“It was never my intention to appear as if I was doubling down on hurtful comments,” the 67-year-old explained.
“My best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race,’” Goldberg had told theIn her new statement, she attempted to clarify that she was simply referencing her past hurtful remarks, not “doubling down” on them.
“I’m still learning a lot and believe me, I heard everything everyone said to me. I believe that the Holocaust was about race, and I am still as sorry now as I was then that I upset, hurt and angered people. My sincere apologies again, especially to everyone who thought this was a fresh rehash of the subject. I promise it was not.
Goldberg was shortly suspended from “The View” in February when she first shared her views on the Holocaust.to promote her upcoming movie “Till,” in which she plays Alma Carthan, the mother of civil rights activist Mamie Till-Mobley, whose 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, was tortured and lynched in 1955. While on the topic of race, Goldberg suggested there is a debate about whether Jews are a race or a religious group when the interviewer reminded her that “Nazis saw Jews as a race.
Goldberg made similar comments at the beginning of the year on an episode of “The View” and then repeated them that night on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
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