The View’s Whoopi Goldberg Compares Today’s Politics to Talk That Got People ‘Lynched’ in the ’60s
The View's Whoopi Goldberg on Tuesday compared today's political environment to that of when she was a child, talk that led to people get “lynched.” Discussing Last week's Arizona shooting, she warned, ” When I was growing up, people talking and saying things, whipping folks up, caused a lot of people to get lynched. ” Continuing this theme, she added, “Now, had those people not done all that, would it have happened any way? It may have. I don't know. But I do know that sometimes we, as a society, have to sort of be aware of what we are doing.” (Of course, Goldberg's historical analogy falls apart when you consider the fact that she was born in 1955 and grew up in the '60s, a time when lynchings were at a historical low .) The normally conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck even inquired if Sarah Palin's career might be over as a result of the cross hairs ad her political action committee released in 2010. read more
Read more from the original source:
The View’s Whoopi Goldberg Compares Today’s Politics to Talk That Got People ‘Lynched’ in the ’60s
Posted by
on January 11, 2011. Filed under