"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin provided a different perspective when she is in a community where homes fly the American flag.
She does not feel safe, she said on Mondayâs episode of âThe View.â She was reiterating what she said in 2021.
"I said this on this show many, many years ago, because this is my 10th year on the show," Hostin 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 thereâs 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."
The panel had been discussing a viral image of uniformed White nationalists riding the Washington, D.C., Metro as a Black woman sat on the same train with a blank expression. The group held a march in D.C. over the weekend.
"That, for me, was a defining image of modern America for Black Americans," Hostin said. She also condemned the American-flag-style insignias on their caps.
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Guest host Michelle Buteau, who had celebrated 4th of July by eating a cake that said "America, Do Better B----" argued this was an indictment of the nation as a whole.
"When you say itâs the best nation. The best nation for who? Because if we are celebrating 250 years, what are we exactly celebrating, is what I want to know," Buteau said. "So Iâm really glad that picture was taken, because that picture is how we feel walking into many rooms, down the street. That picture is how we feel and nobody will believe us. So look at that picture and understand how it feels."
"The flag belongs to all of us," co-host Alyssa Farrah Griffin replied.
In 2021, Hostin spoke on about Black Americans feeling uncomfortable in neighborhoods with American flags.
Hostin defended MSNBC analyst Mara Gay for her controversial admission that she felt it "disturbing" to see American flags, Trump flags and condemnations of then-President Joe Biden in Long Island, New York.
"When someone of color, a Black woman, is telling you her feelings, people need to listen and not, you know, repudiate it and not say, 'Well, that canât be true,'" Hostin had said at the time.
"When I drive into a neighborhood, and itâs not July 4th, and Iâm not in a predominantly military household neighborhood and there are flags, American flags, everywhere, alongside Trump flags, alongside flags with stars in a circle, I feel threatened,â she added.
"Because the message is very clear," she continued. "Itâs a message of White supremacy. Itâs a message of racism, and itâs a message of their country, not my country. I donât understand why that would receive backlash. People need to listen when I am saying this is how I feel. This is my experience in this country."