Newsflash!
Whoopi Goldberg, a black woman, wants to assure you that she knows
Mel Gibson and despite what the actor allegedly says on those tapes released this week, he is
not a racist. Mel Gibson has been inside Whoopi’s house and hung out with her daughter and since they are both black, his deigning them with his presence means he is so not a racist. Essentially, that is what Goldberg argued during “The View”‘s Hot Topics segment yesterday, when the gals were discussing Mel’s screaming rant at ex
Oksana Grigorieva, in which he told her that if she were raped by a pack of n***ers it would be her fault. Whoopi doesn’t
approve of Gibson’s language, of course — she goes as far as to call him
boneheaded! — but his use of the n-word, in her opinion, does not make him a racist.
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