Goldberg took to Twitter with an official apology, before addressing the comments on ‘The View’ Tuesday morning
After backlash from her controversial comments on Monday’s episode of The View, Whoopi Goldberg has officially apologized.
Earlier in the week, the ladies of the table tackled the topic of recently banned books across the country with To Kill a Mockingbird and Maus, a graphic novel that breaks down the atrocities of the Holocaust.
After a Tennessee school district decided to ban Maus, Goldberg said, “Well, this is white people doing it to white people, so y’all gonna fight amongst yourselves.”
She later said, “If you’re going to do this, then let’s be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn’t about race.”
Some of the Goldberg’s co-hosts gently pushed back, including Ana Navarro, who added, “But it’s about white supremacists going after Jews–.”
But Goldberg continued, saying, “But these are two white groups of people! The minute you turn it into race, it goes down this alley. Let’s talk about it for what it is. It’s how people treat each other. It doesn’t matter if you’re Black or white, Jews, it’s each other.”
Her comments received almost immediate backlash online from viewers and even some Jewish leaders. The U.S. Holocaust Museum wrote, “Racism was central to Nazi ideology. Jews were not defined by religion, but by race. Nazi racist beliefs fueled genocide and mass murder. Learn more.”
In a pre-taped interview prior to her releasing an official apology, Goldberg appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. While addressing how people were hurt by her comments, she did not officially apologize just yet, saying, “It upset a lot of people, which was never ever, ever my intention,” she explained.
“I feel, being Black, when we talk about race, it’s a very different thing to me. So I said I thought the Holocaust wasn’t about race. And people got very angry and still are angry. I’m getting a lot of mail from folks and a lot of real anger. But I thought it was a salient discussion because as a Black person I think of race as being something that I can see. So I see you and know what race you are. I thought it was more about man’s inhumanity to man… people said, ‘No, no, we are a race.’ I felt differently. I respect everything everyone is saying to me.”
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