Whoopi Goldberg's baffling claim forced many to ask tough questions about race and identity in the US [cnn.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 2/7/228:30 AM

By Brandon Tensley, Image: CNN, CNN US, February 5, 2022

Whoopi Goldberg's claim earlier this week that the Holocaust wasn't about race was baffling and shocking. An apology followed, along with a two-week suspension -- but the controversy has forced deeper questions about the history and evolution of race and identity in the US.

Goldberg made her comments during a conversation about a Tennessee school board that removed Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel series "Maus," about the horrors and trauma of the Holocaust, because of alleged concerns about "rough, objectionable language" and nudity.

Swiftly, various groups pointed out as false the actor and comedian's assertion that the genocide of 6 million Jews had nothing to do with race.

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