Fox News Guest Claims Slavery Wasn’t Racist

A guest on the conservative Fox News channel has made the absurd claim that slavery was not racist.

The moment occurred on Tuesday when guest Ty Smith, a conservative radio host in Illinois, appeared during the daytime on the network.

“There was slavery going on but itself was not initially a racist thing it never was about race,” said Smith. “It never was a race thing so why are we making it a race thing now?”

In fact, slavery was at it’s core a racist institution and millions of Black people were enslaved in America as a result because of their skin color.

Fox News has for years aired openly racist and bigoted programming, and Smith’s inaccurate history can now be added to the network’s rap sheet.

Watch Ty Smith’s Fox News comment on slavery:

Fox Guest: "There was slavery going on but itself was not initially a racist thing it never was about race… It never was a race thing so why are we making it a race thing now?" pic.twitter.com/9oBLZwQDQa

— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) July 13, 2021