Whoopi
Goldberg
criticized
GOP
presidential
candidate
Nikki
Haley
on
Wednesday
over
her
claim
that
the
United
States
“has
never
been
a
racist
country.”
Whoopi
Goldberg
didn’t
mince
words
on
The
View
Wednesday
(Jan.
17),
in
blasting
Republican
presidential
candidate
Nikki
Haley
over
her
claim
that
America
has
“never
been
a
racist
country.”
Haley
made
that
statement
during
an
interview
with
Fox
News
the
evening
before.
After
playing
the
clip,
the
co-host
began,
“I
don’t
understand
why
it’s
so
hard
to
admit
that
racism
has
been
and
is
a
part
of
U.S.
history.”
“When
you
think
back,
1849,
1869,
they
lynched
20,
30
Italians
because
they
were
Italian.
They
lynched
Black
folks.
Black
folks
didn’t
climb
up
in
the
trees
and
lynch
themselves,”
Goldberg
continued.
“You
know,
people
were
angry
and
came
and
burned
them
out.
Emmett
Till
did
not
do
that
to
himself,
that
was
done
to
him
’cause
somebody
was
angry
because
he
overstepped
in
their
mind
what
he
was
supposed
to
do
as
a
Black
person.”
The
EGOT
winner
concluded
her
remarks
before
the
rest
of
the
panel
joined
in:
“Yeah,
we
are
trying
to
get
it
better,
but
stop
trying
to
whitewash
it
because
every
time
they
say
we’re
gonna
take
away
Black
history,
we’re
gonna
take
away
women’s
history
—
what
do
you
think
that
says?”
The
discussion
would
be
picked
up
again
as
Vice
President
Kamala
Harris
appeared
on
the
show.
She
began
by
stating
that
it
is
unwise
to
turn
such
a
topic
into
a
mere
soundbite
before
saying,
“There’s
no
denying
that
we
have,
in
our
history
as
a
nation,
racism,
and
that
racism
has
played
a
role
in
the
history
of
our
nation.
I
think
we
all
would
agree
that
while
it
is
part
of
our
past
and
we
see
vestiges
of
it
today,
we
should
also
be
committed
collectively
to
not
letting
it
define
the
future
of
our
country.”
Haley’s
recent
claim
follows
a
campaign
run
in
Iowa
mired
by
her
refusal
to
acknowledge
slavery
as
the
prime
cause
of
the
Civil
War.
The
former
governor
of
South
Carolina
would
try
to
deflect
from
that
backlash,
claiming
that
she
“had
Black
friends
growing
up”
as
a
defense.
She
currently
is
trailing
behind
former
President
Donald
Trump
as
the
GOP
candidates
begin
to
campaign
in
New
Hampshire.