(New York) American actress Whoopi Goldberg was suspended for two weeks on Tuesday from the program she co-presents on the American network ABC, after saying the day before that the Holocaust was “not a question of race “.
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She issued an apology on Monday for the statement made as she sought to defend the Holocaust graphic novel Mausrecently banned from the school curriculum by the authorities of a southern county in the United States.
But Kim Godwin, president of ABC, felt that was not enough and decided to suspend the host of the famous talk show The View.
“Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks following her ill-advised and damaging comments,” Ms.me Godwin in a statement posted on a channel’s Twitter account.
On the daily show, the actress lamented that classics like Mausin which cartoonist Art Spiegelman recounts the harrowing memories of his Holocaust survivor father, or “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, be banned from American schools.
Then she added that the Holocaust was “not a question of race, it is a question of inhumanity of men towards men”, remarks which immediately surprised her interlocutors on set.
“I should have said it was related to both,” the Oscar-winning actress apologized on Twitter in 1991 for her role in Ghostconsidered a pioneer in the breakthrough of black actors on the American stage.
“As Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League has said, the Holocaust was the Nazis’ systematic destruction of the Jewish people, whom they viewed as a race lower,” she added.
“I am sorry that my words have caused this suffering”, concluded, presenting her “sincere apologies”, the one who recently took a stand against restrictions on abortion, discrimination against homosexuals or for the distribution of vaccines against -COVID-19 to poor countries.