Whoopi Goldberg Addresses 'The View' Holocaust Comments: 'I Stand Corrected'
justjared.comWhoopi Goldberg is addressing the controversy surrounding her recent comments on The View.
On Monday’s episode of the talk show, Whoopi claimed that the Holocaust was “not about race” and was instead an example of “man’s inhumanity to man.” She later apologized for her comments in a statement posted to Twitter.
During an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert – which was filmed before her apology on Twitter, but aired later that night – Whoopi clarified what she meant by her remarks. Click inside to read more… “It upset a lot of people, which was never ever, ever, ever my intention,” she told Stephen. “I thought we were having a discussion… because I feel, being Black, when we talk about race it’s a very different thing to me, so I said that I felt that the Holocaust wasn’t about race.
And people got very, very, very angry, and still are angry. I’m getting all of the mail from folks, and very real anger, because people feel very differently.” She continued, “But I thought it was a salient discussion because, as a Black person, I think of race as being something that I can see.
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