Whoopi Goldberg: Black People Living in America Have It Just as Bad as the People in Iran

EXCERPT:

GOLDBERG: "Here's the thing. Let’s not do that, because if we start with that, we have — we have been known in this country to tie gay folks to the car."

(Applause)

FARAH GRIFFIN: "I'm sorry, but the Iranian regime is — "

GOLDBERG: "Listen, I’m sorry. They were hanging black people. So let's not — "

FARAH GRIFFIN: "They’re not even the same — I would not — "

GOLDBERG: "That’s not what you mean to say. It is the same."

FARAH GRIFFIN: "No, it's not. The year 2025 the United States is nothing like if I stepped foot wearing this outfit in Tehran right now."

GOLDBERG: "Listen, I’m sorry — "

FARAH GRIFFIN: "I can’t have my hair showing. I can't wear a skirt. I can't have my arms out."

GOLDBERG: "I'm telling you — "

HOSTIN: "It’s up to us to judge?"

FARAH GRIFFIN: "I literally said it was up to the Iranian people."

GOLDBERG: "Yes. And that’s why I’m saying that it is the same. Murdering someone for their difference is not good whoever does it. It's not good.

(Applause)

So that’s why I said, you weren’t saying what you — what I heard was not what you meant."

FARAH GRIFFIN: "I think it’s very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran."

GOLDBERG: "Not if you’re black."