Reports Surface Reminding People That Goldberg is ‘Whoopi’ Caryn Elaine Johnson’s Stage Name Amid Holocaust Comments Outrage

Different reports are surfacing with the current controversy surrounding Whoopi Goldberg. Yesterday on “The View “ Goldberg made controversial comments she has since walked back and apologized for about the Holocaust. She claimed that the Holocaust was “not about race”.

Goldberg claims, that her chosen surname for her stage name is hers according to a report from SmoothRadio.com. In the report, they address her stage name and what she has claimed in choosing it.

“She has said that her stage name Whoopi was taken from a whoopee cushion: “When you’re performing on stage, you never really have time to go into the bathroom and close the door. So if you get a little gassy, you’ve got to let it go. So people used to say to me, ‘You’re like a whoopee cushion.’ And that’s where the name came from.”

In 2011, she said: “My mother did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name – it’s part of my family, part of my heritage, just like being black”, and “I just know I am Jewish. I practice nothing. I don’t go to temple, but I do remember the holidays.”

She added that “people would say ‘Come on, are you Jewish?’ And I always say ‘Would you ask me that if I was white? I bet not.'”

The report continues to address Goldberg’s heritage, “A report in The Jewish Chronicle stated that her mother thought the family’s original surname was “not Jewish enough” for her daughter to become a Hollywood star. Researcher Henry Louis Gates Jr found that all of Whoopi’s traceable ancestors were African Americans, that she had no known German or Jewish ancestry, and that none of her ancestors were named Goldberg.

Results of a DNA test, which was revealed in the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives, traced part of her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote people of modern-day Guinea-Bissau.”

We are not claiming she is or isn’t Jewish, Goldberg herself is adamant that she is Jewish while others don’t seem to believe her claim.

Jonathan Greenblatt, who is the CEO of the ADL, was invited on “The View” today to have a conversation with Goldberg. Greenblatt had already thanked Goldberg, for her apology she made on Twitter last night.

“Thanks, @WhoopiGoldberg for correcting your prior statement and acknowledging the #Holocaust for what it was. As #antisemitism surges to historic levels, I hope we can work together to combat ignorance of that horrific crime and the hate that threatens all.”

Thanks @WhoopiGoldberg for correcting your prior statement and acknowledging the #Holocaust for what it was. As #antisemitism surges to historic levels, I hope we can work together to combat ignorance of that horrific crime and the hate that threatens all. https://t.co/ltsHrwmLCG

— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) February 1, 2022

This is not the first time that Goldberg has been in trouble with the ADL. In the earlier ’90s, she came under fire after she put a recipe called “Jewish American Princess Fried Chicken” in a cookbook for charity. Abraham Foxman, the national director of the ADL at the time didn’t find the recipe funny calling it, “not funny, it’s insulting. It’s a lousy recipe with insensitive and anti-Semitic ingredients.”

He continued, “Whoopi should know better. She needs some sensitivity training, unfortunately. The good people who published it need some sensitivity training too.”

Goldberg’s publicist replied back then, “maybe (the critics) are not aware that Whoopi is Jewish, so she is certainly not anti-Semitic.”

Goldberg herself didn’t apologize and went on to say, “I am a Jewish-American princess. That’s probably what bothers people most. It’s not my problem people are uncomfortable with the fact that I’m Jewish.” She added, “and even if I wasn’t (Jewish),” she says, “I mean, come on, (Jewish-American princess) it’s like being called . . . a lawyer.”

Maybe this incident was a little flashback to the old Goldberg who seemed to do things that today would end up getting one canceled by the left. While dating Ted Danson, he showed up to an event in blackface.

Goldberg said this about it, “I love blackface because for me it’s a great measuring stick of where we’ve been. We get to be black now. We don’t have to paint up. I don’t quite get what the stink was.” Not sure that is how she would feel about it in this day and age.