A black author who believes in and promotes colorblindness went toe to toe with resident racist Sunny Hostin of “The View” on Wednesday.
Appearing on “The View” to promote his new book, “The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America,” author Coleman Hughes was targeted by Hostin for believing in colorblindness.
“Your argument for colorblindness, I think it’s something that the right has co-opted,” she said.
“And so many in the black community, if I’m being honest with you, because I want to be, believe that you are being used as a pawn by the right and that you are a charlatan of sorts,” she added.
Watch the full discussion below:
In response, fellow “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out that Hughes is in fact NOT a Republican. Given the option to respond, Hughes issued a similar point.
“I don’t think I’ve been co-opted by anyone,” he said. “I’ve only voted twice, both for Democrats. Although I’m an independent, I would vote for a Republican — probably a non-Trump Republican — if they were compelling.”
“I don’t think there’s any evidence I’ve been co-opted by anyone, and I think that that’s an ad hominem tactic that people use to not address, really, the important conversations we’re having here. I think it’s better and it would be better for everyone if we stuck to the topics rather than make it about me without any evidence that I’ve been co-opted,” he added.
When Hostin later doubled down on her attacks, Hughes likewise doubled down on his defense.
“There’s no evidence that I’ve been co-opted by anyone,” he said. “I have an independent podcast. I work for CNN as an analyst. I write for The Free Press. I’m independent in all of these endeavors and nobody is paying me to say what I’m saying. I’m saying it because I feel it.”
Today is the day!
My first book, “The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America,” is now out in fine bookstores everywhere!
The Audiobook is read by yours truly!https://t.co/61VkZ3ooM2
— Coleman Hughes (@coldxman) February 6, 2024
Elsewhere in the discussion, Hughes described why he decided to write a book promoting colorblindness in the first place.
“The reason I wrote this book is because in the past 10 years, it has become very popular to, in the name of anti-racism, teach a kind of philosophy to our children, in general, that says your race is everything,” he said. “And I think that is the wrong way to fight racism and that’s why I wrote this book at this time.”
He added that socio-economics is a better proxy to use to determine who boasts a disadvantage or two in life. As evidence, he pointed to the words of Martin Luther King Jr.
“What Martin Luther King wrote in his book ‘Why We Can’t Wait’ is [that] we need a bill of rights for the disadvantaged. And he said, yes, we should address racial equality, yes, we should address the legacy of slavery, but the way to do that is on the basis of class,” he said.
“And that will disproportionately target blacks and Hispanics because they’re disproportionately poor, but it will be doing so in a way that also helps the white poor in a way that addresses poverty as the thing to be addressed,” he added.
But Hostin disagreed with this as well.
“When you say that socio-economics picks out people in a better way than race, when you do look at the socio-economics, you see the huge disparity between white households and black households,” she said.
“You see the huge disparity between white households and Hispanic households. I’ve read your book twice, because I wanted to give it a chance. Your argument that race has no place in that equation is really fundamentally flawed,” she continued.
Notice how she forgot to mention Asians, who generally outperform white people despite also not being white.
We cannot ignore the brokenness of our world, but CRT makes it even more broken. CRT is rooted in destructive Marxist ideology, draws false conclusions (Truth=Asians outperform whites in wealth/education/health/salary, etc.) and dangerous proposals (pit races against each other).
— Carrie Sheffield (@carriesheffield) November 9, 2021
Hostin went on to claim that MLK had essentially been against colorblindness.
“You claim that color-blindness was the goal of the civil rights movement based upon Dr. King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech — you know, content of character versus color of skin,” she said.
“Bernice, Dr. King’s daughter, points out that four years after giving that speech actually, Dr. King also said this, ‘A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for negroes,'” she added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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