Whoopi Goldberg apologized again for claiming the Holocaust was “not about race' after she repeated the remarks that resulted in her suspension from 'The View' earlier this year.
cohost of"The View," was forced to apologize again for comments in which she claimed the Holocaust was"not about race."
Whoopi Goldberg, cohost of "The View," was forced to apologize again for comments in which she claimed the Holocaust was "not about race." Goldberg added,"In this time of rising antisemitism, I want to be very clear when I say that I always stood with the Jewish people and always will. My support for them has not wavered and never will.","Till." In the movie, she plays Alma Carthan, the mother of civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley, whose 14-year-old son Emmett Till was tortured and lynched in 1955.
"Yes, but that’s the killer, isn’t it?" Goldberg responded."The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis. Why believe what they’re saying? It wasn’t originally [about race]. Remember who they were killing first. They were not killing racial, they were killing physical. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective. And then they made this decision.
ABC News President Kim Godwin announced the following night Goldberg's two-week suspension"for her wrong and hurtful comments."
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