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Sunny Hostin told viewers on The View that she actually walked her son into her local police department and warned officers not to “harass” him while he trained in what she described as an “all-white” neighborhood — a story she framed as a necessary precaution born of fear for Black boys’ safety. The remark came during a segment about the Netflix documentary The Perfect Neighbor, and Hostin said she had told police “he belongs to me — this is my son. Do not harass him. Do not stop him.”
That anecdote set off an avalanche of ridicule across social media and conservative outlets, and it’s easy to see why: the sight of a prominent ABC host presuming ill intent from an entire neighborhood and preemptively policing the police with theatrical symbolism is striking. Americans who actually live in mixed or affluent neighborhoods know that respect and common sense, not grandstanding, protect children — and many observers noted Hostin never claimed a single prior incident had occurred to justify her stunt.
Make no mistake: the underlying fear of real racial injustice is understandable and should be taken seriously, but converting private caution into public accusations without evidence fuels grievance politics and corrodes trust between neighbors and law enforcement. The View gave Hostin a platform to turn a private parenting choice into a partisan morality play, and conservative commentators rightly pointed out how these theatrical warnings are weaponized into perpetual suspicion rather than constructive solutions.
If Hostin truly worried about her son’s safety, sensible options exist that don’t turn the town into a cast of villains — talk to neighbors, join local community watch efforts, or move to a community that fits your family’s needs. Instead, she chose a performance that treats entire neighborhoods and police departments as irredeemably biased until proven otherwise, and that kind of blanket presumption only deepens the very divisions she claims to lament.
Patriotic Americans want safe streets and fair treatment for every child, regardless of race, but we reject the politics of victimhood that demand special warnings and public shaming in place of accountability, common sense, and respect for due process. Conservatives will stand with parents who protect their kids, and we’ll also defend the institutions that keep communities safe from being smeared for the sake of cable-TV outrage.
