As a follow-up to their earlier conversation on Monday where they denied that mental illness played a key role in mass shootings, even proclaiming that the mentally ill were immune from committing mass shootings, the radical cast of ABC’s The View dove to a new level of lunacy as faux-conservative co-host Ana Navarro proclaimed that blacks and Hispanics were not “immune” from “being a white supremacist.” It’s an accusation that has been leveled at black and Hispanics just for voting Republican.
Returning from a commercial break that ended a heated shouting match between co-host Sara Haines and Sunny Hostin, moderator Whoopi Goldberg whined about the focus on mental health. “We're talking about the insanity of people not recognizing that there are very specific issues,” she said. Of course, the issue she wanted to focus on was race.
“Race apparently turns out to be an issue in a lot of these killings,” she proclaimed, citing the Charleston, South Carolina church shooting from 2015. “We've seen it. People getting shot because they're black. We've seen people getting shot because they're there. We've seen them getting shot because they're Latina.”
She went on to bizarrely argue that what happened to subway attacker Jordan Neely was evidence that mental health should not be considered a major factor in mass shootings. “It is not just mental health. Because we had a mental health issue here in New York, and the young man is dead,” she proclaimed.
Hostin, a staunch racist, was “glad” Goldberg “brought up the race” angle. And without providing evidence, she pushed the narrative that the Hispanic man responsible for the Allen, Texas shooting was a white supremacist. “But this shooter who happened to be Hispanic and Latino, which is very bizarre to me, had a white supremacy moniker on him,” she said.
Before doing her habitual quotation of FBI Director Christopher Wray, she lashed out at those who call out her racism. “And so, you know, Christopher Wray – These are not my words. So people don't start with the I’m a race-baiter crap!” she spat.
“Christopher Wray said the biggest threat to our democracy is white supremacy and domestic terrorism. He testified before Congress,” she declared before lashing out again, this time at Republicans for trying to tackle mental health instead of curtailing gun rights, saying they “should be ashamed of themselves.”
Also latching onto the race angle, Navarro made her proclamation on white supremacy. “Look, being Hispanic or being black does not – or being anything, does not make you immune from being racist, from being radicalized, from being a white supremacist, from being evil, from being homicidal,” she asserted.
Navarro would later double down in response to this author’s video tweet of her comments. “WHERE IS THE LIE? … Having Hispanic blood or Black blood does not mean you cannot fancy yourself a white nationalist, and spread hate,” she tweeted.
WHERE IS THE LIE?
— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) May 8, 2023
The former leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, convicted last week of seditious conspiracy, is Afro-Latino.
Having Hispanic blood or Black blood does not mean you cannot fancy yourself a white-nationalist, and spread hate. https://t.co/xM2c9eVxqQ
It’s a heinous attack that has been leveled against Republicans like former gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder. An Los Angeles Times piece once called him “the Black face of white supremacy” and decried his “smug smile of a Black conservative.” The View has even accused black and Latino conservatives of being race traitors.
She was right that non-white people can be most of those other horrible things she listed; particularly racist. But she wouldn’t dare call out Hostin for her history of making racist remarks; like when she called white women “roaches,” decried American gun owners for being white, and called former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley a racial 'chameleon' and falsely accused her of changing her name to appear white. As for Navarro, she has suggested Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) was a race traitor.
The View’s denial of the mental health crisis in America was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Colonial Penn and Mars. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
May 8, 2023
11:25:16 a.m. EasternWHOOPI GOLDBERG: We're talking about the insanity of people not recognizing that there are very specific issues. Race apparently turns out to be an issue in a lot of these killings, because we know from the shooting in the church, you know, in the black church. We've seen it. People getting shot because they're black. We've seen people getting shot because they're there. We've seen them getting shot because they're Latina.
People are losing their minds for lots of different reasons. And so, it is not just mental health. Because we had a mental health issue here in New York, and the young man is dead. Okay? He was having a mental health issue. So, he can -- he can blame it all on mental health, if he wants to, but we know the truth. We need reform. It's that simple. We need reform. Whether it's making sure people do the background checks, whether it’s making sure we get AR-15s off—
All of those things are great. All of those things are up to us. We are the ones who are going to make this happen. They're not going to do it. So, either vote them back in with their guy that leads them or make a change. You know, it's getting closer to everybody. I hope you see this. It's a terrible thing to know. So, if you want it to change, you've got to do it. It's not going to do it by itself.
Everything y'all said was valid, but it's on us. This is on us.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Well, I'm glad you brought up the race piece, because – and we won’t – we're not going to mention what the name of the group he belonged to was --
GOLDBERG: Yeah.
HOSTIN: But this shooter who happened to be Hispanic and Latino, which is very bizarre to me, had a white supremacy moniker on him. And so, you know, Christopher Wray – These are not my words. So people don't start with the I’m a race-baiter crap!
Christopher Wray said the biggest threat to our democracy is white supremacy and domestic terrorism. He testified before Congress. Even with that testimony, you have someone named Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, where there have been so many shootings, saying mental health, and there’s – there's nothing else that we can do, but we can do this piece.
Republicans should be ashamed of themselves. They have the power to make the change. Get rid of the A-15s and get rid of these evil guns.
[Crosstalk]
ANA NAVARRO: We all have to remember, that the head of the Proud Boys, his name is Enrique Tario. The Proud Boys is a white nationalist group.
Look, being Hispanic or being black does not – or being anything, does not make you immune from being racist, from being radicalized, from being a white supremacist, from being evil, from being homicidal. And we are seeing it over and over again. There are people, you know – They don't see themselves as what they are.
