{"id":1402052,"date":"2022-03-26T16:59:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T20:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402052"},"modified":"2022-03-26T16:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T20:59:56","slug":"whoopi-goldberg-demands-british-royal-family-apologise-for-empire-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whoopi-goldberg-demands-british-royal-family-apologise-for-empire-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"Whoopi Goldberg Demands British Royal Family Apologise for Empire, Slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhoopi-goldberg-demands-british-royal-family-apologise-for-empire-slavery%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402052&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">American chatshow host Whoopi Goldberg has called for the British royal family to apologise for the British Empire and its role in the slave trade.<\/p>\n<p>Caryn Johnson, who uses the stage name Whoopi Goldberg, demanded the royals atone for historic British colonialism and accused Britain of running \u201cram shod [sic] over India for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cLet us not forget when we talk about what needs to happen, all the folks that need to apologise,\u201d Goldberg told the audience of <em>The View<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg went on to incorrectly suggest that Prince Charles had previously apologised for slavery during his trip to Barbados in November 2021, claiming this was his way of \u201creleasing the hold that Britain has\u201d over Barbados.<\/p>\n<p>However, while the Prince of Wales\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/prince-charles-acknowledges-appalling-history-of-slavery-as-barbados-becomes-a-republic-12482796#:~:text=Prince%20Charles%20celebrated%20the%20UK&#039;s,chapter%20in%20the%20nation&#039;s%20history.\">acknowledged<\/a> \u201cthe appalling atrocity of slavery\u201d he did not apologise for it, GB News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.uk\/news\/whoopi-goldberg-fumes-at-uk-for-running-roughshod-over-india-in-fresh-call-for-slavery-apology-from-royal-family\/256391\">reports<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 perhaps unsurprisingly, given he was born in 1948, well over 100 years after abolition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The 66-year-old chatshow host\u2019s comments come after Prince William and his wife faced protests calling for the removal of\u00a0Queen Elizabeth II as Jamaica\u2019s head of state during their visit to the island nation as part of a royal tour celebrating the Queen\u2019s Platinum Jubilee.<\/p>\n<p>Protestors held <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/william-and-kate-jamaican-protester-says-couple-benefitting-from-her-great-great-grandparents-blood-tears-and-sweat-12572878\">provocative<\/a> anti-royal signs including messages <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/protesters-jamaica-cambridge-british-kingston-b2041610.html\">such as<\/a> \u201cGo back home\u201d, \u201cPrincesses and Princes belong in fairytales\u2026 not in Jamaica\u201d, \u201capologise\u201d, and calls for reparations.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Caribbean island\u2019s Rastafarian community also <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/03\/25\/whoopi-goldberg-blasts-royal-family-and-demands-apology-for-slavery-16341564\/\">accused<\/a> the royals of profiting from the \u201cblood, tears and sweat\u201d of Jamaican people \u2014 despite Britain having given Jamaica <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/news\/jamaica-eligible-for-%C2%A353m-in-british-aid_97293\">tens of millions of pounds<\/a> worth of financial aid just since 2017.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UlX5jT8lOg\">pic.twitter.com\/UlX5jT8lOg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News PR (@ABCNewsPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCNewsPR\/status\/1488701213256396802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking to Breitbart London, GB News presenter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/calvinrobinson\">Calvin Robinson<\/a>\u00a0lambasted Goldberg for her comments.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCritical Race Theory is a divisive, toxic ideology that stirs up racial tensions. It\u2019s a self-perpetuating cycle of hatred. The worst thing is, you can never be woke enough \u2014 these theories force people to attack themselves and each other\u201d, Robinson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake for example, Whoopi Goldberg, clearly not her real name. By the rules of CRT, Caryn Elaine Johnson has culturally appropriated a Jewish name. For that, should she apologise for her \u2018white supremacy\u2019?\u201d Robinson suggested.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAren\u2019t we getting a little tired of celebrities and their virtue signalling? Didn\u2019t Whoopi learn her lesson the last time she engaged in politics and ended up having to apologise for her anti-Semitism?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Goldberg was suspended from ABC for two weeks following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/02\/01\/whoopi-goldberg-suspended-from-abcs-the-view-over-holocaust-comments\/\">outlandish remarks<\/a> in which she said the extermination of six million Jews in the Holocaust was \u201cnot about race\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be truthful, the Holocaust isn\u2019t about race, it\u2019s not. It\u2019s about man\u2019s inhumanity to man, that\u2019s what it\u2019s about. These are two groups of white people,\u201d Goldberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.uk\/news\/whoopi-goldberg-suspended-for-two-weeks-over-hurtful-holocaust-comments\/218026\">said<\/a> in what some saw as an effort to diminish the suffering faced by the Jewish people because of their perceived status as \u201cwhite\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Malema appeared to admit that he views white people as a collective group, not as individuals, which warrants them to be \u201cpunished for the sins of their parents\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1kGNjCWeZj\">https:\/\/t.co\/1kGNjCWeZj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1495126044512165888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s revealing of Goldberg\u2019s political acumen, or lack of it, that she thought racism could only be practised by White on Black,\u201d commented Dr Zareer Masani, a historian and former BBC producer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019d obviously missed out on Holocaust or World War 2, not to mention racism between different shades of yellow, brown and black, not to mention reverse racism against whites,\u201d Masani continued, suggesting: \u201cPerhaps she should have read the matrimonial columns of any Indian newspaper, with their stipulations for skin colour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Luke_Doherty19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Luke Doherty<\/a>, the Chairman of think tank the Orthodox Conservatives Group, told Breitbart London that Goldberg\u2019s \u201ccriticism of the Royal Family on the issue of slavery\u201d was \u201ca dull and tiresome virtue signalling tirade\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt reflects the insanity of the postmodern, decolonisation lobby and their obsession with punishing people in the present for crimes and indiscretions of the past. Nobody alive today is materially responsible for slavery; and the mere fact of being related to somebody who was, does not justify this sort of attack,\u201d Doherty added.<\/p>\n<p>Britain in fact played a key role in stamping out the slave trade worldwide after abolishing it in 1807, paying a high price in both <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.history.ac.uk\/1807commemorated\/exhibitions\/museums\/chasing.html#:~:text=&#039;Between%201830%20%2D%201865%2C%20approximately,and%20accidental%20deaths...&#039;\">money and lives<\/a> to arm the Royal Navy\u2019s anti-slaver West Africa Squadron and, later, to bring the Barbary corsairs of North Africa \u2014 who had preyed primarily on European sailors and coastal communities for hundreds of years \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historic-uk.com\/HistoryUK\/HistoryofEngland\/Barbary-Pirates-English-Slaves\/\">to heel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Multi-millionaire Whoopi Goldberg is tackling the key issue in amid the Chinese coronavirus crisis. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FLkQxGTkjT\">https:\/\/t.co\/FLkQxGTkjT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1240453875414503424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 19, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5 class=\"western\"><em><span>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:<\/span><\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BreitbartLondon\/\"><span>Breitbart London<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American chatshow host Whoopi Goldberg has called for the British royal family to apologise for the British Empire and its role in the slave trade. 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