Whoopi Goldberg suspended for holocaust comment

The American television channel ABC suspended Whoopi Goldberg the actress and presenter of its program “The View” for two weeks on Tuesday for a comment in which she denied that the Holocaust was racially motivated.
In a statement, ABC News president Kim Godwin announced the suspension immediately and for two weeks for Goldberg’s “wrong and hurtful comments.” On Monday, during a conversation with commentators on her program, Goldberg, who is black, denied that the Holocaust had anything to do with the race of the Jews, considering that it was about white people killing other white people.
“Let’s be true to the truth. The Holocaust was not about race. The Holocaust represents the inhumanity of man, but it’s not about race. It was whites killing whites,” Goldberg said on the show. That same day in the afternoon, the actress apologized on Twitter and indicated that the Holocaust did have a racial motivation because the Nazis considered the Jews a different and inferior race.
The ABC News president acknowledged Goldberg’s apology but said she asked him to take time to “reflect and learn about the impact of her comments.”