‘The View’ hosts challenge Vance on race: ‘Where do Americans of color fit in this vision?’

“The View” hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin on Tuesday pressed Vice President Vance on the Trump administration’s removal of Black history from sites around the country and the dismantling of majority-Black voting districts.

Goldberg asked Vance what Black people did “to this administration that has allowed it to really stigmatize folks of color.”

“You know how hard it is, you have folks of color in your family, so when you see, you know things, the Emmett Till stuff coming down, or them doing all kinds of removal of information of black heroes, how does that sit with you?” Goldberg asked.

Vance asked back, “What are you exactly talking about?” and got groans from the audience.

“They’re taking down the actual history that happened in this country,” Goldberg said. “Slavery happened, all kinds of stuff happened, and it seems that it has been very easy for this administration to remove that, and also to denigrate Black folks who have worked their behinds off to get this American dream.”

Host Sunny Hostin also joined in.

“I’m talking about, Black history getting erased from public spaces. Black voter districts are being dismantled. Black leaders are being sidelined from our ranks,” Hostin said. “Where do Americans of color fit in this vision? Because it doesn’t seem like we fit.”

Vance responded that Goldberg was accusing the administration of being “anti-minority or anti-Black,” and Goldberg immediately pushed back.

“No I didn’t say that!” she said. “I asked — see? Don’t start any stuff with me, man. Don’t get me in trouble.”

The vice president also pushed back, saying “Black history is not erased from public spaces, that is not right.”

“I’m telling you we celebrate Black history, we celebrate all American history in this administration,” he said.

The administration has been accused of whitewashing the history of slavery at Smithsonian Institutions and National Park Service sites as the museums get ready for America’s 250th birthday.

An executive order from Trump last year directed the Department of the Interior to remove exhibits that “inappropriately disparage Americans.”

“The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of ‘WOKE,’” Trump wrote on Truth Social at the time. “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been — Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future.”

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