Whoopi Goldberg’s Holocaust comments on The View inaccurately claimed that the genocide of millions of Jews was not about race. During the Holocaust, Jewish people were labeled as an “inferior race” by the Nazis, echoing similar eugenicist beliefs held in the U.S. during that time.
But race is a social construct, and social constructs have social histories. Our modern understanding of race was created at a specific historical juncture in colonial Virginia. Prior to that, it did not exist.
Two trending videos on Tiktok reignite conversations about the horrors inflicted due to white women tears.
Historically, interpretations of classical art are based on preconceived notions of anti-blackness when whiteness is seen as the standard.