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Joy Behar goes off on US being 'named after a White man' during Gulf of America debate

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"The View " co-host Joy Behar went on a rant about where America got its name on Thursday .

Behar : "Why was it named after a White man if it was settled by indigenous people?" She said the country was named after an Italian White man, Amerigo Vespucci , a White European.

Co-host Sara Haines said the renaming of bodies of water is relatively common.