Whoopie Goldberg learns about race

 

I have a feeling the "learning" about the Holocaust and what Hitler was up to from 1933 to 1945 she's claiming she's done in the last 24 hours -- something she somehow did not learn about for all 70 previous years of her worthless life -- will not stick, and at some point not far down the road, she'll be making noises about racism only being something that can happen to dark-skinned people....

Whoopi described the Holocaust as "white people doing it to white people. So, this is y'all go fight amongst yourselves."

Wow. The Holocaust is just white people shit, white people Doing Some Things to each other. Got nothing to do with me. Not interested!

Well, you know, the great majority of white people whose ancestors did not emigrate to America until after the Civil War, or were far too poor to own slaves, or who were Northerners, would also like to explore this "ain't got nothin' to do with me" philosophy you're sketching out here, Whoopi.

But that is a really dismissive and nasty take on the Holocaust. And therefore it's 100% honest -- this is white people shit. Whoopi don't care. She's got no Grievance Stakes in this.

And furthermore, she insist that there are no racial Grievance Stakes to be had here, because "it's not about race." Racial grievance is something only her race gets to wallow in.

This is all a nasty political game about deciding about which races deserve racial sympathy, and which -- such as, here, the Jews -- do not.

Or maybe she just is this ignorant of any history or experience outside her own. In which case, I guess I have to ask why I grew up having to constantly learn and relearn about black civil rights icons, when Whoopi could obviously give no cares about anything not directly affecting her.

Do you know how many times I had to read about Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, or W.E.B. DuBois?

Or you know, I had to read The Invisible Man thinking "Oh fun, it's the invisible man," but no, psych, it's a racial metaphor, see?!

Not fun at all. And I'm supposed to be "learning" about the politics of the radical black community. In ninth grade.

And meanwhile, Whoopi doesn't even know that the Nazis had some interesting ideas about race.

Must be nice.