Whoopie Goldberg had a few words to say after the 2024 Republican presidential candidate, Nikki Haley. During an interview with Fox News on Tuesday a clip of Haley saying the United States has never been racist quickly made rounds on social media.
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“We’re not a racist country … we’ve never been a racist country,” is what she stated during the interview. After her comments, she received some quick responses from folks on social media, but during this morning’s episode on The View, Whoopie Goldberg also addressed her comments. “I don’t understand why it’s still so difficult to just admit racism is and has been part of U.S. History,” Goldberg said. “When you think back, 1849, 1869, they lynched 20, 30 Italians because they were Italian.”
Goldberg continued, “They lynched Black folks. Black folks didn’t climb up into the trees and lynch themselves, you know? People were angry and came and burned them out.” She also told the panel, “Emmett Till did not do that to himself. That was done to him because somebody was angry because he overstepped, in their mind, what he was supposed to do as a Black person.”
Kamala Harris was also on Today’s episode of The View and weighed in on the trending topic.
“There’s no denying that we have, in our history as a nation, racism, and that racism has played a role in the history of our nation. I think we all would agree that while it is part of our past and we see vestiges of it today, we should also be committed collectively to not letting it define the future of our country,” Harris explained.
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“To suggest that enslaved people benefitted from slavery, we will not grow as a country…It is not in our best interests to evolve on the issue of race in America to suggest that the Civil War was prompted by anything other than slavery in America,” Harris said.
