ABC and Disney are tolerant of racism when it comes from their black personalities. That much was again proven on Monday’s The View when co-host Whoopi Goldberg kicked off the show by talking about the police killing of Tyre Nichols. According to Goldberg, police reform wouldn’t happen until white people were getting beaten by police like black people were.
“Seems things don't seem to make sense to people unless it's somebody they can feel or they can recognize. But how many times do we have to – do you we need to see white people also get beaten before anybody will do anything?” Goldberg wondered during her opening screed.
She followed up by claiming she wasn’t suggesting what she was clearly suggesting. “I'm not suggesting that. So, don't write us and tell me what a racist I am,” she whined.
The ignorance on display was staggering. She starts from the repugnant premise that whites need to see “somebody they can feel or they can recognize” in order to empathize with blacks. But she also ignores the fact that police kill more white people every year than black people. There are also the antidotal cases of the 2011 police beating death of homeless Kelly Thomas (who cried for his mother while officers beat him to a literal bloody pulp) and the police shooting death of Daniel Shaver (who was shot while begging for his life and crawling on the floor, which he was ordered to do by an officer).
“We need to get people to do the job who know what the job is. People who have a sense of humanity,” Goldberg went on to declare near the end of the segment. She argued this was needed because unnamed “folks” had “dehumanized” black people into “some kind of monsters.”
Seemingly hinting at Fox News, she asserted, without evidence, “I listen to the other side on television and they talk about [black people] like we have no humanity.”
Goldberg then suggested the first instinct police have when they arrive on a scene is to immediately use deadly force. She even invented a scenario where a black woman was killed for smoking in her car:
So, I don't know what it's going to take. But I like what you're saying. I like that there's some thought process that actually might get us one step beyond the idea of murder being the first idea in people's minds. Whether it's a traffic stop for a lady who is smoking in her car and you don’t understand why she doesn’t want you in her face, but you kill her and everybody goes, “oh, that's really sad.” Or any other.
Her fellow racist co-host, Sunny Hostin, agreed with what it would take for police reform to be enacted. She was also irritated after recalling peoples’ concerns for their financial well-being and demanded a shift in focus. “[W]e got a lot of energy about gas prices and debt and inflation. I’d like to see that same energy directed towards police reform,” she huffed.
Hostin also took issue with New York City’s $6 billion police budget and Memphis’s $284 million one and called for defunding the police. “I think additional funding needs to be put into homelessness, need to be put into mental health, needs to be put into those -- poverty,” she urged. She suggested those issues were what was “leading these cops to criminalize black people.”
Whoopi Goldberg’s racism was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Procter & Gamble products and Sandals Hotels & Resorts. Their contact information is linked so you can tell them about racism they fund.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
ABC’s The View
January 30, 2023
11:02:21 a.m. Eastern(…)
WHOOPI GOLDBERG: I ask this question may too many times at this table. But, you know, when will the brutality finally lead to some police reform from the ground up? Because clearly, it doesn't matter if it's a white policeman or black policeman. It is the problem with the police – in the policing itself. You know.
Seems things don't seem to make sense to people unless it's somebody they can feel or they can recognize. But how many times do we have to – Do you we need to see white people also get beaten before anybody will do anything?
I'm not suggesting that. So, don't write us and tell me what a racist I am. I'm just asking is that what people have to see in order to wake up and realize this affects us all?
(…)
11:04:00 a.m. Eastern
SUNNY HOSTIN: When this type of thing happens and there's a civil settlement, we pay for that civil settlement. It comes out of tax payer dollars, it doesn’t come out of police budgets. When that changes, and we get some energy around that type of reform, I think it will change. Because we got a lot of energy about gas prices and debt and inflation. I’d like to see that same energy directed towards police reform. Because we are also paying for police brutality out of our tax dollars.
(…)
11:09:22 a.m. Eastern
HOSTIN: I just don't know if the answer is more funding for the police. New York City has $6 billion of police funding. Memphis, I believe, had $275 million in 2022. It's now $284 million in 2023. That's the projected budget. I don't know if it's about putting more money towards the police. I think additional funding needs to be put into homelessness, need to be put into mental health, needs to be put into those -- poverty, those things that are leading these cops to criminalize black people.
GOLDBERG: Yeah. This is -- We need to get people to do the job who know what the job is. People who have a sense of humanity. It was very easy for these folks -- I couldn't watch it. I could not. You know, I have had it up to here with this sh--. I've had it up to here. Because I don't know what we have to do. I don't get it. I don't understand why we are constantly asking and asking and asking.
Is it just because folks have dehumanized us and made us like some kind of monsters? I listen to the other side on television and they talk about us like we have no humanity. So, I don't know what it's going to take. But I like what you're saying. I like that there's some thought process that actually might get us one step beyond the idea of murder being the first idea in people's minds.
Whether it's a traffic stop for a lady who is smoking in her car and you don’t understand why she doesn’t want you in her face, but you kill her and everybody goes, “oh, that's really sad.” Or any other.
I'm sick of this. You should be sick of this.
SOMEONE IN THE AUDIENCE: We are.
GOLDBERG: Are we?
[Applause]
Then make sure that when you have the opportunity to make the changes that need to be made, make them. Don't sit around and do -- just talk about them. Let’s get something done. Because this is not going to stop until we stop it. It is up to us.
