Whoopi Goldberg Addresses ‘The View’ Holocaust Comments In Conversation With Colbert: ‘I Think Of Race As Being Something That I Can See’
etcanada.comAmid controversy over her recent comments about race and the Holocaust, Whoopi Goldberg attempted to clarify her intentions Monday night on Global’s “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert.
Earlier that day, on “The View”, Goldberg had said, “The Holocaust isn’t about race…. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man,” adding that it was about “two groups of white people.” READ MORE: Whoopi Goldberg Apologizes After Saying Holocaust ‘Isn’t About Race’ Facing significant blowback, she took to Twitter in the evening to apologize: In her conversation with Colbert, which was recorded before her apology on Twitter, but aired later at night, Goldberg attempted to explain the thinking behind her original comments on “The View”. “It upset a lot of people, which was never ever, ever, ever my intention,” she told Colbert. “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.
So I see you and I know what race you are, and the discussion was about how I felt about that. “People were very angry, and they said, ‘No, no, we are a race,’ and I understand.
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