Whoopi Goldberg got into a whole heap of trouble almost a year ago for claiming the Holocaust wasn’t about race. She was even suspended from The View for two weeks because of it.
This past weekend, she was back to making the same comments as she was making a push for her new movie about Emmett Till.
Here’s more from The Times of Israel:
US actress and producer Whoopi Goldberg once again claimed on Saturday that the Holocaust was not connected to race, less than a year after similar comments led to her two-week suspension as host of “The View.”
In an interview with The Sunday Times of London, Goldberg said that the Nazi-orchestrated genocide was “white on white” violence, and not about race.
“Remember who they were killing first. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective. And then they made this decision,” she said.
When the interviewer noted that the Nazis viewed their victims as lesser races, Goldberg replied: “Yes, but that’s the killer, isn’t it?”
“The oppressor is telling you what you are,” she continued.” Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis. Why believe what they’re saying?”
Explaining that Jews are not identifiable as a race, she said: “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 was promoting her new film, “Till,” in which she plays the mother of civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley. The movie tells the true story of Till-Mobley’s quest for justice after her son, 14-year-old Emmett Till, was lynched by white supremacists in Mississippi in 1955.
What she’s essentially saying is that Jews are white and therefore aren’t a race of people, which is ridiculous. She’s really showing her ignorance with these comments, suggesting that race is only skin pigment deep or something.
Race is about far more than skin pigment. It’s about both physical characteristics and a shared ancestry, both of which Jewish people have in abundance. To suggest the Holocaust was just ‘white on white’ violence is preposterous.
I think maybe Whoopi and Kanye have more in common than they’d like to think…