Sunny Hostin Says the ‘People in America Have Been Playing a Long Game’ to ‘Erase’ Black History

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HOSTIN: “I think people in America have been playing a long game. And I -- I often say it's conservatives, but it's a lot of Americans. And I think what they do is they not only erase the bad stuff that may make people feel bad, like slavery, which is responsible for the very foundation of this country. What concerns me even more is that they erase the contributions of people that don't look like them. So they erased the contributions of someone like Bayard Rustin. They erased the the contributions of indigenous people. They have erased from history and teaching our children that the freezer was developed by a black man, that the first open heart surgery was performed by a black man, that the GPS technology that we all use today was developed by a black woman. And the reason that they are erasing those contributions is because then you can other rise someone as less than you are, because you haven't contributed to this society in the way that my culture has. And I think that is so sad because what is supposed to be the very foundation of this country is that we are all equal.”