Open Letter to Black Journalists:Whoopi

 Open Letter to Black Journalists : Whoopi

It has been disturbing and disheartening observing Whoopi Goldberg being dragged and compelled to apologize for being candid and factual with her reasoned insights about the Holocaust.

Nothing Whoopi stated was fictional nor scripted disinformation or misinformation about the Holocaust. It has been extremely disturbing observing so many in America inserting credibility to Hitler and the Nazis’ analysis of race on the back of Whoopi and facts.

Equally disturbing and disheartening as well is the silence from the overwhelming majority of Black journalists in America, including many who are part of the Journal-isms Roundtable, to offer an analysis and commentary that informs and affirms Whoopi.

The plight of Black women in every sphere of life in America deserves to be discussed and written about on our media platforms, not just those stories about Black women seeking history on our SCOTUS or parenting in a pandemic, etc. etc.

The very few commentaries that have been authored by Black journalists don’t advance anything notable; a few have affirmed the majority media platforms that Whoopi was wrong in her views about the Holocaust and Jews. Another Black pundit simply babbled about the origins of race. Another prominent Black woman pundit echoed the rant that Whoopi was insensitive and then inserted CRT for some misplaced linkage rather than making sense or any substantive comments about Whoopi’s reasoned excursion down the Holocaust rabbit hole. Overall, it has been shameful observing so many notable Black journalists run for cover on this saga.

The absence of Black voices now with regard to Whoopi is unsettling and almost cowardly. Neither Hitler’s nor the Nazis’ perspectives about race are credible, now or then. There were millions of victims of the Holocaust who were not Jews. Whoopi ‘s opinion about the inhumanity of the Holocaust was on point.

The shredding by Jewish PC pundits and other civil rights organizations deserves to be rejected and challenged not only with reason but with facts, such as Judaism is not race , it is a religious belief system, and many Jews are quite diverse racially.

Whoopi did not insult, nor did her comments embrace the Holocaust . Whoopi did not declare that Hitler was a mensch nor that Golda Meir was a witch. Black Americans should never fear nor be threatened into silence or censorship in having an opinion on any subject matter. No collective in America is beyond approach and criticism, including Black Americans, Jewish Americans, Native Americans and others.

Black Americans and the nation deserve better than this act of MIA journalism and cowardice that has been exhibited by far too many Black journalists in America with respect to this topic.

Greg Thrasher
Director
Plane Ideas
Alternative Think Tank
Detroit/DC
Planeidea@MSN.com