New York – Joy Behar waded into the day’s hot-button issues on “The View” but no mention was made during Friday’s live show about her own use of blackface many years ago.
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The 76-year-old led discussions of Jeff Bezos, Cardi B and Frank Robinson although neither she nor her four other panelists brought up a 1970s-era photo of Behar at a Halloween party with darkened skin dressed as a “beautiful African woman.” It was the second day that she ignored the issue. Neither ABC nor Behar has commented.
The use of blackface has roiled Virginia and Florida governments this week. NBC last year cut ties with host Megyn Kelly after she created a furor by suggesting that it was OK for white people to wear blackface on Halloween.
Typical double standard- nothing surprising here. Intellectual frauds.
Blackface goes all the way back to around 1830,as a way to mock and jeer the black people.
It is not a Purim costume.Rather it is a vehicle to foment hate,and keep racism alive,and should be unacceptable just as we would not want other people mocking our Jewish dress.
It was wrong for Al Jolsen and Eddie Cantor to have performed in blackface.