American actress Whoopi Goldberg has issued an apology after facing a backlash for her comments on the Holocaust saying it "was not about race".
Goldberg, who co-hosts ABC's U.S. talk show The View said on Monday that the holocaust was about man's inhumanity to man and involved "two white groups of people".
The Oscar-winning actress later apologised saying, "On today's show, I said the Holocaust 'is not about race, but about man's inhumanity to man'. I should have said it is about both."
The discussion on the talk show came after a school board in Tennessee voted to remove the Holocaust-themed graphic novel "Maus" from its eighth-grade language arts curriculum, citing profanity and nudity contained in the Pulitzer Prize-winning work by cartoonist Art Spiegelman.
Goldberg's comments faced criticism by activists online for being dangerous.
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"No Whoopi Goldberg, the Holocaust was about the Nazis' systematic annihilation of the Jewish people – who they deemed to be an inferior race. They dehumanized them and used this racist propaganda to justify slaughtering 6 million Jews. Holocaust distortion is dangerous", Jonathan Greenblatt, Chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League said on Twitter.
"The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never waiver. I'm sorry for the hurt I have caused," Goldberg said in her apology.