Posted on 08/07/2013 4:13:46 PM PDT by drewh
Oprah Winfrey's conception of what constitutes racism is strangely egocentric. An assistant at a designer store in Switzerland did not recognize her and ignored her, so Winfrey assumed with her worldwide fame the incident reflected a racist attitude from the clerk. Winfrey related the incident when she spoke to Entertainment Tonight about Paula Deen's recent loss of work following her admission that she had used the N-word.
Winfrey said of Deen, whose home she had stayed at when she interviewed her for Oprah's Next Chapter show, "In the very first days I tried to reach her and then I decided to stay out of it as I saw it blowing up. In time she will be fine. For me, it all just felt kind of sad."
Winfrey said that once the brouhaha settles down from Deen's admission, there could be a real conversation about racism.
It shows up for me if I'm in a boardroom or situations where I'm the only woman or I'm the only African American person within a hundred mile radius. I can see in the energy of the people there, they don't sense that I should be holding one of those seats. I can sense that. I can never tell, "Is it racism? Is it sexism?
It might be egocentrism.
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You know who I really feel sorry for. It’s women who actually think Winfrey made a difference in their life.
D e l u s i o n a l
Ever notice how as a star’s career is clearly ENDING they suddenly get really, really liberal in a very public way?
Could be fatiphobia.
Which will go something like this: "You're a racist. Now, what are you going to do to make it up to me?"
Bugger off, Oprah.
If I was richer than most countries, you could call me anything you want, give me dirty looks, and even hang nooses on my locker. I’d just give a free car to all of your friends. I certainly wouldn’t care if you were anything-ist towards me. Because when you’re Oprah-rich, you can make Honey Badger look like a emo middle school girl!
I call BS, because the clerks at a Hermes store (especially the “men”) would know who Opie was.
I wandered into one by mistake once, no prices on anything. I asked about a scarf... $700! They said my wife would love it. I said she’d return it after she’d strangled me with it.
The woman has had a messiah complex for decades.
Maybe Orca was dressed incognito! lol
“America’s chickens have come home to ROOST..!”
Ya know why it was easy to ignore that her church (for YEARS) was a cesspool of black supremacists?
Because few people considered Oprah a hyperliberal whiner.
So HERE we see the truth —it ain’t pretty.
Same for the hyperWhite golf world —it was easy to ignore Tiger’s being black because he didn’t seem like a dangerous, self-destructive egomaniac.
THEN the questions began...
Offal Windbag is steady becoming irrelevant and a pathetic joke.
She will be bankrupt soon.
When she became a rah-rah girl for the kenyan, she lost a lot of her “stupid white women” fan club. They finally woke up and saw that she was just another race hustler.
Really Oprah? Really?
If she walked into my studio I'd ignore her, too, though I would doubtless know who she was.
As a fellow Freeper pointed out a few days ago; This old story goes back to 2005, then it was Paris, now it is Switzerland.
Check this out.
Talk about misleading...
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/oprah-gives-away-nearly-300-new-cars
That's right; if you were white, you'd never have been anything but a fat black woman.....deal with it.
‘....I can see in the energy of the people there, they don’t sense that I should be holding one of those seats. I can sense that. I can never tell, “Is it racism? Is it sexism?”
It’s neither. It’s your self-loathing and insecurity. Grow a pair! One isn’t guilty of sexism or racism just because you “sense” it.
desire to stay relevant. attention whore tendencies die very, very slowly.
It’s not just the boardroom for poor old Oprah. She was recently seen resting on a beach... when suddenly and without warning — 6 people from Greenpeace tried to push her back into the water.
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