'The View's' Whoopi Goldberg Echos Raven-Symoné; Says She's "Not African-American" [WATCH]

After spending months defending Bill Cosby on The View as dozens of women said he'd sexually abused them, now Whoopi Goldberg's taking a cue from co-host Raven-Symoné to go a step further in controversial remarks, saying she's "American, not African-American," just as the It's So Raven! alum told Oprah Winfrey back in 2014.

According to She Knows, the ladies of The View were discussing Donald Trump's current campaign for the White House, when the subject of ethnicity somehow came up, and the Oscar-winning comedienne was quick to repeat the words co-host Symoné had once said.

"This is my country," Goldberg told the rest of the panel, who went silent for a bit. "My mother, my grandmother, my great-grand folks, we busted ass to be here. I'm sorry. I'm an American. I'm not an African-American, I'm not a chick American, I'm an American!"

As MSNBC reports, there has been a growing debate on the black community about how to identify themselves in an age where Rachel Dolezal's case gave room for questions about the possible fluidity of race.

Still, Goldberg is no stranger to controversy on the show, most recently defending Cosby's innocence for months and months even as more women kept speaking out against him. Ultimately, she backed down from defending her fellow comedian, so it's been Cosby Show alum Symoné creating controversy.

As MTV reported in 2014, Symoné was criticized for her own "not African-American" comments, after she said she was against labels of ethnicity and sexuality, something that angered people in the African-American community as well as others in the LGBT crowd.

Ever since Symoné joined The View, she is probably the co-host who gets in trouble with the press the most often. According to a Daily Mail report from late 2015, Symoné said she wouldn't hire someone with a black name like "Watermelondrea."

There's currently an online petition on Change.org to have Symoné fired from the morning talk show. So far, it has been signed by only 137,000 people. A small number in comparison to The View's nearly 3 million viewers.