Sunny Hostin Challenges Alyssa Farah Griffin’s Claim Most Americans Aren’t Racist in Tense Debate On The View

The View co-host Sunny Hostin argued that a “significant portion” of Americans are racist while claiming her son was verbally accosted with a racial slur on a Florida beach.

Former Trump aide Alyssa Farah Griffin started the conversation by noting she agrees with President Joe Biden’s views on race, but noted that the “vast majority of people” in the country are not racist.

“I just don’t believe that, in my day-to-day life that the people that you’re encountering harbor racist viewpoints,” Farah Griffin added before Hostin interjected, “If you looked like me, you would believe differently.”

Hostin argued that Farah Griffin should not dismiss her “lived experience” and then revealed that her son was called the N-word “several times” while walking down a beach in Florida.

“There is a significant portion, that are racist and you can’t dismiss my lived experience,” Hostin shot back. “When I say that there are a lot of racists in this country. I just experienced my son walking down the beach being called the N-word several times in Florida. So you can’t say I believe that the vast majority of people aren’t racist.”

Farah Griffin responded by claiming she never intended to minimize Hostin’s experience but noted that it’s difficult to argue that a majority of the 300 million-plus people in the U.S. are racist.

“That’s fair. There are 300 million people in this country. I would never minimize your lived experience any more than I would as an Arab woman,” She replied.

Watch the clip above via ABC News.