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Independent journalist Megyn Kelly tore into ABC’s “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg over her recent controversial comments about white people.
During a segment on “The Megyn Kelly Show,” Kelly and her guests discussed Goldberg’s suggestion that police brutality will not change until white people experience it. Kelly called Goldberg’s statement “dumb” in reference to the death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis.
“The media coverage of this case has gone away awfully quickly, there is nothing close to what we saw after George Floyd, even though the beating was even more brutal. … You’d think there’d be outrage that would be ongoing, but no, because it doesn’t have the very sexy race angle that the Left loves to play out and put on loop,” Kelly said. “But that hasn’t stopped people like Whoopi Goldberg … from making a typically inane comment about this case and our country.”
Kelly added: “Seems things don’t seem to make sense to people unless it’s somebody they can feel, or they can recognize. Do we need to see white people also get beaten before anybody will do anything? I’m not suggesting that, so don’t write us and tell me what a — you know, what a racist I am…It’s not that you are a racist, it’s that you’re dumb. That’s your problem.”
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Goldberg made headlines over her comments about the tragic death of Tyre Nichols in Memphis.
“Peaceful protests continued nationwide after Friday’s release of police footage showing officers savagely beating Tyre Nichols in Memphis. So far, five cops have been charged with second-degree murder and kidnapping,” Goldberg said to begin the show.
“I asked this question way too many times at this table, but you know, when will the brutality finally lead to some police reform from the ground up? Because clearly, it doesn’t matter if it’s a white policeman or a black policeman. It is the problem with the policing itself. It seems things don’t make sense to people unless it’s somebody they can feel or they can recognize,” she said.
“Do we need to see white people also get beat before anybody will do anything?” the host said before quickly putting her comments into context.
“I’m not suggesting that. So don’t write to us and tell me what a racist I am. I’m just asking, is that what people have to see in order to wake up and realize this affects us all?” she said.
Cohost Sunny Hosting chimed in and said she has not watched the video.
“I haven’t been able to watch the video because I’ve seen so many. As a mother of a black son who is 6’2″ and 20 years old, my worst nightmare is what is probably on that video,” she said.
Whoopi Goldberg's grotesque response to national tragedy:
"Do we need to see white people also get beaten before anybody will do anything?" pic.twitter.com/bdXcGHcqTd
— Brian Kilmeade (@kilmeade) January 31, 2023
It is not the first time in the past two months that Goldberg has been accused of bigotry.
Goldberg has had to apologize again for the comments she made about the Holocaust. As she was promoting her new movie “Till,” about a young black child who was viciously murdered by a gang of white men in 1955, she was asked by a reporter about the comments she made on the show.
Earlier this year, Goldberg was suspended from “The View” for claiming the Holocaust was not about race. She apologized for the comments but in a new interview with the U.K. paper The Sunday Times, it appears her apology may not have been sincere.
“Remember who they were killing first. They were not killing racial; they were killing physical. They were killing people they considered to be mentally defective. And then they made this decision,” the actress said.
Journalist Janice Turner explained to Goldberg, whose real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson, that there were race laws the Nazis created against Jews and said that “Nazis saw Jews as a race.”
“Yes, but that’s the killer, isn’t it? The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They’re Nazis. Why believe what they’re saying?” she said.
“It doesn’t change the fact that you could not tell a Jew on a street,” she said. “You could find me. You couldn’t find them.”
“But you would have thought that I’d taken a big old stinky dump on the table, butt naked,” she said, in reference to her comments that got her suspended from the show.
“My best friend said, ‘Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we’re probably not a race,’” she said.
