As controversy of an all-white Oscar rages on, critics have indicted organizers of events such as BET Awards and Black History Month as also fueling segregation among Americans.
But American singer and actress, Whoopi Goldberg differs, as she explains the essence of such programmes during a television interview recently, where she also cited America’s Republican Presidential aspirant, Donald Trump’s unreserved disdain for the blacks.
“”Maybe it’s time for me to move,” if Donald Trump is elected president,” she said on Wednesday’s The View, garnering right-wing media coverage.
“I’ve always been an American, and this has always been my country, and we’ve always been able to have discussions,” she said. “And suddenly now it’s turning into, you know, ‘not them, not them.’”
As reported by Fox News, Goldberg also responded to Stacey Dash’s recent comments about getting rid of BET and Black History Month.
She explains as to why these networks and initiatives focusing on black people are so important, after her co-hosts asks, “Is [Black History Month] subconsciously, whether we realize it or not, creating a divide amongst us, and pitting one group against the next?”
Goldberg first asks her co-host what she knows about black history besides slavery, she doesn’t answer but says she knows what she’s taught in school, and what she’s tried to learn herself. Goldberg then explains:
But the thing is, [black history] is not taught. Asian history is not taught in school as it pertains to America. American history holds all of us, and [Dash] is right in that, yes we are all Americans, but we’re not all treated like Americans. One of the reasons that there is a BET is because networks wouldn’t take a lot of shows that has an all-black cast,” she said.