b/c there was no race problem w/the comment.

if she'd said Zendaya looked like she smelled of collard greens or callaloo or watermelon...then there'd be a need for checking.

they said Zendaya looked like a stereotypical white hippie.

'patchouli and weed' = white hippie, not Black anything.

the 'patchouli' is the key there. that's the tip-off that the joke is about hippies. and Giuliana's response to Zendaya backs this up - she said the comment addressed Zendaya's 'bohemian chic' look and wasn't about race.