Author Coleman Hughes demonstrated the patience of a saint while appearing on The View on Wednesday to discuss a new book he wrote arguing for “colorblindness” in the U.S.
While the discussion was mostly respectful, Sunny Hostin, a multimillionaire who believes she deserves reparations, clearly had venom for Hughes. When Hughes was being introduced, every host applauded him (along with the audience), except for Hostin, who took a drink from her mug instead.
Early on Hostin tried to shame him for going against the leftist racial orthodoxy; "Your argument for colorblindness, I think it’s something that the right has co-opted, and so many in the Black community, if I’m being honest with you, because I want to be, believed that you are being used as a pawn by the right and that you are charlatan of sorts," she said.
When Hughes asked for specifics on who exactly was saying that, Hostin replied that “you’ve said that you’re a conservative.” Hughes is a registered independent who has never voted for a Republican, and Hostin claimed he identified himself as a conservative on a podcast two weeks ago. Hostin was either misremembering or making this up. Unable to say who was accusing Hughes of being co-opted or how, Hostin pretended she only brought that up so Hughes would have the opportunity to address the allegations she invented.
This came as Hostin tried to educate Hughes on Dr. Martin Luther King’s views on colorblindness, only for Hughes to immediately debunk her talking points. At one point, Hostin misquotes King's I Have a Dream speech as saying that people should be judged by the "Content of color [not the] color of skin."
Watch the full appearance below:
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