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Sunny Hostin Claims Hollywood Is Racist Against Her, Won’t Adapt Her Smut Books
Newsbusters ^ | 09/14/2026 | Nicholas Fondacaro

Posted on 09/14/2026 2:38:35 PM PDT by DFG

Over their hiatus, it was announced that The View co-host Sunny Hostin has sold her likeness and the rights to smut books to be produced into a series of movies by a film company that utilizes A.I. On Friday’s episode, the ABC News co-host defended her actions by claiming Hollywood was “gatekeeping” her because they were racist, and suggested that black and brown people were not being hired for projects. However, her co-hosts pointed out the hypocrisy that by using fake people in her adaptations, she was keeping those same black and brown people from getting work.

“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.”

That’s right Sunny, Hollywood is not adapting your books because they’re discriminating against you, the multimillionaire TV personality. It couldn’t possibly be because your smut books are bad and your sales are buoyed by your TV stardom.

“With A.I. that cuts out the gatekeeping. You get to make your film,” Hostin boasted. “It's a way, I think, to get black and brown stories told. There are a lot of hidden figures out there.”

Hostin referencing herself as one of the “hidden figures out there” seemed to be her lumping herself in with Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, the black female NASA scientists featured in the movie Hidden Figures, which suggested whites didn’t want them known to history.

Hostin’s race baiting got worse amid push back from her fellow co-hosts. Her argument shifted to asserting that black and brown people where just not being hired for jobs in Hollywood:

HOSTIN: And those stories are not being told.

BEHAR: But if those people are, in fact, robots, how does that help the real -

HOSTIN: They're not robots. They're A.I. images.

BEHAR: - black community? The real people are not working!

HOSTIN: Because the stories are not being told, Joy. Because the real people are not getting jobs in Hollywood. Black and brown actors are not getting the jobs.

BEHAR: Well, this makes sure they never will.

HOSITN: They’re not getting the jobs.

Token Republican co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin was okay with Hostin selling her likeness, but was concerned she was “closing the doors to those roles being played by black and brown actors.” “That would be great if the studios would not gatekeep and allow the stories to be told,” Hostin shot back.

Co-host Joy Behar was the most fervent in her opposition to Hostin’s A.I. gambit. A longtime member of the Screen Actors Guild, Behar was deeply concerned about Hostin contributing to actors losing their jobs. Hostin insisted all of Hollywood was against her and black people:

HOSTIN: Well, I don't need the project, I think that diverse stories need to be told, like the story-

BEHAR: I get that Sunny, but we've said that already, but I'm saying that those same people that you're worried about are now out of work.

HOSTIN: Yes, but I'm not the person putting them out of work, because the studios just won't make these projects, Joy.

BEHAR: Well, force them to do it rather than have a robot replace black people in movies.

Of course, Hostin’s argument wasn’t factual. The movie she seemed to referenced was proof of that. The View had promoted the movie, as well as the Black Panther Marvel movies. Black actor Michael B. Jordan is beloved and has had leading roles in the Creed series and Sinners. Comedian Jordan Peele had also become a critically acclaimed director and writer in his own right with films such as Get Out, Us, and Nope.

Director Taylor Perry had even created his own movie studio for projects by black creators. It’s unclear if Hostin pitched it to them, but if she did and they passed, it blows up her cries of racism.

Hostin likes to be a perpetual victim, it’s virtuous.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: gatekeeping; sunnyhostin; theview

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1 posted on 09/14/2026 2:38:35 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG
Sunny Hostin has sold her likeness and the rights to smut books

Stay in your lane, newscasters. The Babylon Bee will handle the satire.

2 posted on 09/14/2026 2:44:43 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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To: DFG

People can’t stand you because you smell funny, Sunny.

Like decomposing soul.


3 posted on 09/14/2026 2:45:06 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: DFG

Just applying Occam’s razor.


4 posted on 09/14/2026 2:45:37 PM PDT by JZelle
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To: DFG

I doubt very seriously that “black and brown people” are unable to find “smut” work.


5 posted on 09/14/2026 2:47:56 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: DFG

oh my gosh… i have to say joy has a point. hostin just wants to save money on production.


6 posted on 09/14/2026 2:50:24 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: DFG

Whenever these boo-hoo people don’t get their way, they scream racism.


7 posted on 09/14/2026 2:57:29 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Texas Eagle

When they have no valid argument it’s always the R word.....always.


8 posted on 09/14/2026 2:58:46 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America....so great even the people that hate it won't leave!)
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To: JZelle

Or Schroeder’s cat.


9 posted on 09/14/2026 2:58:53 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: DFG

She writes smut books too?


10 posted on 09/14/2026 3:04:24 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: DFG

Are there not successful black Hollywood producers and directors such as Spike Lee that could produce and direct her work?


11 posted on 09/14/2026 3:04:45 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: DFG
Sunny is Puerto Rican. She really doesn't look Negroid.

12 posted on 09/14/2026 3:05:44 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: DFG

Extreme fatigue has set in due to these grifting complainers. I don’t care about her “problems.” She has no talent, though she’s paid a hefty sum anyway. She should be thankful she is making a living off entertainment instead of serving food in a cafeteria line.


13 posted on 09/14/2026 3:06:01 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourk)
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To: DFG

Didnt her family own slaves


14 posted on 09/14/2026 3:07:05 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: DFG

Black and brown actors are not getting the jobs.


They’re sure getting jobs in commercials and historical dramas. The only roles they don’t seem to be getting is as criminals/burglars and the like.


15 posted on 09/14/2026 3:07:30 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: SmokingJoe

>> She writes smut books too?

Yeah, not very good ones though.

At least, that’s what my friends tell me. LOL


16 posted on 09/14/2026 3:16:09 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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