In reacting to a Congressional hearing regarding woke and other far-left exhibits being promoted by the Smithsonian, The View cast stumbled over themselves as they lashed out at Republicans. For her part, chronically aggrieved co-host Sunny Hostin was irritated and suggested the opposition to such exhibits specifically came from a refusal to pay her and other black people “our due” via reparations. Meanwhile, Hostin was the descendant of slave owners who has not made an effort to pay reparations herself.
“I think the reason, the real reason behind this is about financial repair to the descendants to the enslaved Africans,” Hostin proclaimed. “Reparations. I think this reflects a really broad effort by the Trump administration to reshape the way the nation's history is told so this country does not have to pay black people for the forced labor and the unpaid labor that built this country.”
Of course, to someone as staunchly racist as Hostin only black people and no other group “built this country.”
What Hostin was really driven by was jealousy and greed. She made that fact clear by whining about other groups:
Let's face it, when you have truth and reconciliation commissions, and you have them when it comes to interned Japanese Americans, you had them when it comes to the Holocaust, you've had them when it comes to Native Americans. It has not happened, true and reconciliation commissions, when it comes to slavery.
The major difference between those truth and reconciliation commissions and demanding reparations for slavery in 2026 is the fact that no one alive today was enslaved, and the gulf in between the generations that experienced it. Those other effort to make amends were given to the people who actively experienced it in real time.
Sunny Hostin whines that the Trump administration doesn't want America to pay her and other black people "our due" via reparations.
Hostin's family owned slaves and tried to out run the abolition of slavery, but she has not made an effort to find and repay their descendants. pic.twitter.com/dk6kPukKh2— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) July 22, 2026
Hostin continued her diatribe by rambling on about how there was also an effort to “erase that truth” that slavery happened. She once again put the United Nations above the United States, the country she’s “embarrassed” by:
And that is because they're trying to bury the truth part. You cannot have true reconciliation, and you cannot have true financial repair unless you have the truth! And they're trying to erase that truth.
So to actually -- it's very important, because I want to mention that in March 25, 2026, just this year, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution officially declaring that the transatlantic trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of African Americans is the gravest crime against humanity in history, in the world.
She finally concluded: “This is not about anything else. It's about this country trying to avoid paying African Americans our due.”
Well, as NewsBusters previously reported, Hostin has never tried to pay what’s due from her family to those they enslaved. Yet the multimillionaire felt that she deserved reparations: “I still believe in reparations! By the way. So, y'all can stop texting me and emailing me and saying that I'm a white girl and I don't deserve reparations! (…) so I still believe in reparations. I still believe this country has a lot to do in terms of racial justice.”
While calling the revelations a "bummer" she went on to snap at her critics and insisted "I still believe in reparations." pic.twitter.com/Pdh4mgOpI7
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 6, 2026
ABC and The View did not respond to NewsBusters’ latest request for comment on Hostin’s reparation demands nor any of our fair questions about her activity over the last two-and-half years. Here are those questions:
-Has Hostin made any effort to find out who her family enslaved?
-Does she know who her family enslaved?
-If they have any, has she attempted to reach out to any of their living descendants?
-Has she offered to pay them reparations or set up any sort of fund for those descendants?
-How much is she willing to pay them in reparations?
-If she hasn't done any of these things, why not?
Over the years, Hostin had insisted that she personally deserved to receive reparations from both the U.S. and U.K. (despite being a multimillionaire TV co-host).
The transcripts are below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
July 22, 2026
11:07:56 a.m. Eastern(…)
SUNNY HOSTIN: I think the reason, the real reason behind this is about financial repair to the descendants to the enslaved Africans.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Say what you mean, so people understand. Yes.
HOSTIN: Reparations. I think this reflects a really broad effort by the Trump administration to reshape the way the nation's history is told so this country does not have to pay black people for the forced labor and the unpaid labor that built this country.
JOY BEHAR: That’s right.
HOSTIN: I really think that this is what this is about!
If you look at Project 2025, that's what this is about.
BEHAR: Follow the money!
HOSTIN: Because even after 250 years, there's so much repair that needs to be done when it comes to aggrieved groups in this country, but especially African Americans.
Let's face it, when you have truth and reconciliation commissions, and you have them when it comes to interned Japanese Americans, you had them when it comes to the Holocaust, you've had them when it comes to Native Americans. It has not happened, true and reconciliation commissions, when it comes to slavery.
And that is because they're trying to bury the truth part. You cannot have true reconciliation, and you cannot have true financial repair unless you have the truth! And they're trying to erase that truth.
So to actually -- it's very important, because I want to mention that in March 25, 2026, just this year, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution officially declaring that the transatlantic trafficking and racialized chattel enslavement of African Americans is the gravest crime against humanity in history, in the world.
Only three countries voted against it, Argentina, Israel, and the United States. And when the United States voted against it, the United States said the following: “it does not recognize legal right to reparations for historical wrongs that were not illegal under international law at the time they occurred.”
And so what this is about is money, Joy. This is not about anything else. It's about this country trying to avoid paying African Americans our due.
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