Leave it to “The View” to try to spoil Veterans Day.
ABC’s morning gabfest on Wednesday continued its practice of insulting American intelligence with co-host Sunny Hostin’s revisionist take on American history, dismissively discounting the contributions of hundreds of thousands of white Union soldiers who died defeating the Confederacy in the Civil War and ending slavery in the United States.
Because, by Hostin’s reckoning, the slaves “emancipated themselves.”
Oh, really?
According to the National Park Service, approximately 180,000 black men served in the Union Army during the war — about 10 percent of the force — with another 19,000 serving in the Union Navy.
Those are notable numbers, and not to be ignored, of course. But in what field of human endeavor are the contributions of 90 percent of the participants relegated to an afterthought in favor of 10 percent who also happened to be involved?
