[IsraelTimes] Network tells co-host to take a two-week break ’to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments’; move comes despite apologies for saying Nazi genocide ’not about race’.
"Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments," ABC News president Kim Godwin said in a statement.
"While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments," Godwin said. "The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities."
Hours before the announcement, the Page Six entertainment news site quoted ABC sources as saying that there was mounting anger at ABC and at parent company Disney that Goldberg has not been disciplined.
"ABC staffers and Disney Network execs are saying Whoopi went way too far. And board members are not happy with her apology and want a fuller retraction. The word is that Whoopi is in ’deep shit,’" the source told Page Six, adding that several of her co-hosts were among those saying Goldberg was "too controversial now for the show."
Goldberg apologized on Monday for saying the Holocaust was not about race, comments that sparked a firestorm of controversy, but not before appearing to double down on the statement in another interview.
On Monday morning, she made the initial comments on "The View" program.
"The Holocaust isn’t about race," but rather about "man’s inhumanity to man," she said. The statement drew condemnations from Jewish groups including the Auschwitz Memorial and the Anti-Defamation League.
Later Monday, she made similar comments on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" while discussing the controversy.
"I thought it was a salient discussion because as a black person I think of race as something that I can see, so I see you and I know what race you are and the discussion was about how I felt about that," Goldberg said about her earlier statements.
"People were very angry and they said, ’No, no, we are a race,’ and I understand," Goldberg said.
Colbert asked Goldberg, "Have you come to understand that the Nazis saw it as race? Because asking the Nazis, they would say, ’Yes, it’s a racial issue.’"
She responded: "The Nazis lied. It wasn’t. They had issues with ethnicity, not with race, because most of the Nazis were white people and most of the people they were attacking were white people. So to me, I’m thinking, ’How can you say it’s about race if you are fighting each other?’"
Goldberg has also come under fire for her stage name during the controversy. Born Caryn Elaine Johnson, Goldberg has no Jewish ancestry, but adopted her stage name to be deliberately Jewish-sounding, in part because she has said she personally identifies with Judaism. She told a London audience in 2016, "I just know I am Jewish.
The vicious mendacity of the unthinkingly conformist Progressive. She’s a Baby Boomer, so doesn’t have the excuse of ignorance — this was all over the news the first thirty years of her life.
Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended from her role as co-host of ABC’s popular "The View" talk show after an uproar over her comments in which she said the Holocaust was "not about race," the network said Tuesday night."Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments," ABC News president Kim Godwin said in a statement.
"While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments," Godwin said. "The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities."
Hours before the announcement, the Page Six entertainment news site quoted ABC sources as saying that there was mounting anger at ABC and at parent company Disney that Goldberg has not been disciplined.
"ABC staffers and Disney Network execs are saying Whoopi went way too far. And board members are not happy with her apology and want a fuller retraction. The word is that Whoopi is in ’deep shit,’" the source told Page Six, adding that several of her co-hosts were among those saying Goldberg was "too controversial now for the show."
Goldberg apologized on Monday for saying the Holocaust was not about race, comments that sparked a firestorm of controversy, but not before appearing to double down on the statement in another interview.
On Monday morning, she made the initial comments on "The View" program.
"The Holocaust isn’t about race," but rather about "man’s inhumanity to man," she said. The statement drew condemnations from Jewish groups including the Auschwitz Memorial and the Anti-Defamation League.
Later Monday, she made similar comments on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" while discussing the controversy.
"I thought it was a salient discussion because as a black person I think of race as something that I can see, so I see you and I know what race you are and the discussion was about how I felt about that," Goldberg said about her earlier statements.
"People were very angry and they said, ’No, no, we are a race,’ and I understand," Goldberg said.
Colbert asked Goldberg, "Have you come to understand that the Nazis saw it as race? Because asking the Nazis, they would say, ’Yes, it’s a racial issue.’"
She responded: "The Nazis lied. It wasn’t. They had issues with ethnicity, not with race, because most of the Nazis were white people and most of the people they were attacking were white people. So to me, I’m thinking, ’How can you say it’s about race if you are fighting each other?’"
Goldberg has also come under fire for her stage name during the controversy. Born Caryn Elaine Johnson, Goldberg has no Jewish ancestry, but adopted her stage name to be deliberately Jewish-sounding, in part because she has said she personally identifies with Judaism. She told a London audience in 2016, "I just know I am Jewish.
No, my dear Ms Johnson, you are not. A fact for which I — as a real Jew with my mother’s (and most of her family’s) real Holocaust experience to show for it — am profoundly grateful. Bad enough that I have to share species and s3x with you without being more closely related.
I practice nothing. I don’t go to temple, but I do remember the holidays." I remember Kwanzaa without practicing it, which does not make me African-American.
In 2016, she designed a Hanukkah sweater for Lord & Taylor.That woman is a walking example of cultural appropriation.