On “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Whoopi Goldberg said, “I don’t want to make a fake apology.”Youtube Robyn Autry, Wesleyan University Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of ABC’s “The View,” set off a firestorm when she insisted on Jan. 31, 2022 that the Holocaust was “not about race.” Hands outstretched, she went on to describe the genocide as a conflict between “two white groups of people.” As someone who writes and teaches about racial identity, I was struck by the firmness of Goldberg’s initial claim, her clumsy retraction and apologies, and the heated public reactions. Her apology tour on he…
