The View co-host Joy Behar argued that racism in the United States would not come to an end until systems of oppression were broken down and black people run everything in the country.
“When I talk about racism, I talk about a system of racism in this country that affects housing, that affects politics, that affects education. It’s a system of racism,” the 76-year-old host said Tuesday. “And if you are a minority in this country, you are more a victim of racism, so it’s hard to be a racist when you are a victim of racism.”
“They don’t understand the difference between racism and bigotry. Black people can be bigoted like anybody else, but when you’re talking about racism in this country, until black people are running everything,” she said before Whoopi Goldberg cut her off to joke, “We came close!”
Behar added that the systems of racism needed to be destroyed and that the systems were “the concept” of racism.
Behar’s comments were a clarification of a statement she made Monday, saying, “It’s outrageous and stupid to call a black person a racist.”
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