Joy Behar latest to catch heat for using blackface

NEW YORK — Joy Behar and ABC were silent Thursday after a photo resurfaced of “The View” co-host using makeup to darken her skin for a Halloween costume, the latest in a series of blackface scandals making national headlines.

The 76-year-old didn’t mention the clip on Thursday’s show, one day after an editor for the entertainment website The Wrap tweeted the three-year-old segment of Behar discussing a resurgence of curly hair.

During the 2016 segment, Behar displayed a 1970s-era photo of herself at a Halloween party. She says the hair was her own and that she had dressed as a “beautiful African woman.”

Co-host Raven-Symone asked whether she had on tanning lotion. Behar, a partisan liberal, said she wore makeup “that was a little bit darker than my skin.”

Critics were quick to point out that NBC cut ties with host Megyn Kelly last year after she created a furor by suggesting that it was OK for white people to wear blackface on Halloween.

This week, Virginia’s Democrat governor and attorney general were criticized for their use of blackface. Florida Secretary of State Michael Ertel resigned last month after a photo surfaced of him wearing blackface and dressing as a “Hurricane Katrina victim.”

Other celebrities called out for using blackface include Julianne Hough, who in 2012 dressed as characters from Netflix’s “Orange Is the New Black,” and “Real Housewives of New York” star LuAnn De Lesseps, who dressed as Diana Ross for Halloween.

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