You don't have to be black, you just have to be whatever minority is the public enemy in a particular region at a particular time.
She also shouldn't really come at Rosie, as she has seen her share of discrimination for being gay and overweight.
Whoopi is taking the entitled black perspective, in which her victimhood is greater. Check history. EVERY group has been
subject to open racism. I live in heavily segregated Chicago and every neighborhood has had its share of racism from the Jews
to the Indians to the Polish. It isn't exclusive to black people to recognize racism, it is just an issue that seems to have taken its
historic turn on our behalf, black folks in America, a country which happened to be built on racism from day one.