WATCH: The View host says Martin Luther King Jr. was a ‘radical’ who wanted ‘reparations’
Julia Johnson
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According to The View’s Sunny Hostin, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a “radical” who believed in the redistribution of wealth and reparations for black people.
“People misinterpret his legacy,” she explained during the show’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day episode. “They misinterpret what he was asking for.”
“We always hear this, ‘I want my little girls and boys to be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin.’ That’s all you ever hear anyone saying, but he was a radical. He was deeply invested in economic equality, and he was deeply invested in making sure that black people got reparations and that there was wealth distribution — redistribution,” Hostin added.
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She further claimed, “People are real comfortable lately with diversity, they’re real comfortable with inclusion, but when you ask them about giving us some reparations because this country was built on the backs of black people for free, no one wants to talk about that.”
“I’m really disappointed that it’s 60 years later, and the disparity between a white household and a black household is going to take 200 years for economic equality.”
Whoopi Goldberg chimed in, telling her co-hosts that the banking system needs to be changed because it “was not set up for black people.”
She then compared the struggle of black people to a game of whack-a-mole, claiming that every time they get close to achieving certain things, they are pushed back down.
Reprising her earlier claims, Hostin said, “The history was erased in many respects.”
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“He made it very clear he rejected that notion, actually. He said, ‘It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself up by his own bootstraps, but it’s cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself up by his own bootstraps,'” she said.
King would have been 94 years old on Sunday.