Media personality Megyn Kelly blasted The View co-host Sunny Hostin for fueling racism with a call to accountability over racial divides that go back to the United States’s founding.
During The Megyn Kelly Show on SiriusXM earlier this week, Kelly played a clip from an episode of The View that aired Monday in which Hostin contrasted the unity following 9/11 with domestic terrorism.
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“The biggest threat to our country today, says the FBI’s director, is white supremacy and domestic terrorism. Merrick Garland said the biggest threat to our democracy is white supremacy and domestic terrorism,” Hostin said. “How do you come together when it’s homegrown terror?”
“We have never addressed why there is that issue that remains in this country 400 years later,” Hostin continued. “And until we get to that, until we have accountability, we are not, I don’t think, ever going to be able to come close to what we saw in terms of unity.”
Kelly told guest Amala Ekpunobi, host of the Unapologetic podcast, that Hostin’s “attitude is going to create racism” rather than demolish it.
“I have a genuine fear that this type of attitude is going to create racism where it was dying in the United States,” Kelly said. “It wasn’t eliminated, but it was dying. I don’t think you can just keep looking around at white people and saying you have to pay reparations.”
Ekpunobi suggested that, as a result, racial identification has wrongly become a dominant force in how people define themselves.
“It’s amazing to me that we’ve managed to allow these ideas to sort of fester and grow for so long,” Ekpunobi said. “Now, so many people have just reduced themselves down to these three or four superficial characteristics, and they think that makes them as a person.”
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Kelly added that discussions around race, such as the conversation on The View, will only create racial divides and “real resentment.”
Hostin’s comments on race also made news headlines when she exhorted viewers to “mourn the queen and not the empire” for its colonization following the announcement of Queen Elizabeth II’s death.
