*Sunny Hostin criticized author Coleman Hughes during a discussion on “The View” on Wednesday, suggesting he was being “manipulated by the right.”
The conversation centered around his new book, “The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America,” and his advocacy for “colorblindness” in the United States, Fox News reports.
“The reason I wrote this book is because, in the past 10 years, it has become 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 during the segment. “And I think that is the wrong way to fight racism and that’s why I wrote this book at this time.”
Hughes believes everyone should make a concerted effort to “treat people without considering their race.”
“Your argument for colorblindness, I think it’s 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, believed that you are being used as a pawn by the right and that you are charlatan of sorts,” Hostin told the podcast host during the conversation.
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Hughes informed the hosts that he has never voted Republican and identifies as an Independent.
“I would vote for a Republican — probably a non-Trump Republican if they were compelling,” Hughes, a CNN analyst, told “The View” panel. “I don’t think there’s any evidence I’ve been co-opted by anyone and I think that’s an ad-hominem tactic people use to not address, really, the important conversations we’re having here.”
Hughes told Hostin, “No one is paying me to say what I’m saying.”
Hostin challenged his assertion that class socio-economics was a superior indicator in identifying who is disadvantaged.
“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. You see the huge disparity between White households and Hispanic households,” Hostin said. “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.”
Watch Coleman Hughes’ rebuttal in the YouTube clip below.
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