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Whoopi Goldberg asks if ‘we need to see White people get beat up’ to see change, then quickly clarifies
‘I’m not suggesting that. So don’t write us and tell me what a racist I am,’ Goldberg quickly added
(Fox News) “The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg wondered on Monday if “we need to see White people get beat up” to see meaningful police reform before clarifying that she was “not suggesting that” following the death of Tyre Nichols.
“Do we need to see White people also get beat before anybody will do anything? I’m not suggesting that. So don’t write us and tell me what a racist I am. I’m just asking is that what people have to see in order to wake up and realize this affects us all?” Goldberg asked.
She also wondered when this brutality would “finally lead to some police reform from the ground up.”
“I asked this question way too many times at this table. But, you know, when will the brutality finally lead to some police reform from the ground up? Because clearly it doesn’t matter if it’s a White policeman or Black policeman. It is a problem in the policing itself. It seems things don’t seem to make sense to people unless it’s somebody they can feel or they can recognize,” she said.
“The View” host Whoopi Goldberg on Jan. 30, 2023. (Screenshot/ABC/TheView)
Authorities in Memphis released video of five police officers brutally beating Tyre Nichols after a traffic stop on Jan. 7. Nichols, who was 29, spent three days in the hospital before he succumbed to his injuries.
Co-host Ana Navarro said that Nichols’ death was the reason why “we cannot ban history.”
“How many more times are we going to have to see Black youth beaten to death, beaten to the point of not being recognizable and do it over and over again. Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Stephon Clark, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Tyre Nichols. How many more times? This is why we cannot ban history,” Navarro began.
“This is why in the midst of all this happening banning AP African American studies in Florida is the wrong thing to do. We need to learn from history not to repeat the same things over and over again,” she said.
