Whoopi Goldberg apologizes for saying the Holocaust was "not about race"

Actress and talk show host Whoopi Goldberg came under fire on Monday after saying the Holocaust was "not about race." 

Goldberg made the comments during Mondays' episode of ABC's "The View" as she and the other hosts were discussing how the Holocaust-centered graphic novel "Maus" was banned by a Tennessee school board, becoming just the latest on a lengthy list of banned books in the U.S. 

The Pulitzer Prize winning novel is about the author and his father, Holocaust survivor Vladek Spiegelman, and the genocide's impact on their relationship. The Tennessee school board banned the book, Goldberg said, because there were complaints about the novel containing nudity and bad language.