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after saying this about the holocaust. let s be truthful about it because the holocaust isn t about race. it is about a man s inhumanity to man. ashley: the view cohost apologizing saying in part the jewish people around the world have had my support and that will never waver. i m sorry for the hurt i caused. she will appear with stephen colbert to further explain. listen. i feel being black when you talk about race is a very different thing to me. so i said that i felt that the holocaust wasn t about race. people were very angry and they said, no, no, we are a race. i understand. i understand. i felt differently. ashley: multiple jewish groups condemning those remarks. blm is reportedly tied to shady fund-raising. report showing fund-raising in the name of jail reform with hundreds of thousands of dollars
speaking on a us talk show ms goldberg said that the holocaust the murder of 6 millionjews by the nazis who saw themselves as an aryan master race involved two groups of white people . earlier we spoke to elise preston from cbs who s been following this. whoopi goldberg and her co hosts were discussing how a tennessee school band the pulitzer prize winning world war ii era graphic novel maus over concerns over nudity and profane language. at some point in the discussion, goldberg said the holocaust was not about race. she was immediately pushed back by her co hosts and the controversial remark sparked uproar here in the states. others later, she tweeted, on today s show i said the holocaust is not about race but about man s inhumanity to man i should have
now we re going to go backwards with our hands. teaching unions are sceptical about some of the reforms and warn schools aren t there for childcare. in ten weeks, we ll see whether stretching out the school day really works. hywel griffith, bbc news, abertillery. abc news has suspended the talk show host, whoopi goldberg, for two weeks after she made controversial on air remarks about the holocaust. ms goldberg was part of a panel that was discussing a school board decision to ban maus a pulitzer prize winning novel about the experiences of a holocaust survivor and this is what she said. the holocaust is not about race. no. no, it s not about race. well, they considered jews a different race. i it s not about race, it s not about race. what s it about? it s about man s inhumanity to man. the comedian david baddiell,
seriously. it doesn t really accomplish anything in the real world. professor west, let me play whoopi s original comments, again, and then we will have our conversation. here it is. if you are going to do this, then let s be truthful about it because the holocaust isn t about race. no. no. it s not about race. ethnicity. it s about but it s it s not about race. it s not about race. what is it about? because you it s about man s inhumanity to man. that s what it s about. so, the lesson here is that the holocaust was about race. maybe not in the definition that we think of in modern times but it s definitely about race. remember, they were trying to create a master race. jews were the inferior race. that s what jonathan greenblatt went on the view to say and said that on this show, as well. that it was about race. what did you think of this? well, in the fascist times,