The View co-host Sunny Hostin doubles down on American flags making her feel unsafe

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin stood by her previous comments on Monday, saying that she feels “unsafe” in neighborhoods with many American flags. While appearing on the “Behind the Table” podcast, Hostin told the show’s executive producer, Brian Teta, “I stand by that.”“I was going to say what’s interesting is that this is not a new conversation in the Black community,” Hostin said.She then recounted a time she visited White friends at a beach house in North Carolina and felt “nervous” after spotting a Confederate flag.“I’m in the South,” Hostin recalled.“I’ve got these two kids with me.

I look the way that I look, and I’m walking past a Confederate flag with a group of dudes in a pickup truck on the beach.And I scurried back to the house, and I said to the hosts, ‘Do you know that there’s a Confederate flag out there? You know, it didn’t feel great.’ And they had seen the flag for years, but it didn’t have the same effect on them as it would have on me.”During “The View” last week, while discussing celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary, Hostin recalled a previous occasion in 2021 when she said on the show that she feels uncomfortable in neighborhoods with numerous American flags.“I said this on this show many, many years ago, because this is my tenth year on the show,” she said.

“I said there are times when I walk into a community, and I see American flags all over the community and I suddenly feel unsafe because there’s a section of this country that has co-opted the American flag, and they equate being an American or an American flag with White supremacy, and that should never be the symbol of White supremacy, but they have weaponized it.”On Monday’s podcast, she emphasized that she does not have a problem with the American flag on its own but rather when she sees a community with “flags everywhere.”“Unfortunately, at this point in our country, the American flag has been co-...