That time Joy Behar explained why she dressed as a ‘beautiful African woman’
By Yaron Steinbuch
February 7, 2019 | 8:04am
Jon Levine
✔@LevineJonathan
https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1093272835076837377
Joy Behar admitted during a taping of The View in 2016 to dressing as a “beautiful African women” at a Halloween party when she was 29 which involved makeup “that was a little bit darker than my skin”
The show even ran an image of the old photo
An old video clip has emerged of “The View” co-host Joy Behar trying to explain how — and why — she dressed up as a “beautiful African woman” for Halloween decades ago.
The Wrap media editor Jon Levine shared the 2016 clip, in which the ultra-liberal Behar is seen discussing a New York Times piece about the resurgence of curly hair, Fox News reported.
In the show, Behar showed her colleagues and the studio audience a photograph of herself with curly hair when she was 29.
Co-host Raven-Symoné asks, “Joy, are you black?”
“I was so cute,” Behar responded.
“Joy … are you my auntie, Joy?” Raven-Symoné quipped.
Behar, now 76, explained that the picture was snapped at a Halloween party where she dressed up as a “beautiful African woman” and stressed that the hair was actually haira.
“Did you have tanning lotion on, Joy?” Raven-Symoné asked.
Behar answered that she wore makeup “that was a little bit darker than my skin.”
The clip resurfaced as Virginia Democrats are under fire for their use of blackface decades ago.
On Friday, Gov. Ralph Northam apologized after the emergence of a photograph on his 1984 medical school yearbook page that featured a man in blackface and another in KKK garb.
But during a press conference the next day, he reversed course and claimed he wasn’t in that photo — but did admit to wearing blackface when dressing up as Michael Jackson for a costume contest.
Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring, who had called on Northam to step down, released a statement Wednesday that he also wore blackface in college.
By Yaron Steinbuch
February 7, 2019 | 8:04am
Jon Levine
✔@LevineJonathan
https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1093272835076837377
Joy Behar admitted during a taping of The View in 2016 to dressing as a “beautiful African women” at a Halloween party when she was 29 which involved makeup “that was a little bit darker than my skin”
The show even ran an image of the old photo
An old video clip has emerged of “The View” co-host Joy Behar trying to explain how — and why — she dressed up as a “beautiful African woman” for Halloween decades ago.
The Wrap media editor Jon Levine shared the 2016 clip, in which the ultra-liberal Behar is seen discussing a New York Times piece about the resurgence of curly hair, Fox News reported.
In the show, Behar showed her colleagues and the studio audience a photograph of herself with curly hair when she was 29.
Co-host Raven-Symoné asks, “Joy, are you black?”
“I was so cute,” Behar responded.
“Joy … are you my auntie, Joy?” Raven-Symoné quipped.
Behar, now 76, explained that the picture was snapped at a Halloween party where she dressed up as a “beautiful African woman” and stressed that the hair was actually haira.
“Did you have tanning lotion on, Joy?” Raven-Symoné asked.
Behar answered that she wore makeup “that was a little bit darker than my skin.”
The clip resurfaced as Virginia Democrats are under fire for their use of blackface decades ago.
On Friday, Gov. Ralph Northam apologized after the emergence of a photograph on his 1984 medical school yearbook page that featured a man in blackface and another in KKK garb.
But during a press conference the next day, he reversed course and claimed he wasn’t in that photo — but did admit to wearing blackface when dressing up as Michael Jackson for a costume contest.
Democratic Attorney General Mark Herring, who had called on Northam to step down, released a statement Wednesday that he also wore blackface in college.
