View Gets Fiery After Sunny Hostin Asks Author If He’s ‘Pawn of the Right’ [Video]

Things turned a bit tense on The View when Sunny Hostin asked guest Coleman Hughes about being a “pawn of the right,” only to immediately have a co-host push back on her.

Hughes joined The View on Wednesday to promote his book, The End of Race Politics, in which he argues for a “colorblind approach to politics and culture.” Hughes also hosts a podcast called Conversations and is an analyst for CNN.

Hostin first accused Hughes of having a premise that is “fundamentally flawed,” referencing multiple quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.

Hostin said:

I think the premise is fundamentally flawed. You claim that color-blindness was the goal of the civil rights movement based upon Dr. King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech, you know, Content of color versus then color of skin. Bernice, Dr. King’s daughter, points out that four years after giving that speech actually, Dr. King also said this, “A society that has done something special …