That’s another thing: what’s a negro doing with Jewish name?
Dutch grandmother?
http://www.qfak.com/livelihood/politics_government/?id=3103053
“Question
Is Whoopi Goldberg Jewish? If not why does she have a Jewish last name? What is her real name?
Her real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson. According to WIkipedia, “[s]he adopted the traditionally German/Jewish surname Goldberg as a stage name because her mother felt the original surname of Johnson was not “Jewish enough” to make her a star.”