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Whoopi Goldberg Returns To ‘The View’ After Two-Week Suspension Over Holocaust Statement

<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Whoopi Goldberg is back in the chair&excl; After a two-week suspension&comma; the 66-year-old is back with her View co-hosts on Monday after being suspended by ABC News over Holocaust statement&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Looking in the camera&comma; Whoopi stated&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Welcome to &&num;8216&semi;The View&&num;8217&semi;&excl; And yes&excl; I am back&period;&&num;8221&semi; She continued&comma; &&num;8220&semi;There&&num;8217&semi;s something kind of marvelous about being on a show like this because we are &&num;8216&semi;The View&comma;&&num;8217&semi; and this is what we do&period; Sometimes we don&&num;8217&semi;t do it as elegantly as we could&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s five minutes to get in important information about topics&period; And that&&num;8217&semi;s what we try to do every day&comma; and I want to thank everybody who reached out while I was away&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;p&sol;CZ967jQpPoB&sol;&quest;utm&lowbar;source&equals;ig&lowbar;embed&&num;038&semi;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;loading" data-instgrm-version&equals;"14" style&equals;" background&colon;&num;FFF&semi; 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- 2px&rpar;&semi;"><&sol;iframe>&NewLine; <&sol;div><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">She also stated&comma; &&num;8220&semi;It is an honor to sit at this table and be able to have these conversations because they&&num;8217&semi;re important&period; They&&num;8217&semi;re important to us as a nation&comma; and to us more so as a human entity&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;abc-suspends-whoopi-goldberg-from-the-view-for-two-weeks-over-holocaust-statement-update&sol;">As you know<&sol;a>&comma; the president of ABC&comma; Kim Godwin&comma; issued a statement on Feb 1st that read&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Effective immediately&comma; I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments&period; While Whoopi has <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;whoopi-goldberg-issues-an-apology-after-facing-backlash-for-saying-the-holocaust-was-not-about-race&sol;">apologized<&sol;a>&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments&period;&&num;8221&semi; She continued&comma; &&num;8220&semi;The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues&comma; friends&comma; family&comma; and communities&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">The day before&comma; the cast of the show was talking about a Tennessee school board&&num;8217&semi;s decision to remove a graphic novel&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Maus&period;&&num;8217&semi; During the discussion&comma; Goldberg said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;If you&&num;8217&semi;re going to do this&comma; then let&&num;8217&semi;s be truthful about it&comma; because the Holocaust isn&&num;8217&semi;t about race&period; No&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s not about race&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"font-weight&colon; 400&semi;">Roomies&comma; what do you think of this&quest;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine; 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