ABC's Sunny Hostin went on national television and endorsed a plan to inflict economic destruction on Southern states as political punishment — and the rest of The View's panel nodded along like it was the most reasonable thing they'd heard all week. The proposal? Convince Black college athletes to boycott scholarships at 13 state schools in the South over redistricting. Because nothing says "civil rights" like punishing an entire region of the country for how they vote.
They said the quiet part out loud. Again.
Hostin, an ABC News co-host who apparently fancies herself a civil rights strategist now, declared that "economic damage and economic harm has longtime been a very effective tool in the civil rights movement." There it is. She's not even pretending this is about helping anyone. It's about hurting people. Specifically, hurting people in red states because Democrats lost elections there.
The plan, reportedly pushed by Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and his allies, would use college athletes as pawns in a political scheme targeting Southern schools. Hostin framed it as a noble continuation of the civil rights movement. In reality, it's elite coastal liberals trying to economically kneecap states full of working-class Americans who committed the unforgivable sin of voting Republican.
Alyssa Farah Griffin, The View's resident "faux conservative" who hasn't met a liberal talking point she won't eventually agree with, called the plan "a very good idea" and predicted "the economy would crumble." She said that like it was a selling point. The economy would crumble — and she's smiling about it.
Even moderator Whoopi Goldberg managed a tepid pushback, asking "is it putting a little too much burden on the students?" But Joy Behar quickly steamrolled any hesitation, declaring that "The Vietnam War was basically halted by teenagers." So now boycotting Southern colleges is on par with ending Vietnam. Sure, Joy. Totally proportional response to a redistricting disagreement.
As NewsBusters associate editor Nicholas Fondacaro reported on May 20, Hostin cited the example of Ole Miss running back Kylin Hill, who previously pressured the school into changing its Confederate flag imagery through protest. That was one athlete at one school making a personal stand. What Hostin is endorsing now is a coordinated economic attack on an entire region of the country.
This is what the left thinks of you if you live below the Mason-Dixon line. You're not fellow Americans with different political views. You're targets. Your economy isn't something that supports families and communities — it's leverage to be destroyed until you start voting correctly.
They don't want to persuade the South. They want to punish it. And they'll use Black college athletes as political weapons to do it, all while congratulating themselves on being the party of compassion.
Sunny Hostin sits in a New York City studio and cheers for economic devastation in states she's probably never spent a weekend in. That's not civil rights activism. That's contempt dressed up in a blazer. And every single person in those 13 targeted states should remember exactly who wants to destroy their livelihoods — and why.
