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Sunny Hostin: America 'Still Is Sickened' With Racism and Slavery
Sunny Hostin, the staunchly racist co-host of ABC News’s The Views, was on a roll this week between declaring on Monday’s show that America was “founded” on “racism and slavery;” then doubling down on Tuesday’s edition of their Behind the Table podcast, saying “this country still is sickened” with such things.
In a bitter rant during Monday’s show, reacting to former First Lady Michelle Obama’s comments attacking America for not electing a woman yet, Hostin gave her take “as an afro-Latina” lashing out at America as racist:
Because of my lived experience as an afro-Latina, I'm able to look at this world with a different prism and I'm able to tell this country and tell this audience and tell my fellow co-hosts some uncomfortable truths. This is a country based on racism and slavery and founded in it. There is systemic racism. And misogyny
"I never met anyone that raises their hand and says, I'm racist,” she continued to attack Americans who voted for President Trump. “However, there are people that seem to be able to look the other way when it comes to racism. So you have a president who traffics in misogyny, who traffics in xenophobia, who traffics in sexism. And won against a black woman."
Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin lashes out at America for not electing a woman for president:
"Because of my lived experience an afro-Latina, I'm able to look at this world with a different prism and I'm able to tell this country and tell this audience and tell my fellow co-hosts… pic.twitter.com/dKWaCYbFPX
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 17, 2025
Fast forward to Tuesday’s podcast and executive producer Brian Teta mentioned her comment “had a lot of people talking online.” In discussion about wokeism, Hostin doubled down and asserted that America was still “sickened with” what she was talking about:
TETA: Well, the word “woke” just has been completely co-opted and changed into something different.
HOSTIN: It’s been co-opted and bastardized but yeah. I believe that to be aware of inequity and injustice is to be woke. And so now, they've turned it around like it's a bad thing to be aware that someone is suffering that someone doesn't have the same opportunity. And I just – I think it's ridiculous that people don't see what this country was founded on and what this country still is sickened with.
“It's a sick country. It’s a racist country,” she declared.
On The View's podcast, Sunny Hostin doubles down her anti-Americanism, that the country was and is still about racism and slavery: "I think it's ridiculous that people don't see what this country was founded on and what this country still is sickened with. it's a sick country.… pic.twitter.com/m6KYfPIUDC
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 19, 2025
Later in the podcast, Hostin scoffed at the idea of being racist toward whites:
A lot of it for me is a little bit different because it when you think about it. You have the Department of Justice suing law firms or investigating law firms for anti-white racism. I mean think about that they tried to sue investigate Perkins Coie, this law firm that only has three percent black lawyers there. Where is the discrimination?
What she conveniently omitted was how the firm allegedly announced that they would be implementing racial quotas for their hiring processes, according to the White House.
“So that's what I'm talking about in terms of this country. You know, white supremacy is – it has become a big thing. And not talking about it doesn't make it go away,” she sneered.
Teta brought the conversation back to Obama’s comments about America not being ready to elect a woman. Of course, Hostin agreed with her queen that it would happen “not in my life time.”
Hostin continued to spew racial resentment toward whites as she claims that America would never elect a black woman, and could more likely elect a "white conservative woman" even before a liberal one.
"Possible, but there's a lot of misogyny in this country as well, and sexism,"… pic.twitter.com/euHQTM4sS3
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 19, 2025
Hostin soon amended that position to add a touch of racism: “Maybe a woman, but not a black woman, ever. Not in my lifetime. (…) A white conservative woman, yes.”
Which she quickly tried dial back as well: “Possible, but there's a lot of misogyny in this country as well, and sexism.”
Clearly, Hostin’s “lived experience” is chronic racial grievance.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s Behind the Table
November 18, 2025
10:52
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BRIAN TETA: Sunny delivered some of what she called “uncomfortable truths” about racism in this country.
SUNNY HOSTIN: Yeah.
TETA: And that had a lot of people talking online
HOSTIN: And sexism.
TETA: And sexism that was really –
JOY BEHAR: I think that somebody said, this is not original. I forget which politician said it that wokeism is about racism really. Do you agree with that.
TETA: Well, the word “woke” just has been completely co-opted and changed into something different.
SUNNY HOSTIN: It’s been co-opted and bastardized but yeah. I believe that to be aware of inequity and injustice is to be woke. And so now, they've turned it around like it's a bad thing to be aware that someone is suffering that someone doesn't have the same opportunity. And I just – I think it's ridiculous that people don't see what this country was founded on and what this country still is sickened with. It's a sick country. It’s a racist country.
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12:29
HOSTIN: A lot of it for me is a little bit different because it when you think about it. You have the Department of Justice suing law firms or investigating law firms for anti-white racism. I mean think about that they tried to sue investigate Perkins Coie, this law firm that only has three percent black lawyers there. Where is the discrimination? So they’ve –
BEHAR: How many white lawyers do they have?
TETA: 97 percent.
HOSITN: 97 percent. Yet, they're being – they were investigated
BEHAR: That’s ridiculous!
HOSTIN: - by the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division.
BEHAR: They're under Trump?
HOSTIN: Yes.
BEHAR: Oh, well.
HOSTIN: So that's what I'm talking about in terms of this country. You know, white supremacy is – it has become a big thing. And not talking about it doesn't make it go away.
TETA: Well, going back to the Michelle Obama conversation. On the other side of it, right now after Election Day this year, there are 14 women leading states as governors in 2026, 10 Democrat, four Republican. Does that give you any hope that the country will get to a place where they feel comfortable with it?
HOSTIN: Not in my lifetime, but yeah.
BEHAR: I don't know. There’s Spanberger and the other one, I think could be in the running.
TETA: Not that it's necessarily them but just that the idea that the country is getting more comfortable with women leaders, or do you think there's a difference between –
HOSTIN: Maybe a woman, but not a black woman, ever. Not in my lifetime.
BEHAR: Yeah, well, there's always action then reaction, action reaction.
TETA: That's what I'm kind of hopeful for. I'm hopeful that things swing the other direction.
BEHAR: It's possible that somebody like a Liz Cheney could win being – if she wasn't in the – a dog house with her own party right now, she could be somebody who could run. I think maybe a conservative one would win faster than a liberal. It’s possible.
TETA: A lot of people think that. A lot of people think a conservative woman might win first.
HOSTIN: A white conservative woman, yes.
BEHAR: Maybe. Maybe.
HOSTIN: Possible, but there's a lot of misogyny in this country as well, and sexism.
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