I regret my comments and I stand corrected,' she said. 'I said the Holocaust wasn't about race and was instead about man's inhumanity to man. It is indeed about race because Hitler and the Nazis considered Jews to be the inferior race. The information I got was really helpful.
I feel a responsibility. My words upset so many people which was never my intention. I tweeted about it last night but I kind of want you to hear it from me directly. On Tuesday, Whoopi returned to The View where she spent the first few minutes apologizing, before cutting to her guest - Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, - to help 'continue the conversation'. Many - including ABC staffers - called for her to be fired over the remarks and asked why she was allowed to keep her job when others have been fired for arguably less.ĪBC has not issued a comment on the scandal, nor has its parent company Disney. The 66-year-old host on Monday sparked international outrage and offense by claiming the Holocaust was not about race because Jews and Nazis are 'two groups of white people.' She then issued a Twitter apology, but later doubled down on her comments on Stephen Colbert's late-night CBS show. Whoopi Goldberg has been allowed to keep her job on The View despite growing demands to be fired for claiming that the Holocaust 'was not about race' and let off with an on-air apology despite growing calls for her to be fired. ABC has not yet commented on Whoopi's remarks she is due to appear on The View again at 11am Tuesdayīy Jennifer Smith, Chief Reporter For Dailymail.Com.One senior ABC News source told staff are 'livid' and that the network has an 'anti-Semitic blind spot'.They say she should be fired like Sharon Osborne was from CBS or like Roseanne Barr was from ABC.Whoopi posted an apology on Twitter claiming she stood 'corrected' - but many are refusing to accept it.She then doubled down on the claim on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.On Monday, she claimed the Holocaust was not 'about race' because Nazis and Jews were both white.She returned to the show on Tuesday where she repeated her apology.Whoopi Goldberg has not been disciplined by ABC News over her Holocaust claims.That’s what AK19 is all about.Whoopi gets a pass: The View host returns to the air to apologize for claiming Holocaust wasn't racist and interviews Anti-Defamation League CEO about why she was 'wrong' but gets to keep her job despite growing demands to #FireWhoopi It gives independent artists a real shot to create something special, because we have a direct line of communication with our fans, and with platforms that can help us get discovered by new fans. “We’ve really come into our own over the last couple of years,” Pfeiffer says. “Hard work and dedication definitely pays off, especially when you have access to the same audience as the major artists do with streaming and YouTube. In fact, the Rainimator video for Blacklite District’s “Cold As Ice” recently crossed 50 million global YouTube views after initially being released in August 2017.Ĭall it a little unconventional, but the Internet continues to open new channels through which one can discover music, and it’s certainly worked for Blacklite District so far, says Pfeiffer. If that seems like an odd thing to point out, know that it’s not for Blacklite District many of its songs have been set to clips from the popular video game, the most popular of which created by the YouTube channel Rainimator, which has over 1 million subscribers. 6, 2018) - Pfeiffer says the song will also receive its own Minecraft-inspired music video. In addition to getting a push at mainstream rock radio - the act has made Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Songs chart twice, most recently with “Cold As Ice” (No.
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