Edited by: TJVNews.com
It would seem that TV talk show host, Whoopi Goldberg has put her proverbial foot back in her proverbial mouth, once again. The New York Post recently reported that Goldberg, a co-host of The View, repeated her past controversial views on the Holocaust in which she claimed the genocide was not “racial” but rather a form of “white-on-white” crime.
During an interview with the Sunday Times of London in which she promoted her new movie “Till” about the murder of Emmett Till at the hands of white racists in Mississippi in 1955, Goldberg said, “My best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race,” according to the Post report.
Goldberg insisted that, “It wasn’t originally” about race, and noted that the Nazis also killed people they believed to be “mentally defective,” the Post reported.
The person conducting the interview, Janice Turner asked Goldberg about the Nazis calling Jews a sub-human race and Goldberg said it was wrong to use their definition, the report indicated.
“The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis. Why believe what they’re saying?” she insisted in the Sunday Times of London interview, as was reported by the Post.
“It doesn’t change the fact that you could not tell a Jew on a street. You could find me. You couldn’t find them. That was the point I was making. But you would have thought that I’d taken a big old stinky dump on the table, butt naked,” Goldberg continued.
Goldberg was briefly suspended from ABC’s The View in February after first airing her opinions on the subject, the Post reported.
Goldberg said on “The View” that: “The Holocaust isn’t about race. No, it’s not about race. It’s about man’s inhumanity to man”.
Her controversial remarks in February of this year were made in the context of a discussion about a Tennessee school district’s decision to ban “Maus,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about a Holocaust survivor.
Goldberg then appeared on “The View” to apologize for her ill-conceived comments and even invited Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on the show to discuss her remarks. Greenblatt apparently enlightened and informed Goldberg to the fact that the Nazis believed that they were indeed a superior race and that Jews were an inferior race and even sub-human.
Goldberg issued an apology for her remarks and said that she stood corrected. She also spoke of her long-time support of the Jewish community. For his part, Greenblatt told CNN’s Don Lemon at the time that he did not consider Goldberg to be anti-Semitic but refused to comment on ABC’s decision to suspend her.
Greenblatt suggested to Lemon that Goldberg spend the next week two weeks interviewing Holocaust survivors, visiting a Holocaust museum and even volunteering for the ADL.
In February, ABC News president Kim Godwin announced her decision to suspend Goldberg for two weeks, telling staffers that such decisions “are never easy, but necessary.”
“Words matter and we must be cognizant of the impact our words have,” Godwin wrote in a memo to employees that dubbed Goldberg’s initial comments “wrong and hurtful.”
The New York Post reported that a well-placed insider told them that Goldberg, 66, felt “humiliated” at being disciplined by ABC execs after she followed their advice to apologize for the ill-conceived comments.
Speaking to the Post, the source added that “while Goldberg is taking the suspension hard and says she wants to leave the show, insiders believe she’s likely just sounding off.”
The source also told the Post that “She (Goldberg) feels ABC executives mishandled this. She followed their playbook. She went on ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ and then apologized again on ‘The View’ the next day. Her ego has been hurt and she’s telling people she’s going to quit. Suspension from ‘The View’ is like getting suspended from Bravo. The bar is very low.”
Goldberg’s co-hosts on “The View” were also not pleased with ABC’s decision to suspend Goldberg.
The Post reported that when speaking to the Daily Beast,, Ana Navarro said, “I love Whoopi Goldberg. I love ‘The View.’” This was an incredibly unfortunate incident. Whoopi is a lifelong ally to the Jewish community. She is not an anti-Semite, period. I am sad. And I have nothing else to say.”
She nevertheless doubled down during an interview with late-night host Stephen Colbert, before later apologizing.
“I get it. Folks are angry. I accept that and I did it to myself. This was my thought process and I will work hard not to think that way again,” she said after the initial imbroglio. “I get it. I’m going to take your word for it and never bring it up again.”
