The View’s racism was on full display during the Thursday edition of the unfortunately popular ABC News program. Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin bitterly lashed out at the white South Africans fleeing persecution and parroted the South African president’s denials. And while they denounced America as a racist and sexist country, moderator Whoopi Goldberg defended her and Hostin’s racism.
Hostin kicked off her racist ranting by whining that they had yet to mention President Trump taking in those South African refugees, getting tired groans from the liberal audience fed up with him. Without going over the evidence, Hostin parroted the denials from President Cyril Ramaphosa:
And I think something we're not talking about is – enough about is what Donald Trump did on Monday is the Trump administration allowed in 59 white South African refugees into this country, claiming that they were fleeing racial discrimination and land appropriation.
So, the South African president has been actively, you know, denying at and denying that persecution. He says, ‘a refugee is someone who has to leave their country out of fear of political persecution, religious persecution, or economic persecution, they don't fit that bill.’
“So what do you think is the bottom line, Sunny?” co-host Joy Behar asked, attempting to tee her up to blame the refugees’ race. “Well,” she began before cutting herself off, to the laughter of the audience because they knew where she would go with it.
Responding to co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin who lamented the Trump administration’s rescindment of refugee status from Afghans brought in after the U.S. withdrawal, Hostin sneered: “And yet, we are welcoming white South Afrikaners!”
Hostin was relieved when Behar went there with race on her behalf:
BEHAR: They're not white people. That's why they don't want them here. It’s obvious to me.
HOSTIN: She said it, I didn't!
Later in the show, co-host Sara Haines drew condemnation of America from Hostin and moderator Whoopi Goldberg, after she said she didn’t vote solely based on race, sex, and other non-policy factors:
HAINES: Oh. But, no, but the thing is I don't look at people first by the woman, a black man, a gay person, a this, I look at the best candidate and then they happen to have all these other things they bring to it.
HOSTIN: You may be a little different from most of the country.
GOLDBERG: Yeah, for most.
“I would say we got to stop telling the America public what they're ready for,” Haines defended America.
“We lost twice when women ran!” shouted Behar. “And the bottom is this county is a misogynistic country,” Hostin later shouted too.
Haines dared to question if there were other reasons Democrats like Secretary Hillary Clinton and Vice president Kamala Harris didn’t win. “Is there no distinguishing factors to each woman and why they might have lost? Is there no nuance?” she chided.
Whoopi defends her and Hostin's racism:
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Goldberg would chime in to literally defend her and Hostin’s racism:
GOLDBERG: I just want to point something out. You know, it's very important that when we're talking that you all understand why we talk from a color place because that's how we're judged. That's how we're seen.
HOSITN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: And so it's very important for people to understand that.
DISCLOSURE: The Founder and President of the Media Research Center, L. Brent Bozell III was nominated by the Trump administration to be the ambassador to South Africa.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
May 15, 2025
11:07:02 a.m. Eastern(…)
SUNNY HOSTIN: And I think something we're not talking about is – enough about is what Donald Trump did on Monday is the Trump administration allowed in 59 white South African refugees –
[Audience groans]
-into this country, claiming that they were fleeing racial discrimination and land appropriation.
So the South African president has been actively, you know, denying at and denying that persecution. He says, ‘a refugee is someone who has to leave their country out of fear of political persecution, religious persecution, or economic persecution, they don't fit that bill.’
And so, the fact that Afghan refugees, people who helped us during the Afghanistan war, helped us and protected our troops, that program has been dismissed. The fact that Haitians that are truly refugees, they have been denied protective status!
JOY BEHAR: So what do you think is the bottom line, Sunny?
HOSTIN: Well – [Cuts herself off]
[Laughter]
ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: No, but for all the attacks at the Trump administration – at the time campaign made on the Biden administration over what I agree was a disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. We're once again betraying the Afghan people -
HOSTIN: Yes, we are.
FARAH GRIFFIN: - by saying if you're here under SIV and have a right as a refugee, you fought alongside us, we're sending you back to Hell, to daily beating, a lack of basic freedoms.
[Crosstalk]
HOSTIN: And yet, we are welcoming white South Afrikaners.
BEHAR: They’re not white [inaudible] that’s the truth.
FARAH GRIFFIN: Double betrayal!
SARA HAINES: Picking beefs with allies. It tracks with everything else.
HOSTIN: What was that, Joy?
BEHAR: They're not white people. That's why they don't want them here. It’s obvious to me.
HOSTIN: She said it, I didn't!
[Applause]
(…)
11:16:33 a.m. Eastern
HAINES: I'm Governor Wes Moore all the way.
BEHAR: Wes Moore is very good idea.
HAINES: And if you don't know who he is, you should learn because to me he's the most qualified amazing candidate I've seen in my lifetime! He will be president!
BEHAR: So you agree with Crockett then?
HAINES: He's black.
BEHAR: That you can't have a woman.
HOSTIN: You can’t have a woman.
HAINES: Oh. But, no, but the thing is I don't look at people first by the woman, a black man, a gay person, a this, I look at the best candidate and then they happen to have all these other things they bring to it.
HOSTIN: You may be a little different from most of the country.
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: Yeah, for most.
[Laughter]
HAINES: I don’t know. I would say we got to stop telling the America public what they're ready for.
FARAH GRIFFIN: We’ll elected a black man before.
BEHAR: We lost twice when women ran! I mean –
HAINES: Is there no distinguishing factors to each woman and why they might have lost? Is there no nuance?
HOSTIN: Hillary Clinton was one of the most qualified candidates in presidential –
[Applause]
HAINES: She carried a lot of Clinton baggage.
FARAH GRIFFIN: She was polarizing.
BEHAR: She lost to a failed game show host! Okay?!
HOSTIN: Yes, she was more qualified.
HAINES: I loved her. I voted for her, but the number one thing I heard about from people who didn't like her there was a mystery about the Clinton baggage they took. ‘I just don't trust her.’
HOSTIN: They weaponize her husband against Hillary Clinton. And the bottom is this county is a misogynistic country and this country is a country that out of all the first world countries hasn't been able to elect a female president! That's just factual!
FARAH GRIFFIN: Okay. Listen, sexism, racism, absolutely exist. It absolutely is a factor in elections. It is not the determinative factor in the 2024 election, and I disagreed strongly with President Biden when he basically blamed that on why Kamala Harris lost. She outperformed Joe Biden when he was in the race. The numbers went up. The fundraising went up. She had a short window to run and I think all the data that we have when you see why she lost the battleground states; it is not because a bunch of racist Democrats didn't turn out for her. That’s not why.
[Crosstalk]
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I just want to point something out. You know, it's very important that when we're talking that you all understand why we talk from a color place because that's how we're judged. That's how we're seen.
HOSITN: Yeah.
GOLDBERG: And so it's very important for people to understand that.
And, listen, you're all smart people. You're all smart people. Know, you can't -- you cannot ask people to run and I they're running because they want to make sure gay and straight people have the same rights, that women have the same rights as a man in this country. These can't be weaponized as wokism. These -- you can't say, you know, well, you -- not you, but you can't say, ‘oh, you lost because you're woke.’
(…)
