By: Gabrielle Taite

Earlier this week on Monday, January 31, The View cohost, Whoopi Goldberg was suspended for remarks she made concerning the Holocaust. 

The show’s hosts were discussing the recent decision of a Tennessee school to ban the 1980 book Maus which is a graphic novel by cartoonist Art Spiegelman that depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father about his experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor. 

During the discussion, Goldberg made claims that the Holocaust “was not about race,”  but instead about “man’s inhumanity to man” and involved “two white groups of people. This sparked outrage amongst some viewers, causing Goldberg to be suspended from the show for two weeks on Tuesday, Feb. 1. 

ABC News President, Kim Godwin, said Goldberg was asked “to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments” throughout her suspension. This comes after Goldberg served as a special guest on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and further explained the comments she made earlier in the day, where she eventually issued an apology on Twitter. 

During the next day’s showing of The View, Goldberg even apologized for her comments, stating that she had made a poor choice of words. However, her apologies were not enough for some causing her to be suspended from the show. 

Goldberg’s removal from the program has since drawn some critics who say the network’s decision to suspend the cohost was too rash and a missed learning opportunity for the network, as the Holocaust is a sensitive topic that is rarely discussed on air. This situation has sparked a “cancel culture” frenzy spurring strong emotions on both sides of the argument as to whether the liberal actor should be canceled or corrected about her comments. 

Previous public figures who have come under fire for their comments concerning Jewish people include actor Nick Cannon who was fired from his MTV show Wild ’N Out by the program’s parent company ViacomCBS for comments they said “promoted hateful speech.” 

In the episode of Cannon’s Class, the 41-year-old host interviewed former Public Enemy rapper Professor Griff who left the rap group in 1989 after claiming that Jewish people were “wicked.” Professor Griff then went on to state that he was talking about the Jewish people controlling the media and said “I’m hated now because I told the truth,” where Cannon agreed with him and even stated that “Semitic people are black people”, and that: “You can’t be anti-Semitic when we are the Semitic people.” 

The question of the harshness of cancel culture quickly arises in Goldberg’s scenario as well as many others. 

Editor of Jewcy, and online platform for young Jews, Isaac de Castro, took to Twitter to say that Goldberg’s comments reflected the inability of many Americans to understand race and racism outside of their prism, but also added “putting a grown woman in a time-out” does little to advance a reckoning with Jewish identity.

In recent times it appears as though the rules seem to be more enforced when it comes to Black public figures versus their non Black counterparts. In 2015 Kelly Osbourne said on an episode of The View about then presidential candidate Donald Trump, “If you kick every Latino out of this country, then who is going to be cleaning your toilet, Donald Trump?” Osborne questioned. 

Other cohost of the show which included Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie Perez, Michelle Collins and Raven-Symoné can be heard disagreeing with Osborne, where she later began to backtrack her comments. 

Perez even corrected Osbourne saying, “Latinos are not the only people that do that.” 

Osbourne later apologized, however no dramatic action was taken against her such as removing her from the show.

Giuliana Rancic was reprimanded back in 2015 for her stereotypical comments on the hit show Fashion Police where she stated that actor Zenday’s dreadlocked hair looked like it “smells like patchouli oil and weed.”

Rancic later apologized, however was not faced with removal from the show. Beauty moguls such as Jeffree Star have even made a multitude of racist remarks as well as had problematic instances and yet still seem to be mostly unaffected by cancel culture. 

However, stars like Roseanne Barr have faced the consequences of their ignorant, racist comments, by having their shows cancelled. The discussion of cancelling individuals rather than educating them becomes a problem when the person who made the offensive comments has apologized and is willing to learn from their mistake, just as Goldberg has done.

