Staunchly racist and anti-Semitic co-host of ABC’s The View, Sunny Hostin (the descendant of slave owners) was at it again; spewing her hate on Friday’s show and claiming that black Republicans didn’t exist at all, just like “unicorns.” She was joined by the liberal white ladies who lectured black Republican Congressman Byron Donalds (FL), who they suggested was ignorant of black history and should go back to school.
What had them triggered was Donalds talking to a group of black Republicans about black families and how liberal government policies work against them. They took an out-of-context, 27-second clip pushed by the Biden campaign and claimed he was romanticizing Jim Crow.
Hostin, who once scoffed that black Republicans was an “oxymoron” term, proclaimed that black Republicans simply didn’t exist and were mythical creatures. She also suggested that the black vote belonged to the Democratic Party:
I thought it was interesting that the framing was a room of black Republicans. Where are they? Where are they? Because if you look at the stats, 77 percent of – 81 percent, I'm sorry, of black men are part of the Democratic Party. Black voters consistently align with the Democratic Party. Ninety -- Over 95 percent of black women are part of the Democratic Party so these black men that he was speaking with, I'd love to see them. It would be like looking at unicorns.
It makes sense that Hostin would think black people belonged to the Democrats since they and her family kept them as property for a long time.
Her rant was teed up by Friday moderator and white liberal woman, Joy Behar, who condescendingly questioned Donalds’ intelligence. “So, my question to you, Sunny, is it stupidity like she says or is it something else?” she asked.
Casting doubt on a black man’s intelligence was a recurring theme for Behar during the segment. “So, my question is, does Byron Donalds, does he not know the history, or is he just wanting to pander?” she asked pretend-independent and fellow white liberal woman Sara Haines.
Just over a year ago, Behar scolded Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and suggested they didn’t know what it was like to be black in America.
In her response, Haines argued that Donalds and the other black people in the audience needed to go back to school to be more educated like her:
What’s scary is when you hear the audio there are a lot of people going, “uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.” So, it feels like a class needs to be taught to everyone in that room, segregation left you with no choice. Like, you weren't picking the family. They were literally making you go to different places. They didn't allow for -- so, talking about a black person choosing to be with your family and then looking at the greater social scheme and the injustice of that, he must not know what it is? I mean, that seems like a far leap not to understand Jim Crow, segregation, and the separation of the race. I don't understand.
Of course, faux-conservative co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin (who flip-flops between being white or Middle Eastern, depending on what role she needs to play) was useless in explaining that the clip was out of context. Instead, she took part in the Donalds bashing because he supported former President Trump.
“Byron Donalds is one of many jockeying to be Donald Trump's running mate…I consider him to be kind of in the second tier,” she chided.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
June 7, 2024
11:03:54 a.m. EasternJOY BEHAR: So, my question is, does Byron Donalds, does he not know the history, or is he just wanting to pander?
SARA HAINES: Nor did anyone else in the room know – What’s scary is when you hear the audio there are a lot of people going, “uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh.” So, it feels like a class needs to be taught to everyone in that room, segregation left you with no choice. Like, you weren't picking the family. They were literally making you go to different places. They didn't allow for -- so, talking about a black person choosing to be with your family and then looking at the greater social scheme and the injustice of that, he must not know what it is? I mean, that seems like a far leap not to understand Jim crow, segregation and the separation of the race. I don't understand.
ANA NAVARRO: If he doesn't know, shame on him, because there is nothing worse, I think, that when people achieve certain status and certain rights and don't appreciate, take for granted the struggles, the death, the fights, the marches, everything it took to be able to give Byron Donalds the opportunity he has now. Because under Jim crow he couldn't vote, he wouldn't have been in Congress, he couldn't have married his wife. He's married to a lovely woman named Erica, who’s white. Interracial marriage was illegal in Florida until 1969. He could have not gone to Florida State University for over 100 years black students were not admitted to that university. Over 250 blacks were lynched in Florida under Jim crow.
HAINES: That we know of.
NAVARRO: For him to be waxing nostalgic about that era that elicits so much pain that was such a dark period in the history of the United States is offensive, and for him to be doing it as a black man, as a person of color is even more offensive.
What really drives me crazy, though is that it's like every three months a Republican says something more stupid about black history and slavery, right?
[Applause]
I mean, last year we had Ron DeSantis saying -- defending that there was good things about slavery, skills that were learned that could be put to good use, then we had Nikki Haley who couldn't admit that slavery was the cause of the Civil War –
BEHAR: So, my question to you, Sunny, is it stupidity like she says or is it something else?
HAINES: I think it's pandering. I don't think it's stupidity.
BEHAR: To whom?
HOSTIN: It’s pandering to Donald Trump.
I thought it was interesting that the framing was a room of black Republicans. Where are they? Where are they? Because if you look at the stats, 77 percent of – 81 percent, I'm sorry, of black men are part of the Democratic Party. Black voters consistently align with the Democratic Party. Ninety -- Over 95 percent of black women are part of the Democratic Party so these black men that he was speaking with, I'd love to see them. It would be like looking at unicorns.
And so I think that the sad thing is, you know, I agree with you, Ana, is that this came from the mouth of a black man, right? And so, if you're pandering yourself and your community and your history to a man like Donald Trump who is a disgraced, one-term, twice impeached, convicted felon, we get to say now, is even more despicable in this country.
BEHAR: Alyssa.
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: And well, in the broader context here, Byron Donalds is one of many jockeying to be Donald Trump's running mate. He’s among the names that reportedly Donald Trump has requested materials from and is wanting to look seriously into. I consider him to be kind of in the second tier. I don't think he's one of the top contenders.
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