Watch: 'The View's' Sunny Hostin Marks Veteran's Day by Insulting the Memory of Hundreds of Thousands of Americans
Leave it to “The View” to try to spoil Veterans Day.
ABC’s morning gabfest on Wednesday continued its practice of insulting American intelligence with co-host Sunny Hostin’s revisionist take on American history, dismissively discounting the contributions of hundreds of thousands of white Union soldiers who died defeating the Confederacy in the Civil War and ending slavery in the United States.
Because, by Hostin’s reckoning, the slaves “emancipated themselves.”
Sunny Hostin celebrates Veteran’s Day with racism and some serious revisionist history. She claims Abraham Lincoln didn’t emancipate anyone and the North didn’t free the slaves. She claims the slaves did all “themselves”:
“People often say that Abraham Lincoln emancipated the slaves. The slaves basically emancipated themselves because they wanted freedom and they fought for their freedom.”
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 11, 2026
Oh, really?
According to the National Park Service, approximately 180,000 black men served in the Union Army during the war — about 10 percent of the force — with another 19,000 serving in the Union Navy.
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Those are notable numbers, and not to be ignored, of course. But in what field of human endeavor are the contributions of 90 percent of the participants relegated to an afterthought in favor of 10 percent who also happened to be involved?
And when the subject is fighting a war — where death or debilitating injury is a very real concern — on what grounds does Hostin essentially consider those 90 percent negligible?
Another day that ends in y and a Sunny Hostin racist/race baiting comment. No surprise even on Veterans Day.
— Bobby Law (@bobbylaw4) November 11, 2026
Over the course of four years, about 335,000 Union men died of battlefield wounds or diseases in the field, according to the National Parks Service, with 40,000 of them black. So, the remaining 295,000 were just bit players? Supporting characters in the Great Black Self-Emancipation of the 1860s?
@NickFondacaro I see, Sunny. It just took a couple of hundred years for the slaves to dislike it enough to end it. Maybe they were just trying it out?
— Valentine Ponomaroff (@VPPonomaroff) November 11, 2026
Hostin’s chutzpah is astounding, considering her own ancestry’s ties to the slave trade, but as is almost always the case with “The View,” the ignorance of her audience is even worse.
Just listen to the round of applause when she says, “The slaves basically emancipated themselves, because they wanted freedom, and they fought for their freedom.” Like a blatant misstatement of American history is no more than another sick burn to attack Republicans.
The scary part is all the people in the crowd clap in agreement. Revisionist history.
— Mark Saw (@MarkSaw32494571) November 11, 2026
The reality is, the eventual end of slavery in the United States was foreshadowed in the Constitution itself, when it allowed for the prohibition on slave importation within 20 years of its ratification — a ban that was imposed in 1808, on literally the first day it could be.
After that, it was the work of generations of abolitionists and anti-slavery politicians who worked to limit the spread of the abhorrent practice in the new country — against the efforts of the very Democratic Southern politicians who defended the “peculiar institution.”
And then it was the work of the Union Army and Navy, invading, blockading, and eventually conquering the rebellious states that were willing to see their own people die rather than give up the right to treat another human being like an animal.
But in the view of 21st-century progressives, those contributions count for nothing.
That’s the view that disdains the truth of history in favor of the political trends of the present.
It’s the view that treats the heroes of American history — of human history — as figures of evil because of the color of their skin. (Remember the mob that pulled down a statute of Ulysses S. Grant — the Union general who defeated the South before going on to become president himself.)
And it’s the view Sunny Hostin chose to air on “The View” on a day dedicated to honoring the veterans of her own country.
“Disgrace” isn’t even the word.
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