For the second time this year, the actress Whoopi Goldberg has once again aroused controversy for some comments related to the HolocaustY again he had to go out to apologise.
“that was never my intention give the impression that I was asserting myself in offensive comments, especially after speaking and listening to people like rabbis and old and new friends,” the actress explained in a statement published by the magazine Variety.
This apology comes after his words in an interview with Sunday times in which he tried to justify what he said in January when he stated that the The Holocaust “had nothing to do with race“.
In her most recent comments, the actress said what she was trying to say was that there was no way to tell if someone was Jewish just by looking at them. And this explanation has caused (again) a lot of criticism.
Monday the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum posted on Twitter a passage from a letter that Adolf Hitler wrote in 1919, before being appointed Chancellor of Germany, in which he explicitly singled out Jews as “alien race unable and unwilling to sacrifice its racial distinction”.
Although the publication did not mention the actress of Ghostformer American Jewish Committee chairman David Harris took advantage of the message to tell Goldberg to stop claiming the Holocaust had nothing to do with race: “Everything had to do with race”he pointed.
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In her apology, the actress said she was “still learning” and that she believed the Holocaust had to do with race.
“In these times of growing anti-SemitismI want to be very clear when I say that I have always been with the Jewish people and always will be. My support for them has not wavered and never will,” she added. The actress and host was suspended for two weeks from the program The View last February for a comment denying there was a racist component to the Holocaust.
And he claimed that the Holocaust “was about white people killing other white people” and that it had nothing to do with the race of Jews. When the rest of the commentators contradicted the actress’s claims, stating that the Nazis viewed Jews and other social groups as inferior races, she insisted on her position.
“Let’s stick to the truth. The Holocaust had nothing to do with race. The Holocaust represents man’s inhumanity, but it has nothing to do with race. It was white people killing white people,” Goldberg said at the time.
In the afternoon of the same day, the actress apologized on Twitter and insisted that the Holocaust was racially motivated because the Nazis considered Jews and other social groups to be a different and inferior race.
Later, during an appearance on The Late Show with Stefano Colbert she justified that being a black woman she viewed race as something “you can see”.
Although ABC acknowledged Goldberg’s apology at the time, they asked her to take two weeks off cameras to “reflect and know the impact of their comments.
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