Whoopi Goldberg suspended from ‘The View’ for 2 weeks over Holocaust comments

As TheGrio previously reported, Goldberg recieved almost immediate backlash on Monday following her controversial comments. During a segment on recently banned books in schools across the country, the host of the popular daytime show, when referencing the Holocaust, shared, “Well, this is white people doing it to white people, so y’all gonna fight amongst yourselves.” Later, she added, “If you’re going to do this, then let’s be truthful about it because the Holocaust isn’t about race.”

While some of her co-hosts, including Ana Navarro, attempted to push back, she responded, “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.”

The fallout only continued during a pre-taped interview she conducted for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, in which she doubled down on the statements. She shared on the show, “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.”

Monday evening, Goldberg took to Twitter with an official apology. She wrote, “On today’s show, I said the Holocaust ‘is not about race but about man’s inhumanity to man. I should have said it is about both. As Jonathan Greenblatt of 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.’ I stand corrected.”