Whoopi Goldberg Returns To ‘The View’ After Two-Week Suspension: “We’re Going To Keep Having Tough Conversations”
deadline.comWhoopi Goldberg returned to The View on Monday after a two-week suspension, opening the show by telling viewers, “Yes, I am back.”“We’re going to keep having tough conversations,” Goldberg said.Goldberg was suspended as co-host of the show over comments she made about the Holocaust.
Goldberg had apologized, but ABC News President Kim Godwin called her comments “wrong and hurtful.”In a discussion on The View, Goldberg had claimed that the Holocaust was “not about race.” The Anti Defamation League condemned the remarks, and she later issued a written apology.But she also appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and told the host that “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. And people got very angry and still are angry. I’m getting a lot of mail from folks and a lot of real anger.
But I thought it was a salient discussion because as a Black person, I think of race as being something that I can see. So I see you and know what race you are.” She said that she didn’t want to upset people, but also did not want to “fake apologize.”More to come.New and returning series on broadcast, cable and streamingSeries that made it or didn’t make it in 2020-21Broadcast networks’ fall lineups and schedules
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