Sunny Hostin’s chronic desire to always be a victim of purported racism may have finally caught up with her and may land her in the defendant’s seat in a courtroom. Earlier this week, lawyers representing a group of white Mississippi teenagers sent “The View” co-host a letter threatening to sue her for defamation. The complaint stemmed from her on-air comments suggesting they were involved in a racist murder of their close black friend Nolan Wells, despite there being no evidence of foul play.
Hostin’s chronic grievance also led her to recently claim Hollywood was being racist against her by not turning her poorly written smut books into movies and TV shows.
The threat of a lawsuit stemmed from the July 14 episode of “The View,” where they discussed the Wells case when it was barely a week old.
Despite the lack of publicly available evidence, and local authorities also saying there was no evidence of foul play, Hostin openly suggested that it was more likely than not a racially motivated murder by Wells’ white friends:
SUNNY HOSTIN: Ben Crump has been retained by the family and is conducting an independent investigation, so much so, because it’s happening in Mississippi. There are some racial undertones to this. He was the only black kid on an island full of kids who were white.
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HOSTIN: There were three boys with him that were good friends with him.
JOY BEHAR: What are they saying?
HOSTIN: They turned off their social media accounts. They say that they have cooperated with the police, but they took his — they kept his phone and didn’t give it to his parents.
Of course, she took the word of Crump, the camera-chasing, race-baiting lawyer and friend. She has previously hyped Crump as America’s “black attorney general” on the show.
In their letter demanding Hostin retract and apologize for the aspersions she cast on their clients, the teens’ lawyers called out Hostin’s “brand of ‘journalism’” as “no Sunny Delight: rather, your ‘brand’ is toxic, moronic, and daft.”
“We now understand why, instead of seeking justice, you now work for ‘The View,’ a show that long betrayed any semblance of fairness, reason, or common sense,” they continued.
The allure of constantly being a victim is an enticing one for Hostin, and she’s made it a large part of her public persona. That’s even though she’s descended from a long line of prolific slave owners. Slaves whose descendants she has made no effort to pay reparations to (while demanding the United States pay her).
The virtue she sees in victimhood is what has led her to claim Hollywood was being racist against her and “gatekeeping” her smut books from being turned into features, thus leading her to partner with a production company that uses AI.
“I’ve written a trilogy, and for six years, I’ve tried to get my films or my stories made into series and films. And the gatekeeping in Hollywood around black and brown, creative content is insane,” she whined. “I cannot get New York Times best-selling books onto the screen to tell diverse stories to diverse communities.”
She defended the use of AI, and thus not giving black actors work, by ridiculously suggesting no black actor can find work in Hollywood. “[T]he real people are not getting jobs in Hollywood. Black and brown actors are not getting the jobs,” she lied.
In all likelihood, Hollywood is not interested in adapting her books because they’re terrible. Her books are on The New York Times best-seller list because she has a large, baked-in fan base from being a TV personality, which doesn’t always translate to a successful production.
Hostin’s inability to exhibit honest self-reflection and deep-seated need to be the victim, especially for racial grievances, may lead her to refuse the apology to the white teens. In such a case, discovery should be fun.
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Nicholas C. Fondacaro is the associate editor for the Media Research Center and NewsBusters.
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