Oprah is extraordinarily intelligent, and I am convinced that she is good ar heart. She does so much that I admire.
When she fawns over "celebrities" it gets annoying, but that's forgiveable. She has become a celebrity herself, through her own hard work and resources, something commendable in itself, and she can certainly be forgiven a bit of giddiness at so high an altitude.
I certainly don't know this: but somehow I suspect that many (maybe all) of her closest friends are Leftists and that she allows herself to be influenced by them.
But she thinks so clearly on so many matters--including her comments on the O.J. Simpson trial, which frankly helped me to understand its outcome--that I find it astonishing and worrisome that she does not seem to think clearly about politics and the decadence that is the Left.
She is singlehandedly working wonders to improve race relations in the U.S. and throughout the world--and furthermore to ease the difficulties and frictions arising among the people of the world due to its effective shrinking here in the Information Age.
And she is especially working wonders in bringing Black America out of the horrors of the past and into a brilliant new world--something that White America has long longed for and welcomes, and has been unable to do, and in which White America also finds relief and peace of mind.
However, as America's race problems are solved, Black America will come to be the dominating influence. Black America will inherit the United States. It seems astonishingly short sighted of someone as brilliant as Oprah not to realize that it would be far better for Black America to inherit a healthy, prosperous, and great America than a decadent, sick, impoverished, Marxist America, which is exactly what will happen if the Left prevails.
If Oprah intends to hand over the United States to Black America or--more accurately, I think, to an America unblemished by racism--she would be wise to devote her efforts to keeping the United States the greatest, most prosperous, and most just nation the world has ever known--and the decadence that is the Left, including a commitment to Marxism, will accomplish the exact opposite.
I find it astonishing that Oprah has not thought this through clearly and seen the wisdom in rejecting the Left and the horrible decadence that it represents.
Very well stated,Beast.Yet I find that there is huge disconnect between celebs like Oprah,Cosby,etc. and the people at the so called lower end of the economic scale.This group is still emulating types of behavior that invalidates any chance of success in the American mainstream.
I find it tragically funny when I hear kids in the hood tell me they want to become rich and make their money in Law,Medicine or Business.And the fact is that most of them do not know how to use proper English,do basic math or have any cultural connections to traditional American values.The”cultural literacy”Hirsch wrote about years ago is a complete unknown in most inner city neighborhoods.
Perhaps realities like that influenced Oprah’s decision to concentrate her efforts in South Africa rather than at home.
But how in the world does she decide who to put on the cover of her magazine each month?
That’s a toughie.