Sunny Hostin claims her kids have ‘less civil rights’ after Supreme Court bans race-based redistricting
“Now I have to tell my children that they have less civil rights than I did when I was born.”
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“Now I have to tell my children that they have less civil rights than I did when I was born.”
The View's Sunny Hostin broke down in emotion earlier this week over the Supreme Court's ruling that race should not play a factor in the drawing of congressional lines.
On the show, Whoopi Goldberg shared footage of ABC News senior political correspondent Rachel Scott explaining the court's decision. "In a ruling that could reshape the future makeup of Congress, the Supreme Court limiting the use of race to determine how congressional districts are drawn, slicing away at the landmark Voting Rights Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 at the height of the Civil Rights movement," Scott said.
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After Goldberg showed the clip and commented, Hostin claimed that it was a major setback to civil rights, getting emotional and then claiming her children would have less rights than she did.
“Justice [Elena] Kagan in her 48-page dissent said that it was the most important piece because it was 'borne of the literal blood of Union soldiers and Civil Rights marchers,'" Hostin said of the Voting Rights Act.
Hostin argued that the Voting Rights Act has been severely weakened, noting that Samuel Alito authored this decision.
"What is most troubling to me and I think you'll—you and I, Whoopi, have discussed this—Alito argued that the vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the south, indicating that racism no longer exists in this country. I can tell you as a black woman that my father was born in 1949.”
“He remembers segregated schools. He remembers segregated water fountains. He remembers that he did not have full civil rights. And he told me when I turned 40 years old that I was the first person in his family to enjoy full civil rights, and he is still alive today, and I am still alive today, and I have been discriminated against. And now I have to tell my children that they have less civil rights than I did when I was born,” she added, nearly breaking into tears.
"That is disgusting, despicable, and I am devastated by this particular Supreme Court decision, even though, Whoopi, we did know this was coming," Hostin added.
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