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NEW YORK (77WABC) – Whoopi Goldberg issued an apology on The View Tuesday after saying race had nothing to do with the Holocaust on Monday’s episode of ABC’s The View.
She said, “Yesterday on our show I misspoke. I tweeted about it last night but I kind of want you to hear it from me directly. I feel a responsibility. My words upset so many people which was never my intention. I understand why. The information I got was really helpful. I said the Holocaust wasn’t about race and was instead about man’s inhumanity to man. It is indeed about race because Hitler and the Nazis considered Jews to be the inferior race. ” Below is her apology.
Whoopi Goldberg (stage name) begins The View today by apologizing for her comments about the Holocaust. "I understand why now, and for that, I am deeply, deeply grateful because the information I got was really helpful and helped me understand some different things." pic.twitter.com/QvlW0CWnk2
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) February 1, 2022
“Words matter and mine are no exception. I regret my comments and I stand corrected,” she added.
Below are Goldberg’s Monday’s comments which sparked the initial outrage.
Sparks fly as The View panel confronts Whoopi after she says "the Holocaust isn't about race. No. It's not about race."
"Well, the considered Jews a different race," Joy Behar says."But it's about white supremacy. It's about going after Jews and Gypsies," Ana Navarro adds. pic.twitter.com/GZwZSi2qXi
— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 31, 2022
After apologizing Tuesday, Goldberg then introduced Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, who spoke addressed anti-Semitism and why it is still a threat to the world.
While Goldberg apologized Tuesday morning, on Monday night on the Stephen Colbert show she seemed to double down on her initial comments. “I understand,” she said. “I felt differently, ” she told Colbert. “I respect everything everyone is saying to me and I don’t want to fake apologize…I’m very upset that people misunderstood what I was saying.”
Her appearance on Colbert is below.
Whoopi Goldberg says she’s “very upset” that Holocaust remark about race was “misunderstood.”
“People were very angry and they said ‘no, no, we are a race,’ and I understand … I felt differently, I respect everything everyone is saying to me and I don’t want to fake apologize.” pic.twitter.com/5K0MQntk5w
— The Recount (@therecount) February 1, 2022
Many, including ABC staffers, are now calling for Goldberg to be fired. Among those who fumed over Goldberg being allowed to stay on the show was Piers Morgan.
“Sharon Osbourne was fired from The Talk for defending me against a fake charge of racism. Whoopi Goldberg said on The View yesterday that the Holocaust ‘wasn’t about race’, which for Jewish people is about as racist a comment as anyone could make.”
