Television host, Whoopi Goldberg has maintained Wednesday that the black actors and actresses are not marginalized in the film industry despite the absence or lack of nominees from the black community in this year’s Academy Awards.

Goldberg has emphasized that there were five black actors who have bagged the much-coveted awards since 2002. And this she said gives them no reason to complain about the representation of the black Hollywood actors at the Oscars.

Goldberg was quoted by the Associated Press as saying: "I don't know how it gets better."

"I think we're all right," The View” host said after posing for pictures which came after she hosted the opening of an exhibit of Oscar statues inside New York’s Grand Central terminal Wednesday.

A two-time Oscar nominee herself, Goldberg took Wednesday’s event to clarify comments she had made earlier in reaction to an article written by the New York Times.

Goldberg according to AP was heard saying on “The View” that she was disappointed about a Times article citing the ‘lack of black nominees at 83rd Oscars. The host was equally disturbed by the failure of the same Times article to include her on the list as the supporting actress for “Ghost” (1990s).

The Times then responded to her comments by saying that the list was not meant to provide a comprehensive list of all the actors that had won the Oscars. Goldberg then issued an apology for calling the report sloppy.

At Wednesday’s opening of the exhibit at Grand Central, Goldberg reiterated that there is nothing wrong with how things are at the Oscars as far as the nominations for black actors are concerned.

"This idea that there's something wrong, something missing, seemed very inaccurate to me. And it was," Goldberg said, according to AP.

She added, "And there are a lot of people in that small little world of black Oscar folks. And, yeah. If you're going to talk about it, then talk about it. Don't sort of talk around it. That was my point."

Goldberg was host for Oscars four times and was nominated twice for the highly prestigious award giving body that will hold its 83rd awards night on February 27.