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Whoopi Goldberg issues 'sincere apologies' for saying the 'Holocaust is not about race'

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"I should have said it is about both."As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, 'The Holocaust was about the Nazi's systematic annihilation of the Jewish people - who they deemed to be an inferior race'."She continued: "I stand corrected."The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver."I'm sorry for the hurt I have caused."WrItten with my sincerest apologies, Whoopi Goldberg."Whoopi appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert late yesterday evening and said she was very upset that she had offended many.She said: "It upset a lot of people, which was never ever ever my intention."The actress then tried to justify her choice of words earlier that day on The View.Whoopi added: "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 it made people very angry.

I'm getting a lot of mail from folks and a lot of 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."Whoopi said that, if the Ku Klux Klan were approaching, she would run but a Jewish friend would be safe.She also insisted that the Nazi's were not racist but just evil.Whoopi admitted later in the show to Stephen that she had done "a lot of harm" to herself with her Holocaust remarks.Critics are now demanding that Whoopi be fired from the show.This comes as other chat show hosts such as Sharon Osbourne have previously been fired from similar shows over their controversial remarks..

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