Posted on 11/21/2013 1:22:41 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
Oprah Winfrey, one of the wealthiest people in the world, is throwing the race card again.
During an interview with the BBC Friday, she not only said that President Obama is treated with disrespect because he’s black, but also that entire generations of racists are going to have to die for racism to end (video follows with transcript and commentary):
WILL GOMPERTZ, BBC: The issue of the civil rights movement, and the way that black people around the world are treated, particularly I suppose in, around the world…
OPRAH WINFREY: Around the world.
GOMPERTZ: Around the world. Look at place like Russia, it’s, you know…
WINFREY: Around the world.
GOMPERTZ: So is this, is this, I suppose from a movie point of view, what the movie and the messages hold and the other movies we were discussing, and “Scottsboro Boys,” are these historical comments or are we still looking at a contemporary issue?
WINFREY: Good question. Well phrased. Good job. It would be foolish to not recognize that we have evolved in that we’re not still facing the same kind of terrorism against black people en masse as was displayed with the Scottsboro boys. It’s gotten better. Are there still places where people are terrorized because of the color of their skin, because of the color of their black skin? Yes. But there are laws that have allowed us to progress beyond what we saw in the Scottsboro boys and beyond the even the prejudice we see in “The Butler.”
Just her opinion. No more or less significant than anyone else’s.
“entire generations of racists are going to have to die for racism to end”
Wishful thinking; even the waves of foreign “replacement Americans” hate blacks within days of landing here. They are their own worst enemy; if they wanted to be treated as equals they should demand that the government treat them as equals, rather than darker, lobotomized versions of homo sapiens.
I’m glad she said that and then was awarded the medal; it reinforces the obvious notion that Obama is only the president for blacks. He ignores whites, and they would call the cops if he set foot on their lawn.
“I’m sorry that Oprah is wishing death on Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Eric Holder and even the president.”
I am not the least bit sorry that Orpha will soon be choosing her date.
When Oprah says racist, she means whitey, or cracker, and by dieing, she means killed by blacks. Oprah wants black people to start killing all the white people, beginning with anyone who doesn’t worship Obama.
“Problem is, current day race baiters like Oprah are creating a whole new generation of racial tension both black and white. And it ain’t your grandaddy’s style of racism.”
This simply reinforces the view that blacks can’t coexist with whites; many people (on both sides) are OK with that assessment. If whites say it, they are racist; when Oprah says it, is is gospel truth. I’ll choose the latter; no disagreement here. We arrive at the same conclusion.
Obama & Oprah are completing what the Klan set out to do decades ago; in the end, their people are in more misery than ever, and there are no whites left who even pretend to care.
Yeah Oprah - I’m sure if everyone in my generation dies and our great great great grandkids walk down the street and black thugs knock them out for the fun of it, I’m sure they won’t notice. They won’t notice that the original flash mobs were white - and those mobs would do things like break into song in a mall at Christmas time.
Blacks put their own twist on it with ‘flash mobs’ that robbed stores. Gas stations. 7-11’s... you get the idea, right Oprah?
Oprah, the black community has problems...
I’m on board! Let’s say we start with...Oprah.
I don’t give a flying rat’s dingleberries what color a person’s skin is. I will hold everyone to the same standard. That is the hallmark of someone who is not a racist, and is the exact opposite of Barak a**hole Obama and whatever the hell that dumb broad’s name is.
Is Jesse Jackson going to take this sitting down?
oh...so I wasn’t the first to notice?
This sounds like a threat to the President and the Attorney General.
considering his background, associates, and many public statements... is she threatening the president with this statement?
Not a whole ton of Irish anymore in the Chicago Police. Not like the old days when I was growing up.
I think it is very rare a male Caucasian can make rank anymore, remember we have Affirmative Action on our testing for Fire Dept and Police Dept. Extra points for minority, which means a white male who scores 100% can be beat by a minority who scores 80%, and I think I read a female minority by 70%. (don’t quote me on these percentages, it’s something along those lines, and the unions let it happen, go figure).
We have a TON of black female police officers now (most are very heavy btw and short for some reason, not sure how they pass their PT tests).
Not so many “micks”. Well, except the mounted cops downtown, I never see a black cop mounted on horseback. No idea why that is.
A common complaint heard is there are too many petite women on the fire department, and they can’t remove sick or elderly from a home, with just one partner, they don’t have the strength for stairs and stuff, so they have to have an extra FF or EMT on hand, by union rules, adding one more to the payroll. Don Wade several years ago talked about females in the Fire Tests, and they only had to do push-ups from the knees, carry hoses half distances, and stuff like that.
Not a sexist or a racist here, just stuff I see on the local news and hear on the local radio stations.
Her original show was a morning show, AM Chicago, then she stole actually, the Jerry Springer concept. Remember she ran that trash for a decade, then decided she was “above all that”, after she made several million dollars of course. Then stole Donahue.
Also, she was insurance for CBS. Just like Jerry Rivers aka Geraldo Rivera (same CBS). They didn’t want to hire more minorities, so they paid her the insane (at that time) sum of 1,000,000 a year. It protected them from discrimination lawsuits. Her negotiator was none other than Jesse Justice Brother Jackson.
She did this same thing when her film “the butler” was being introduced in the US - remember her little story about the lady in the boutique telling her a purse was too expensive for her? In reality, the clerk had offered to get her another purse, that wasn’t as expensive but she might like it all the same, and also offered to get the purse from the original price from the shelf for oprah. The clerk actually came forward. At the end of each US article was the statement oprah’s film was opening around the US at that time. Until then, I had no idea she had a movie opening.
This time, she was in England, promoting the opening of “the butler” in London and elsewhere. And she got her intended publicity.
The really ugly thing about this is not just the content of the statements, both times, but the fact she played the race card to get play for her opening movie. That aspect of the motive makes it really despicable.
She has history of this, dating back to 2005:
http://floppingaces.net/2013/08/14/oprah-has-a-brush-with-racism-with-each-new-movie-release/
To: AngelesCrestHighway
She did this same thing when her film “the butler” was being introduced in the US - remember her little story about the lady in the boutique telling her a purse was too expensive for her? In reality, the clerk had offered to get her another purse, that wasn’t as expensive but she might like it all the same, and also offered to get the purse from the original price from the shelf for oprah. The clerk actually came forward. At the end of each US article was the statement oprah’s film was opening around the US at that time. Until then, I had no idea she had a movie opening.
This time, she was in England, promoting the opening of “the butler” in London and elsewhere. And she got her intended publicity.
The really ugly thing about this is not just the content of the statements, both times, but the fact she played the race card to get play for her opening movie. That aspect of the motive makes it really despicable.
She has history of this, dating back to 2005:
http://floppingaces.net/2013/08/14/oprah-has-a-brush-with-racism-with-each-new-movie-release/
Wonder if she’ll get a directorial role over death panels?
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