"Goldberg is my name—it's part of my family, part of my heritage, just like being black...I just know I am Jewish. I practice nothing. I don't go to temple, but I do remember the holidays."

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>Researcher Henry Louis Gates Jr. found that all of Goldberg's traceable ancestors were blacks, that she had no known German or Jewish ancestry, and that none of her ancestors was 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 of West Africa.

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>>Researcher Henry Louis Gates Jr. found that all of Goldberg's traceable ancestors were blacks, that she had no known German or Jewish ancestry, and that none of her ancestors was 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 of West Africa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoopi_Goldberg

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Is this supposed to be a revelation? It even says on her wikipedia entry that her birth name is like Karyn Johnson.

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