Whoopi Goldberg is not going to be showing on The View within the upcoming weeks after making controversial remarks in regards to the Holocaust.
In a press release obtained by E! Information on Feb. 1, ABC president Kim Godwin stated she is suspending Goldberg for 2 weeks, efficient instantly, attributable to “her unsuitable and hurtful feedback.”
Godwin continued, “Whereas Whoopi has apologized, I’ve requested her to take time to mirror and study in regards to the influence of her feedback. All the ABC Information group stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, associates, household and communities.”
A supply tells E! Information what Goldberg’s suspension “is a shock to a lot of the workers.”
“There are quite a lot of textual content messages being despatched round proper now. Tomorrow can be fascinating,” the insider famous. “Discussions have already begun about how this can be addressed on the present tomorrow.”
Information of the suspension comes only a day after Goldberg stated that the Holocaust was “not about race” throughout a dialogue a few Tennessee college board’s current determination to take away Maus, a graphic novel in regards to the atrocity, from an eighth-grade language arts curriculum. On the time, the 66-year-old actress claimed that the Holocaust was “about man’s inhumanity to man.”
Supply: Eonline
