Whoopi Goldberg references the struggles of the working class and says she would quit The View if she had enough money

Whoopi Goldberg says she would quit The View if she had enough money

Referring to the working class, The Color Purple star said: “I guess people have a hard time. Me too. I work to make a living.” She further explained that she would leave the daytime talk show, which she joined in 2007, if she had enough money to survive. “If I had all the money in the world, I wouldn’t be here, okay? “So I’m a working person, you know?” Goldberg emphasized.

“My child has to feed his family. My great-granddaughter has to be fed by her family. I know it's hard out there,” the Sister Act star continued, adding, “I love what [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] did. Yes. We talk to people all the time who say, “That's what bothers me.” But what bothers everyone shouldn't be what puts 85 percent of other people in danger. I think that’s what we’re saying.”

Goldberg's comments come as she faces backlash from grocers for calling them “pigs.” “Their wallets are bad, not because the Bidens have done anything. Not because the economy is bad. “Their grocery bills are what they are because the people who own the groceries are pigs,” she said on The View last week. The National Grocers Association, which represents more than 21,000 stores nationwide, objected to Goldberg's comments, according to the New York Post.

In a letter addressed to The View executive producer Brian Teta, NGA boss Greg Ferrara criticized the co-host, saying, “We are deeply disturbed by these comments…referring to people who own grocery stores as 'pigs.' .” “Statements that…” “Falsely portraying grocers as 'loiterers' not only exacerbates these tensions, but also risks further harm to these frontline workers who continue to serve the public even in difficult times have,” Ferrara added.