Hi Wanda, once again, I do agree with your conclusion. I just read another article by a fellow writer who talked about her awful U.S. history teacher - she was African American, but I had one who was almost the same as him (physically, and giving bad assignments/teaching poorly) whom I mentioned in my article (calling me out as "Jewish" to other class members when there were few/no Jewish people in our town - the best-known Jewish family were the ones that owned the local department store and most people did not know or think they were Jewish - there was no synagogue in our small So Cal town). Jewish people do tend to marry each other. There is a service called "J-Date" which is online dating for Jews, and I could belong to it, but would have to ID that my father is the Jew, not my mother, which makes me technically, not Jewish - I'd have to convert to marry a religiously observant Jew. My brother did do that and he is now officially Jewish. That said, the worst thing about what Whoopi said, and what I've heard other African American people say, is basically the part about it being a "fight between whites." There was no fight involved and that term should not be repeated. But regarding "skin color" alone - this was definitely something promoted by slave owners and slave benefiters - and I do know about the skin color situation in the American Black community. Jews have some of it too. For example, my father loved to take me around town (Los Angeles) and show me off. I was Gene's "shikse" daughter. Shikse is the Yiddish word for "white, Gentile" as in "Swedish Ski team". I've often been asked if I am Scandinavian or ... even German. Well -- no. I'm not. As I work with people from African nations, or others with Black ancestry from South America or the Caribbean, it's about ongoing prejudice and racism that takes so many forms. Whether on purpose or simply because she didn't know, Whoopi said some pretty harmful and hurtful things. There's no getting around it and at least the way she and the white supremacists say, no there aren't "two sides" to the Holocaust story any more than there are "two sides" to U.S. slavery. That was about second, third, fourth sons from the UK coming to North America, getting big tracts of land, and kidnapping people from Africa to work for them for free so they could become super wealthy landowners like their parents and grandparents. Same as Hitler wanted to take other country's land, houses, etc. so he and his cronies could become rich and live like Kings. Fascism, slavery - all very similar.