The View suggested that legislative measures in various states are limiting the teaching of some black history curricula in light of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday.
“Only about 12 states have a black history mandate, while 18 have passed laws severely limiting this curriculum. Now, it’s a vital part of American history, so what’s everybody so nervous about? Why are you nervous? The days have passed. We’re here now. Why is everybody freaking out about what was? Why can’t we talk about what was? We talked about what was with everything else,” co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked on Monday. “What do you think the end game is?”
Co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in, saying many people are trying to erase “bad stuff” in American history and the “contributions” of black people.
“Think people in America have been playing a long game, and I often say it’s conservatives, but it’s a lot of Americans,” Hostin said.
She continued, “I think what they do is they not only erase the ‘bad stuff’ that may make people feel bad, like slavery, which is responsible for the very foundation of this country. What concerns me even more is that they erase the contributions of people that don’t look like them.”
The crowd applauded as she explained how some people wanted “the contributions” of black people “erased.”
“So they erase the contributions of someone like Bayard Rustin. They erase the contributions of indigenous people. They have erased from history and teaching to our children that the freezer was developed by a black man, that the first open heart surgery was performed by a black man, and that the GPS technology that we all use today was developed by a black woman,” the View host added.
Hostin said this effort of “erasing contributions” was to “otherize someone else as less.”
“I think that is so sad because what is supposed to be the very foundation of this country is that we are all equal, but what happens is when you’ve had privilege for so long, equality feels a lot like oppression,” she said of people in America.
Co-host Ana Navarro joined the discussion to say that she believed the book banning movement was meant to “drive people to the polls.”
“My poor little white kid is feeling bad because he’s learning slavery,” Navarro mocked parents protesting progressive curriculum.
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“It’s important that it makes you feel bad,” Sara Haines interjected.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who is running to be the 2024 Republican nominee for president, notably signed the controversial Stop WOKE Act in 2022, requiring discussions about race to be taught in an “objective manner” and avoid conversations “used to indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view” in schools.
