Whoopi Goldberg: I Won an Oscar, So Academy Awards "Can't Be That Racist"

 Whoopi Goldberg says because she won an Oscar, the Academy Awards "can't be that racist."

Goldberg has been discussing the Academy Awards' lack-of-diversity controversy on The View nearly every day, and today she said her 1991 Oscar win is proof the Academy isn't biased against African-Americans, according to Us Weekly.

"The issue is not the Academy," Goldberg, 60, said. "Even if you fill the Academy with black and Latino and Asian members, if there's no one on the screen to vote for, you're not going to get the outcome that you want."

Goldberg won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1991 for the film Ghost.

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"I won once," the star explained on the program. "So it can't be that racist."

She also said she thinks the lack of diversity needs to be addressed at the casting level.

"You need directors and producers who will say, 'Hey, what about so and so?'" Goldberg said, according to BET. "They need to be aware that the picture is not complete."

She said she doesn't believe that boycotting the Oscars -- Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee have said they won't attend or watch the show in protest -- will achieve anything .

"You wanna boycott something? Don't go see the movies that don't have your representation. That's the boycott you want," she said. according to Huffington Post. "To me, we have this conversation every year. It pisses me off."