Proud Member of the Jewish Race
All kinds of people got upset this week when actress, comedienne, and television personality Whoopi Goldberg declared that "the Holocaust was not about race. It's about man's inhumanity to man. That's what it's about". When her co-host said the genocide was "about white supremacy ... and going after Jews and gypsies and Roma," Goldberg responded that it was "two white groups of people," and thus not about race. The media went into a tizzy about this, with many lecturing Whoopi about the Holocaust, which was clearly predicated on Nazi views about the master race and the "sub-human" Jewish race. ABC went so far as to suspend her for two weeks to reflect on her views. (I will not speculate what they would have done had a white person claimed that much of the tensions between police and black people had nothing to do with race…). It certainly is interesting to observe how Whoopi — the former Caryn Elaine Johnson — feels about...