash. But I'm telling you, it's worth it. It’s worth every time you call someone out, it is worth it because it's a teachable moment. Please people do it more.
Meanwhile, earlier in the show, Hostin and Navarro came out in agreement with Vice President Harris that hurricane relief funds should be given out based on race and decried the backlash she got for it:
NAVARRO: When she says that low-income and people of color need to be reprioritized and that we don't start from the same level when it comes to hurricanes, she's right.
HOSTIN: And she's called racist for saying it.
Yes, distributing relief funds based on race IS racist, Sunny Hostin IS racist, and The View IS okay with racism when it suits them. And we will take Hostin’s advice and continue to call out her racism.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
October 11, 2022
11:06:30 a.m. Eastern(…)
ANA NAVARRO: The narrative I reject, which Republicans are laser-focused on is building the narrative that Kamala Harris is a bumbling idiot. She's not. She is a brilliant woman who has broken glass ceilings and has great achievements.
And I think, you know, I remember when Kamala was after first named as to the vice president's ticket. There were all of these people who said, “we got your back. We got your back.” I don't know where those people have been because we have let people criticize the way she laughs, the way she dresses, take the things she says out of context.
When she says that low-income and people of color need to be reprioritized and that we don't start from the same level when it comes to hurricanes, she's right.
SUNNY HOSTIN: And she's called racist for saying it.
(…)
11:17:11 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: And I’d like to add as an Afro-Latina, that – What surprised me most is that not one person in that room said, “you don't say that. How dare you.” And I will tell you, I get that there is a lot of anti-blackness, anti-black hatred in the Latino community, because I grew up with it.
And I think they have a picture of my parents. [Picture appears on-screen] And those are my parents. My mother obviously is a white Puerto Rican. My father is a black man. She’s also Jewish. And my mother tells me sometimes, you would be surprised at the things that people say to me when I am in a room because they don't know I'm married to your father, and they don't know you're my daughter. And it's a very painful --
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: People say it even when they know, because they think you don't understand what they're saying.
HOSTIN: And that's always been a painful thing I have dealt with, the anti-blackness in the Latino community, and it has to stop. It has to stop with this.
NAVARRO: But Sunny, I have to – I want to tell you. There’s been a lot of work – First, it exists, right.
HOSTIN: Yes, it does.
NAVARRO: Minorities can be racist against each other, too.
HOSTIN: Yes. Yes.
GOLDBERG: Yes.
NAVARRO: And what often happens is that blacks and browns get pitted against each other to compete for the same small piece of pie.
HOSTIN: Yes, they do.
NAVARRO: What we need to do is get together and united, ask for more pie, and demand more pie,
(…)
11:18:47 a.m. Eastern
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: But it’s a reminder that if you want to be allies in being anti-racist across the board, even you're hearing something that's offensive, you have an obligation to call it out. It's kind of like someone was sitting there sort of passively, and while he may have not said it you have an obligation to say that is wrong, here's why it's wrong if you don't understand.
GOLDBERG: Grow some cojones.
(…)
11:19:23 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: But I also want to say, it is hard to speak up when you see something's going wrong. We all do it a lot, and we get so much backlash. But I'm telling you, it's worth it. It’s worth every time you call someone out, it is worth it because it's a teachable moment. Please people do it more.
(…)
