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How White Is That?

Posted Jul 6th 2006 1:02PM by TMZ Staff

Where my white women at, you ask? This morning, they were hosting "The View."

Not content to be blandly milquetoast in just their on-camera banter, the co-hosts of the ABC show added the very Caucasian Susan Lucci to the seat formerly occupied by the fired (and African-American) Star Jones.

Whereas Jones would talk about her sex life with husband Al Reynolds with gusto often and unabashedly, Lucci spoke of how her character on "All My Children" would have love scenes "in a coma," sometimes with a green tube up her nose.

Even the audience got into the act, with panning shots of the assembled crowd revealing a decidedly homogeneous group of "View"-ers.

Miami Heat star Alonzo Mourning did his best to provide some minority representation, and pop star Brandy returns tomorrow for her second guest-hosting audition-stint.

Tags: Susan Lucci, SusanLucci, The View, TheView

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1. Wow, is there a little anger in this article? As a white women, I am slightly offended and I think the animosity was a little unneccesary and honeslty kind of racist.
By the way, I think you should know, as a jounalist, that "at" at the end of a sentence is not grammatically correct.

Posted at 1:14PM on Jul 6th 2006 by Amanda

2. why bring race into this? this was a little uncalled for.

Posted at 1:18PM on Jul 6th 2006 by Lou

3. You failed to mention that yesterday, The View had a black co-host, Brandy. It must be a slow news day, because this article is very pointless.

Posted at 1:20PM on Jul 6th 2006 by jen

4. Who cares if it is all white women hosting? I guess I don't understand the relevence of this article.
Now there is a status quo on minorities for the talk show circuit?

Posted at 1:25PM on Jul 6th 2006 by kate

5. I think Barbara should consider always having a guest host for that spot. it's refreshing to see a different face. She shouldn't have to be obligated to fill the post with a women as the same race as Star. Friends did very well in the ratings and they never had a black costar, until the end.

Posted at 1:25PM on Jul 6th 2006 by gwen

6. There does lack a little color there.

why not a beautiful latina Barbara?

Posted at 1:30PM on Jul 6th 2006 by Luvs

7. I agree that a little color is missing there.

Why not a beautiful latina, Barbara?

Posted at 1:31PM on Jul 6th 2006 by Luvs

8. I would think that ONLY filling the spot with a black woman would be considered racist, not filling it with a white woman. Can that spot only be filled by a black woman JUST to show diversity? Bologna.

Posted at 1:34PM on Jul 6th 2006 by Michelle

9. Um! Who cares if there is another white person on the show? Obviously a black woman couldnt do the job. Im guessing that whom ever wrote this article is black & unprofessional. Im sure the show had the highest ratings ever since star's been gone. Thank goodness!

Posted at 1:39PM on Jul 6th 2006 by tiffany

10. first they had greek..she was removed
the asian was alos removed

Posted at 1:39PM on Jul 6th 2006 by hmm

11. I agree with Amandas post. Reading the article made me uncomfortable and slightly offended. I failed to miss the point of it.

Posted at 1:41PM on Jul 6th 2006 by Krissy

12. Susan Lucci was the best thing to happen on The VView since Veira left.

Friends was a success because it was a direct copy of the successful Black show "Living Single"!

Posted at 1:54PM on Jul 6th 2006 by Female, Black and a Chicagoan

13. Who cares about the view anymore? Its only a matter of time before they take it off
the air. Too much bad publicity. Who wants to watch an old woman, who thinks she has to remain in front of the camera ALL THE TIME, another woman who is menopusal and very disrespectful, and a republician maniac. Not to mention a loud, very annoying person they will be bringing on. The direction this show is going in spells CANCELLED. So who really cares??????? I say serves BW and ABC exces right.

Posted at 2:01PM on Jul 6th 2006 by Kelli

14. It's not so much that there need's to be an African American in Star's spot, I think that the view needs to have people from different backgrounds to provide different perspectives on the issues they discuss on the show.
I think the sentiments in the article are based largely on the issue of race but I also think those sentiments reflect on a need for variation and difference in background of the women co-hosting the show. That element is why The View has been so popular in the past.
However, where the show messed up was thinking Rosie O'Donnell was a move in the right direction. Putting her on to gain a larger homosexual following is just as bad as putting a person of color in a co-host's seat to attract minority viewer's.
So, really, is it the fact that only "white women" are co-hosting The View that's so bad, or is it the show's shameless attempts to widen their audience through moves like these?

Posted at 2:08PM on Jul 6th 2006 by tia

15. The point is for a show titled, "The View", you might expect diverse viewpoints from diverse folks. Does it have to be an African American viewpoint? No. Let's face it, the current ensemble is as vanilla Breyers. They could certainly put a token person of color in there to appease the natives.

Posted at 2:11PM on Jul 6th 2006 by kRAYOLA

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