(Jewish Group) Whoopi Goldberg returns to 'The View' after suspension over Holocaust comments...
Whoopi Goldberg returns to The View after suspension over Holocaust comments, saying, I listened
Whoopi Goldberg returned to her hosting chair on The View Monday after a two-week suspension for her much-criticized comments about the Holocaust, pledging to keep having tough conversations.
I listened to everything everybody had to say, and I was very grateful, Goldberg told her viewers in a brief address at the top of the talk show as her co-hosts told her they missed her.
It is an honor to sit at this table and be able to have these conversations, because they are important, Goldberg said, without offering another direct apology or mentioning the Holocaust or Jews at all.
Conversations, she said, are important to us as a nation, and to us more so as a human entity.
Goldbergs suspension had followed her Jan. 31 remarks on the program that the Holocaust is not about race, but rather about mans inhumanity to man. Many groups, including the Anti-Defamation League, objected, saying that Hitler saw his planned extermination of the Jews as a racial project. Goldberg apologized, but further comments she made on the subject including on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert continued to add fuel to the fire, leading to ABC News President Kim Godwin announcing her suspension the following day to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments.
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