Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of the Disney-owned ABC daytime talk show The View, apologized on Monday in response to the widespread backlash that ensued over her comments about the Holocaust in which she said the extermination of millions of Jews by the Nazis “wasn’t about race.”
During Monday’s show of The View, Goldberg said the Holocaust was not specifically about race but about man’s inhumanity to others.
“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’s a problem. It doesn’t matter if you’re black or white, because black, white, Jews … everybody eats each other,” she said.
After significant backlash, Goldberg apologized in a statement released on Twitter.
On today’s show, I said the Holocaust “is not about race, but about man’s inhumanity to man.“ I…
