Former blackface-wearing comic Joy Behar mentioned Sen. Tim Scott and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas don’t get what being Black means in America.

The left-wing co-host of “The View” talked about the 2 males’s ignorance about being Black in responding to an interview Mr. Scott gave with NBC’s Tom Llamas the day he introduced his candidacy for the president, through which Scott mentioned “what people really want is an optimistic positive conservative.”

Ms. Behar, and never for the primary time, dismissed Mr. Scott as ignorant, calling him “one of these guys who, you know, he’s like Clarence Thomas.”

He is a “Black Republican who believes in pulling yourself by your bootstraps, rather than, to me, understanding the systemic racism that African Americans face in this country, and other minorities. He doesn’t get it. Neither does Clarence. And that’s why they’re Republicans,” Ms. Behar mentioned, in accordance with an account on the Blaze.

The imputation of ignorance on two Black males received her applause and laughter from the present’s dwell viewers.

Ms. Behar is a White girl whose expertise of blackness in America included dressing up in blackface for Halloween.

In a 2016 episode of “The View,” Ms. Behar herself confirmed the picture onscreen, in accordance with an account on the fact-checking web site Snopes that rated the declare “True.”

“It was a Halloween party. I went as a beautiful African woman,” she mentioned.

Co-host Raven-Symone, who's Black, appeared greatly surprised and requested Ms. Behar, “did you have tanning lotion on, Joy?”

Ms. Behar’s reply was that she “put on a light bit of makeup that was a little darker than my skin. But that’s my actual hair though.”

“The View” co-host has beforehand known as Mr. Scott ignorant on race issues.

Two years in the past, when Mr. Scott gave the Republican response to President Biden’s tackle to Congress, Ms. Behar went ballistic over his declare that America isn't a racist nation.

“A lot of them,” she mentioned, referring to Black Republicans, “don’t seem to understand the difference between a racist country and systemic racism.”

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