Author Coleman Hughes Turns the Tables and Demolishes The View’s Co-Host Sunny Hostin

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin got creamed after she told a guest, author Coleman Hughes, that he was a pawn and a charlatan. Hughes was on “The View” to promote his book “The End of Race Policies,” in which he promoted a colorblind society where merit should be the overriding factor in hiring.

This reminds me of a story that I cannot confirm to be true, but it could be true. Jesse Jackson went to an employer, and he told him how many black managers he must have to fit a racial quota. The boss had his secretary send two managers into his office. Both men were black, and he told them they were fired. He then turned to Jackson and  said, “Okay, we now have the correct number of black managers.” Of course, the two men were not fired, and they went back to work.

Hughes argues in his literary work for a color-blind society centered on treating people “without regard to race.” He insists that people should be treated based on their abilities, without regard for race or gender. Hostin regards that as being simply wrong and accused him of being a tool for the Republicans. But Hughes has never voted for a Republican in his life.

Hughes said:

“I think I view this notion of a colorblind society, similar to the idea of a peaceful society, which is to say it’s an ideal, it’s a North Star. And the point is not that we’re never gonna get there, we’ll never touch it, but we have to know when we’re going forward and when we’re going backward, and we’re going backward when we’re doing woke kindergarten in San Francisco.”

Hostin proceeded to call Hughes a liar, claiming King pushed for reparations while touting her friendship with King’s daughter, Bernice. She then personally attacked him as a charlatan and a pawn for conservatives.

“I think the premise is fundamentally flawed, said Hostin.” 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. 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.” He also said in 1968, it was about less than a week before he was assassinated, “This country never stops to realize that they owe a people kept in slavery for 244 years.”

“So, rather than class, he did write about that earlier on,” she continued. “Right before his death, he made the argument for racial equality and racial reparations, and so your argument for color-blindness, I think, is 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, believe that you are being used as a pawn by the right and that you’re a charlatan of sorts.”

From The Gateway Pundit

Coleman Hughes holds his own on The View, calls out Sunny Hostin for her attempts to use ad hominem attacks instead of debating his ideas.

And he explains why being in favor of color blind policies instead of race-based policies is more beneficial. pic.twitter.com/ixZDy9YOGv

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There are just a couple of problems: Hughes is neither a conservative nor a Republican. Yet Hostin proceeded to embarrass herself by insisting he was one for the next several seconds, even after RINO “The View” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin attempted to correct her multiple times.

Once Hughes finally got the opportunity to speak again, he turned the tables and started dominating the conversation. He stuck to his guns regarding a colorblind society and slapped down Hostin’s lies regarding him being co-opted. He also pointed out King wanted a bill of rights for a broad class-based society.

“I think it’s very important,” Hughes said. “The quote that you just pointed out about doing something special for the Negro, that’s from the book Why We Can’t Wait that I just mentioned. A couple paragraphs later he lays out exactly what that something special was and it was the bill of rights for the disadvantaged, a broad class-based policy.”

“I don’t think I’ve been co-opted by anyone,” Hughes continued. “I’ve only voted twice, both for a Democrats. Although, I’m an independent.”

“I think that’s an ad hominem tactic people use to not address, really, the important conversations we’re having here…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 no one is paying me to say what I’m saying. I’m saying it because I feel it.”

Hostin could barely get in more than a few words in response to Hughes’s calm evisceration before Whoopi Goldberg cut her off.