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Only to an American leftist can a black American host the number one daytime show, be an award-winning actress and comedian, and somehow argue that people don’t pay attention to her. During an appearance on The Chris Cuomo Project podcast to promote her movie Till, about the murder of Emmitt Till, co-host of The View, Whoopi Goldberg suggested current-day white Americans were “not paying attention” to black Americans in much the same way they were in 1955.
At the top of the interview, Chris “Fredo” Cuomo lamented that the 1955 murder had fallen out of the news cycle and the media stopped reporting on it. “And it was huge in the 60s but I always feel Whoop, like it’s never mattered enough since. You know? Because there’s still some news there,” he said.
Goldberg built off of her friend and declared that black Americans “never mattered really enough” to the country. “You now? The mere fact that institutional racism just continues on like it was nothing,” she continued, beaming in from her mansion.
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