Sunny Hostin suggests Jill Biden has 'racial blind spots' after inviting runner-up Iowa to White House

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin suggested First Lady Jill Biden might have a "racial blind spot" on Thursday because Biden said the Iowa women's basketball team should be invited in addition to LSU, the women's national champions. 

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin suggested First Lady Jill Biden might have "racial blind spots" Thursday because she wanted to invite both the national champion LSU and runner-up Iowa women's basketball teams to the White House. 

Co-host Whoopi Goldberg seemed to defend the First Lady and said that she might not have known that it is only the winner that gets to go to the White House. Biden's remarks touched off a controversy last week when she suggested her husband should invite Iowa as well, with critics saying it was tone-deaf and even racially insensitive, as LSU's star player Angel Reese is Black and Iowa's leading scorer Caitlin Clark is White. 

"Maybe she doesn’t know, as her husband knows, that only the winning team gets to go," Goldberg said. "Knowing her as I do, I don’t think it’s that she wanted the White kids to come and not the Black kids. I think it was more, I'm a teacher and I'm trying to make nice with everybody. I just want to point out that sometimes people say stuff or do stuff and people rake them over the coals. But unnecessarily, because they did not take the time out to say well, is this an offense or is this somebody who is ignorant?"

"I would think that it’s ignorance. It could be somewhat considered unconscious bias. I mean everyone doesn't get a trophy," Hostin responded. "I don’t know that she knew it or not but it was clearly a blind spot. She's got a Black vice president to lean on, she spent eight years with the Obamas. I think at this point, there still could