In the cringe-worthy segment below, the hosts were talking about the “comeback” of naturally curly hair. Behar took the opportunity to share a photo and story of herself when she was younger sporting curly hair...but that wasn’t all:
[Photo of Behar appears on screen]
PAULA FARIS: Is that you Joy?
RAVEN-SYMONE: Are you black Joy?
[laughter]
RAVEN-SYMONE: She looks black! Joy, Joy.
JOY BEHAR: I was so cute!
RAVEN-SYMONE: Are you my aunty, Joy? She looks black!
BEHAR: That was me.
FARIS: What year was this?
BEHAR: I was 29 years old. It was a Halloween party. I went as a beautiful African woman.
RAVEN-SYMONE: Oh yeah…
BEHAR: But that’s my hair! That’s my hair!
…
RAVEN-SYMONE: Did you have tanning lotion on, Joy?
BEHAR: I think I was wearing makeup that was a little bit darker than my skin. That’s my actual hair though!
RAVEN-SYMONE: I love it, though!
Still not as awful as when fellow View co-host Whoopi Goldberg’s then-boyfriend Ted Danson wore blackface with “huge white lips” in a roast of the actress in 1993, that featured many iterations of the “n-word.”
Perhaps most interesting is that none of the hosts have chosen to address any of the Virginia Democrat scandals on their show this week.