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Ignore meta, return to victimhood (media.kotakuinaction2.win)
posted 4 years ago by CarmenOfSandiego 4 years ago by CarmenOfSandiego +39 / -0
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– SupremeReader 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

It's not her or her husband's name?

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– CarmenOfSandiego [S] 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

Nope.

born Caryn Elaine Johnson

Husband 1

Alvin Martin ​(m. 1973; div. 1979)​

Husband 2

David Claessen ​(m. 1986; div. 1988)​

Husband 3

Lyle Trachtenberg ​(m. 1994; div. 1995)

Meanwhile,

About her stage surname, she claimed in 2011, "My mother did not name me Whoopi, but Goldberg is my name—it's part of my family, part of my heritage, just like being black", and "I just know I am Jewish. I practice nothing. I don't go to temple, but I do remember the holidays."

So she's transJewish.

She has stated that "people would say 'Come on, are you Jewish?' And I always say 'Would you ask me that if I was white? I bet not.'"

If in doubt, play the race card.

One account recalls that her mother, Emma Johnson, thought the family's original surname was "not Jewish enough" for her daughter to become a star.

Mother knew what was up.

Researcher Henry Louis Gates Jr. found that all of Goldberg's traceable ancestors were African Americans, that she had no known German or Jewish ancestry, and that none of her ancestors were named Goldberg. Results of a DNA test, revealed in the 2006 PBS documentary African American Lives, traced part of her ancestry to the Papel and Bayote people of modern-day Guinea-Bissau. Her admixture test indicates that she is of 92 percent sub-Saharan African origin and of 8 percent European origin.

I'm sure she totally accepted this Science™ when it was presented to her.

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– GhostBond 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

I've read she believed she'd do better in hollywood if she had a jewish last name. She's very famous and successful now, so...perhaps she was right?

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– Sneak_King 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

lol, no. It was a jewish name so that they'd put her application at the top of the stack.

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