The View co-host claims white children should 'feel bad' about slavery on MLK Day

"It's important that it makes you feel bad."

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"It's important that it makes you feel bad."

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Jarryd Jaeger Vancouver, BC
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During Monday's episode of ABC's The View, the co-hosts' conversation about Martin Luther King Jr Day led to sparring over how learning about slavery and other human rights abuses in American history should make white students feel.

While Ana Navarro argued that nobody should feel bad while being taught about the past simply because of the color of their skin, Sara Haines was adamant in her belief that white children must feel some kind of responsibility for the actions of their forefathers.


 

"Black history and other things, banning books, has been weaponized for political purposes to drive people to the polls based on outrage because my poor little white kid is feeling bad because he's learning about slavery," Navarro began. "That’s ridiculous. Learning about history should not make anybody feel bad."

Haines cut her off to suggest, "it should make you feel bad."

"No," Navarro replied.

Haines went on to argue that "it's important that it makes you feel bad," though she did not explain why.

"I don't think it should make you feel bad," Navarro countered. "I don't think a white child that's had nothing to do with slavery should feel bad about slavery. I think we need to learn history so that we don't repeat the same mistakes about history."

Navarro's response drew applause from the audience.

Riding on that momentum, she proceeded to take aim at nearly every Republican presidential candidate, claiming that none of them had a particularly great track record when it came to properly teaching America's youth about slavery.

Earlier in the MLK Day episode, Sunny Hostin suggested that "people in America have been playing a long game" to "erase" every facet of black history in an attempt to "otherise [people of color] as less than you are because you haven't contributed to this society in the way that my culture has."

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