ABC legal analyst Sunny Hostin told co-hosts on Friday's “The View” that America is still in a “fight to the death” to save the country from the “scourge of racism.” he said.
On Thursday, Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-South Carolina) said during a CNN town hall, “If you look closely, all men are created equal. I think the intention was to do the right thing.” Now, did they have to make repairs along the way? Yes, but I don't think it was ever the intention for us to be a racist country.”
Hostin said, “The problem with what she said about race is that I know she believes we have never been a racist country, but that she believes that we have never been a racist country, but that she is I am quoting the Declaration.Jefferson owned 600 slaves during his lifetime, began raping one of them from the age of 15, and had a shadow family with his girlfriend of 6 children. When he said all men are created equal, he said it in that context, and the people who are not equal are women and the slaves I keep at Monticello. So, Nicky, it's just It’s a history lesson.”
She went on to say, “We are not a racist country, but I am the only person in the history of my father's family to have enjoyed full civil rights, and he is 55 years old. So this is a 600-year-old It's not an event, is it? And we're still fighting to the death to save the soul of this country from the scourge of racism. That's the truth.”
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