Before The View dove into interviews with Rustin star Colman Domingo and New York City Councilman (and Exonerated Five member) Yusef Salaam, the ladies kicked off Monday morning’s (Jan. 15) episode with a Hot Topics segment, where Ana Navarro and Sara Haines disagreed over whether white kids should “feel bad” about slavery.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Day episode opened with a conversation discussing the fact that only 12 states in the U.S. have a Black history mandate in K-12 schools, while 18 states have passed laws “severely limiting” the curriculum.

“They not only erase the ‘bad stuff’ that may make people ‘feel bad’ like slavery, which is responsible for the very foundation of this country,” Sunny Hostin jumped in, noting that she’s even more concerned about the contributions of “people that don’t look like them” getting erased as well.

She continued, “They erase the contributions of someone like Bayard Rustin. They erase the contributions of Indigenous people. They have erased from history and teaching our children that the freezer was developed by a Black man, that the first open-heart surgery was performed by a Black man, that the GPS technology that we all use today was developed by a Black woman.”

According to the co-host, lawmakers have been erasing these contributions as a way to “otherize” other cultures.

“I think that is so sad because what is supposed to be the very foundation of this country is that we are all equal,” she said. “But what happens is when you’ve had privilege for so long, equality feels like oppression.”

However, Navarro had a different take, telling the panel that she thinks there’s “more to it” than Hostin’s argument.

“Black History and other things, banning books, has been weaponized for political purposes — to drive people to the polls based on outrage because ‘my poor little white kid is feeling bad because he’s learning about slavery.’ That’s ridiculous,” she said. “Learning about history should not make anybody feel bad.”

Haines then countered, “Well, it should make you feel bad. But it’s important that it makes you feel bad.”

Despite the interruption, Navarro continued as she explained why learning Black history should not make people feel sorry.

“I don’t think it should make you feel bad,” she argued. “I don’t think a white child that had nothing to do with slavery should feel bad about slavery. I think we need to learn history so we don’t repeat the same mistakes about history.”

In the end, Haines let out an agreeing, “Yeah.”

The View airs on weekdays at 11/10c on ABC.