Whoopi Goldberg on Monday night time advised Stephen Colbert she 'obtained' why her feedback concerning the Holocaust had so angered and upset folks - whereas trying to elucidate her logic and justify her remarks.
Goldberg, 66, sparked anger earlier on Monday throughout a dialogue about race.
'Let's be truthful about it,' she mentioned.
'The Holocaust is not about race. It is not about race. It is not about race. It is not about race. It is about man's inhumanity to man. That is what it is about.
Co-hosts Ana Navarro, Pleasure Behar and Sarah Haines all argued together with her, however Goldberg was unrepentant.
'These are two white teams of individuals. You might be lacking the purpose. The minute you flip it into race, it goes down this alley. Let's discuss it for what it's, it is how folks deal with one another,' Goldberg mentioned.
She advised Colbert that she was dismayed that she had offended so many individuals.
'It upset lots of people, which was by no means ever ever my intention,' Goldberg mentioned.
She then tried to justify her remarks.
'I really feel, being black, after we discuss race it is a very completely different factor to me.
'So I mentioned I believed the Holocaust wasn't about race.
'And it made folks very offended. I am getting lots of mail from of us and lots of anger.
'However I believed it was a salient dialogue as a result of as a black particular person I consider race as being one thing that I can see.'
Goldberg mentioned that, if the Ku Klux Klan had been approaching, she would run however a Jewish good friend could be secure, and insisted the Nazis weren't racist, however somewhat evil.
'Once you discuss being a racist, you possibly can't name this racism,' she mentioned.
'This was evil.
'This wasn't based mostly on pores and skin. You could not inform who was Jewish.
'You needed to delve deeply and determine it out.
'My level is: they needed to do the work.
'If the Klan is coming down the road and I am standing with a Jewish good friend: I will run.
'But when my good friend decides to not run, they will get handed by most instances.
'As a result of you possibly can't inform who's Jewish. You do not know.'
The Manhattan-born actor and comic, who has hosted The View since 2007, mentioned that she obtained a powerful response to her remarks.
'Individuals had been very offended, and mentioned no, we're a race.
'And I perceive.
'I felt in another way. I respect all the pieces everyone seems to be saying to me.
'I do not wish to faux apologize.
'I'm very upset that folks misunderstood what I used to be saying.
'And due to it they're saying I'm anti-Semitic, and denying the Holocaust, and all these different issues that might by no means happen to me to do. I believed we had been having a dialogue about race, which everyone seems to be having.'
Goldberg, who's well-known for her provocative and controversial feedback, admitted to Colbert she 'did lots of hurt to myself' together with her Holocaust remarks.
'Individuals determined I used to be a sure manner. And I am not,' she insisted.
'And I am torn up folks see me that manner.
'I did it to myself.
'That is my thought course of and I'll work exhausting to not assume that manner once more.'
Goldberg's remarks had been condemned by Cease Antisemitism, a non-profit group, which tweeted: 'Newsflash @WhoopiGoldberg. 6 million of us had been gassed, starved and massacred as a result of we had been deemed an inferior race by the Nazis. How dare you decrease our trauma and struggling!'
The Auschwitz Memorial in Poland tweeted a hyperlink to a historical past of the Holocaust.
'@WhoopiGoldberg, Holocaust - the destruction of European Jews.
'A seven-chapter on-line course concerning the historical past of the Holocaust. Hyperlinks to all chapters beneath within the tweet.'
Her co-host, Navarro, identified to her how the Nazis persecuted Jews and 'Gypsies', focusing on them as white supremacists.
Haines tried to level out that Nazis did not contemplate Jews 'white' but it surely didn't resonate with Goldberg.
There was rapid backlash on Twitter.
'WTF? That is insane. The extermination of 6 million Jews wasn't about race??? Will any rock stars or renegade royals now boycott Whoopi Goldberg and/or ABC for this harmful misinformation?' tweeted Piers Morgan.
Meghan McCain, a former View co-host who left the present final 12 months after feeling marginalized for her Conservative views, tweeted: 'Antisemitism is a most cancers and a poison that's more and more excused in our tradition and tv - and permeates areas that ought to shock us all.'
Michael Rappaport filmed a video of himself railing towards Goldberg.
'Whoopi Goldberg, love you huge fan - you went in your present and mentioned the Holocaust wasn't about race.
'Sure it f*****g was! It was all and solely about race! It was about 'kill the Jews. They are not white, they're Jewish.
'That is like saying slavery wasn't about race. It is advisable apologize. It is advisable clarify your self. Not good, not cool.'
