I made a comment about Oprah the other day and this is what the comment was based on..... Gompertz of the BBC interview with Oprah Winfrey GOMPERTZ: Are you saying problem solved? WINFREY: I’m saying problem not solved. I’m saying that, you know, that’s the beauty of a film like “The Butler,” and it’s the beauty of a film like “12 Years a Slave,” and it’s the beauty of what we’re seeing on stage with “Scottsboro Boys” is that it allows people to see where the root of the problem started. It allows people to see, “Oh, that’s where it all started, this is how far we’ve come, and now this is how much farther we need to go.” Of course problem is not solved. You know, as long as people can be judged by the color of their skin, problem’s not solved. As long as there are people who still, there’s a whole generation – I say this, you know, I said this, you know, for apartheid South Africa, I said this for my own, you know, community in the south - there are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die. So in Winfreys view, its older white people that are the problem, and once they die, racism ends. Yet three months ago, she said of the George Zimmerman verdict, Its ridiculous to look at that case and not to think that race was involved. Zimmermans only 30 years old and is Hispanic. It is patently absurd to suggest that racism is caused by old white people when racism and religious bigotry cut across all generations and ethnicities. But folks such as Winfrey dont want to look at it that way, for they have a different agenda: Read more: newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/11/15/oprah-racists-have-die-racism-end#ixzz2m4tbjPpO
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 22:55:20 +0000
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