Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for saying Holocaust was not about race, says 'I stand corrected'

Entertainer Whoopi Goldberg has apologized for saying the Holocaust was not about race, comments she made on ABC's "The View" that caused a backlash.

"On today's show, I said the Holocaust 'is not about race, but about man's inhumanity to man.' I should have said it is about both," she tweeted Monday. "As Jonathan Greenblatt from the Anti-Defamation League shared, 'The Holocaust was about the Nazi’s systematic annihilation of the Jewish people – who they deemed to be an inferior race.' I stand corrected. 

"The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I’m sorry for the hurt I have caused. Written with my sincerest apologies, Whoopi Goldberg."

The show's hosts earlier in the day were discussing the banning by a Tennessee school board of the Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel "Maus," which is about the World War II Nazi concentration camps.
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