Following the deadly shooting at Dallas’ Cielo Vista Mall, Ana Navarro provoked an intense debate on a contentious episode of “The View” by asserting that race should not be used as a criterion for evaluating one’s position on white supremacy.
The accused perpetrator of the brutal crime that left eight people dead and several more wounded is 33-year-old Mauricio Garcia. He has been associated with white supremacist ideas, according to unnamed law enforcement officials, who also found ominous “RWDS” patches on his chest and extremist social media posts.
Navarro firmly asserted that a Hispanic individual may still hold white supremacist sentiments, much to the surprise of her colleagues. This point of view is consistent with Jemele Hill and Bree Newsome Bass, two well-known progressives who have acknowledged that people from minority backgrounds can embrace racist beliefs.
“We all have to remember that the head of the Proud Boys. His name is Enrique Tarrio. The Proud Boys is a White Nationalist group. Look, being Hispanic or being Black does not, or being anything does not make you immune from being racist, from being radicalized, from being a White supremacist, from being evil, from being homicidal. And we are seeing it over and over again. There are people who, they don’t see themselves as what they are,” Navarro said.
Sunny Hostin emphasized the claimed threat of “white supremacy” to democracy even though she said the charge was “bizarre” to her.
“But this shooter who happened to be Hispanic and Latino, which is bizarre to me, had a White supremacy moniker on him. So Christopher Wray, these are not my words, so people don’t start with the ‘I’m a race baiter crap.’ Christopher Wray said that the biggest threat to our democracy is White supremacy and domestic terrorism. He testified before Congress,” Hostin said.
“Even with that testimony, you have someone named Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, where there have been so many shootings saying mental health and there’s nothing else that we can do, but we can do this piece. Republicans should be ashamed of themselves,: she added. “They have the power to make the change. Get rid of the AR-15s.”
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Many have criticized Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg, hosts of ABC’s famous talk program, for their inappropriate comments about racial issues. This has generated a lot of discussion about how such delicate subjects should be handled on television.
