Oprah spoke of millions of lynchings taking place in the United States. On using the N-word: Lee Daniels: It’s a word I used quite a bit, until Oprah sat me down and talked to me about its power. Winfrey: You cannot be my friend and use that word around me. It shows my age, but I feel strongly about it. … I always think of the millions of people who heard that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree. Forest Whitaker: I don’t use the word. Never did. But according to the Tuskegee Institute, there have been 4,743 lynchings in the United States from 1882 to 1968. Hardly the million she referred to. A quarter of those lynchings were of white people and the vast majority done by Democrats.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 02:17:10 +0000
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