Whoopi Goldberg Returns to 'The View' After Two Week Suspension Over Holocaust Comments
justjared.comWhoopi Goldberg is back on The View after a two week suspension. It was announced earlier this month that the 66-year-old host would be taking a break from the long running talk show due to the controversial comments she made about the Holocaust. Click inside to read more… She opened Monday’s show (February 14) by telling viewers, “Yes, I am back.” “We’re going to keep having tough conversations,” she continued. “And in part, because this is what we’ve been hired to do.
And it’s not always pretty, as I said, and it is not always as other people would like to hear. But it is an honor to sit at this table and be able to have these conversations, because they are important.
They are important to us as a nation and to us more so as a human entity.” During a discussion on The View last month, Whoopi claimed that the Holocaust was “not about race.” She later apologized and subsequently clarified her comments during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. “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,” she said in the interview. “And people got very angry and still are angry.
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