ABC has not made any further comment on whether or not they plan to keep the suspension in place as of late or what they will do once Goldberg returns to the show. Check out the link below to see some of the segment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhITfM4bqO8

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OutKast had Atlanta jumping last weekend with their historic return home with their ATLast concert performances. The Dungeon Family was all over the scene throughout the city and the party will keep rocking this month as Killer Mike will headline Dungeons & Dragons: The Real A-Town Experience on Friday, October at The Loft. Hosted by Fort Knox, the D.F. Reunion will also feature performances from Cool Breeze, Slim Calhoun, EJ Da Witchdoctor, Backbone, Blackowned C-Bone, Lil Will, Scotty ATL and more. Speaking of uniting with his day one crew, Killa Kill stated,

“Over the last few weeks, we’ve witnessed several great moments for Atlanta Hip-Hop. The ‘ATL: The Untold Story of Atlanta’s Rise in the Rap Game’ documentary took us back to where it all started. The Outkast #ATLast weekend was historic on so many levels. Not only did it remind us of where Outkast took the game, and the many artists that were ready to prove that “The South had something to say” when ‘Kast proclaimed; but also, with the inclusion of artists like K Camp, Childish Gambino, Raury, B.O.B. and Rae Sremmurd, showing us how many new voices are ready to keep our voice strong. So I figured, what better time to celebrate to celebrate the second wave of artists to come out of the Dungeon Family. Cool Breeze, Slim Calhoun, Blackowned C-Bone, EJ Da Witchdoctor, Backbone, Lil Will and myself have all contributed classic material to reinforce Atlanta’s place in Hip-Hop. And Scotty ATL has proven time and again that he is ready to carry that torch.”

Tickets are available for $20 in advance at TicketAlternative.com. Tickets will be $25 at the door.

Killer Mike was also in the building this past Saturday as Organized Noize hosted the ATLast official after party at 595 North produced by The Muddy Water Group.  With an abundance of Dungeon Family hits rocking the whole night, Big Rube also celebrated his birthday as Ray Murray, Mr. DJ, and Kawan “KP” Prathar manned the wheels of steel. Rico Wade, Sleepy Brown and Slim Calhoun were also in the building. Peep a few of the flicks now provided by  InspireMagAtl.com.

Big Rube, Rico Wade and The Dungeon Family representing.

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It’s the Hip Hop duo reunion we’ve all been waiting for. According to Revolt, Outkast members Big Boi and Andre 3000 plan on working on a new album together. Not before they release their own solo projects first. This news was announced shortly after Outkast released their plans to perform at over 40 festival dates this year. The festival tour is to celebrate the 20th anniversary of when their debut album, Southernplayalisticadillamuzik was released. Currently both Andre and Big Boi have been recording solo material at Stankonia Studios in Atlanta. Also for their performance at CounterPoint Festival in Georgia this April which will be their first hometown event since their reunion. We can also expect to see some Dungeon Family members including Big Gripp on some select dates.

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With Trouble Man dropping on December 18th, the King of the South, Tip has released his second song off the album featuring a Dungeon Family member and we couldn’t be happier. T.I., Cee-Lo Green and The Neptunes all on one track? Say no more.

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Gentlemen music lovers around the globe can rejoice October 25, as GQ’s annual music issue hits stands. Hip Hop heavyweights, Lil Wayne and Eminem grace the cover along with Rolling Stones legend, Keith Richards who were all crowned by the magazine as “Gods of Rock”. “The Survivors”-themed November issue features a porfolio full of editorials and pics of some of music’s greatest survivors and living legends, such as Atlanta’s own Dungeon Family including Big Boi, Andre 3000, Goodie Mob, Rico Wade and others. They say when the world ends, the only things that will survive are Twinkies and cockroaches, well add The Dungeon Family to that list! The issue also features soulstress Erykah Badu and your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper, Raekwon. Video inside.

What do you think of Lil Wayne and Eminem being crowned “Rock Gods” by GQ?? Leave a comment and let us know!

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After a seven year break and the release of their ’04 album One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show, Atlanta rap group Goodie Mob plans to return with a new album this fall. With Cee-Lo Green busy handling his own business, he’ll be joining up with Khujo, T-Mo, and Big Gipp again to drop We Sell Drugs Too.

Cee- Lo announced via Twitter just a few hours ago:

Goodie Mob, debuted in 1995 with their album Soul Food and is part of the Atlanta joint musical Dungeon Family, which also features OutKast and Organized Noize.

Here’s an oldie but “goodie” from their 1998 album Still Standing, “Black Ice”.

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