BREAKING: The View's Sunny Hostin shreds the racist UFC smear of Michelle Obama in a scathing takedown.
She nailed exactly how we’re feeling…
“I do want to address the derogatory slur made about the former First Lady Michelle Obama,” Hostin said on the show. “Because I think it's important to address and we won't dignify what was said by repeating it. Yeah, but you should look it up.”
Over the weekend, Trump hosted a drunken mob of MAGA fanatics and MMA fighters on the White House lawn. One of the fighters, Josh Hokit, brought the disgraceful proceedings crashing to absolute rock bottom when he shouted “Michelle Obama is a man” into the microphone.
“And I think the reason that it's important is because for a long time and the roots are in slavery,” continued Hostin. “Black women have been slurred and made to feel that they were unattractive, made to feel that they were masculine, made to feel that they didn't have the femininity that a white woman would have.”
This is the key point. Calling Black women “men” has long been a favored insult of white supremacists. Their aim is to degrade and humiliate women of color while asserting that only white women can truly be “women.” It’s a line of attack ripped straight out of a Klan brochure.
Note that this particular defamation is reserved for Mrs. Obama. Republicans despise Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Jill Biden but you’ll never see them attacking their femininity. That indignity is hurled solely at Black women.
“And so there's this intersectionality between racism and sexism that was on full display at the White House,” explained Hostin. “The crowd laughed at the statement and the President of the United States smirked and never addressed what was said. That is beneath the dignity of the office of the President of the United States and it's beneath the dignity of the American people.”
While we agree in principle, unfortunately nothing is “beneath the office of the presidency” while Donald Trump remains in the Oval Office. He’s a racist, rapist, pedophile. As long as he’s in power, America will continue scraping the bottom of the barrel.
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