Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for saying the Holocaust wasn't about race.
Goldberg, who co-hosts ABC's talk show The View, stated that the Holocaust involved "two groups of white people."
Reuters American actress Whoopi Goldberg apologized after facing backlash for her comments about the Holocaust, in which she said "it wasn't about race."
Goldberg, who co-hosts ABC's talk show The View, stated on Monday that the Holocaust was about the inhumanity of man to man and involved "two groups of white people."
The Oscar-winning actress later apologized, saying: "On today's program, I said that the Holocaust 'is not about race, but about the inhumanity of man to man.' I should have said it's about both."
The discussion on the talk show came after a school board in Tennessee voted to remove the Holocaust-themed graphic novel "Maus" from its curriculum, citing profanity and nudity contained in the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by cartoonist Art Spiegelman.
Goldberg's comments drew criticism from online activists who deemed them dangerous.
"Not Whoopi Goldberg, the Holocaust was about the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people by the Nazis -- whom they considered an inferior race. They dehumanized them and used this racist propaganda to justify the massacre of 6 million Jews. The distortion of the Holocaust is dangerous," said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, on Twitter.
Goldberg added in his apology: "The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never be taken away. I am very sorry for the harm I caused."
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