Excerpts:
"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." - Oprah Winfrey in her interview with BBC's Will Gompertz
So in Winfrey's view, it's older white people that are the problem, and once they die, racism ends.
Yet three months ago, she said of the George Zimmerman verdict, "It's ridiculous to look at that case and not to think that race was involved."
Zimmerman's 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 don't want to look at it that way, for they have a different agenda...
End quote.
Then she goes on as the Sheppard reports:
Quote:
"Just the level of disrespect. When the Senator yelled out, “You’re a liar.” Remember that? Yeah, I think that there is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs, and that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he’s African-American." - Oprah Winfrey to the question by Gompertz of the "treatment of Obama and the challenges he’s faced and some of the reporting he’s received is because he’s an African-American..?"
Some question, huh? You'd think Obama was the first president to ever have challenges and confrontations. Was Gompertz on another planet when George W. Bush was regularly being attacked by his opponents?
What Winfrey conveniently ignores is that she endorsed and campaigned for Obama BECAUSE he was an African-American. He wouldn't have gotten her support or been elected if he wasn't.
End quote.
~Noel Sheppard, News Busters
Interesting that Winfrey would make such a bold racist statement to an outside media outlet ---BBC--- and not to an American one. Makes me think of the "Dixie Chicks' " anti-Bush comments when outside our country (I can't recall but it may have even been in the UK) comments during their performance and she apologized for his decisions).End quote.
~Noel Sheppard, News Busters
The hypocrisy, again, of the liberals such as Winfrey is that they DO judge people based on skin color, not conduct of character (remember when Winfrey pulled the race card when she didn't get the customer service she deemed acceptable in a high-end store in Switerland?). The Martin/Zimmerman case is a classic example of how people think by skin color and not by CONDUCT OF CHARACTER (Martin was a punk 17 year old, who was a thief and smoked dope but was hailed as a 12 year old innocent boy who could do not wrong). As for Obama, let's remember that he is half white, and VERY liberal to the point of being a socialist/statist.
To vote or not vote for a person based on the color of their skin IS by definition, racist.
Put another way, to prove racism has diminished here in the US, people voted by race.
Get the hypocrisy? Its like someone judging another for being judgemental.
To call for accountability, dissent, vehement disagreement, with someone's worldview and actions as racist (when race has nothing to do with it), is to reveal the real racism within the person shouting "racist!" to anyone who disagrees with a black or even half-white person. Furthermore, to silence dissent shows the utter intolerance of such liberals like Oprah.
Redefining vehement disagreement as "disrespect" is hogwash and pitiful. There is much to reject in Obama because of his worldview, his fraud on the American people via his Obamacare law, and thus his known lying about it. That's only one issue. There's also the amnesty issue, government buying companies, dictating private financial instutions...the list is long on his anti-Constititutionalism. Who cares about his skin color?
Racists like Oprah can't stand to be challenged for their wrong views and actions, so all that's left is emotionalism by use of the race card.
Racism seems its perpetrated by Oprah herself. She ought to start with the woman in the mirror in dealing with racism.
"In 1911, former slave Booker T. Washington prophetically wrote about "black leaders" like Cleaver, Jackson and Sharpton: "There is (a) class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. … There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public." "
~Larry Elder
Another person who speaks to this issue is Dr. Walter Martin in his article, "Black Self-Sabotage".
Here's what Larry Elder said about racism as a major issue in America:
ELDER: Racism is not a major problem in America anymore, Piers. Racism is not a major problem in America anymore. The number one problem facing black people are the large number of black people born outside of wedlock, 75 percent. In 1960, 5 percent of all people in this country were born outside of wedlock. Fast forward, Piers, the number now is 43 percent.
You look at that for crime, dropouts, all that kind of stuff, it's connected. The other big problem facing black America, Piers, is the economy. One in two black men does not have a job and one of the heads of the commercial black caucus once said if a white person were in the White House we would be marching on the place because of the high unemployment, but we're talking about Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman as if it's the number one problem facing black America? It is a remotely on the top 10 list, Piers.
End quote.
Dr. Thomas Sowell and Dr. Walter Williams also say the same thing and have written and spoken on what Elders said in his above quote, extensively. A good place to start is Sowell's book "Black Rednecks and White Liberals".
Now, Black leader Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson called on Oprah to either prove her racist claims or shut up. Her racism is doing more harm than good and is quite dishonest, Peterson states:
“I’m calling on Oprah to back up her claims and give proof of blacks being terrorized by whites. She can’t – because it’s not happening.”
“To the contrary, it’s black thugs who viciously attack and commit crimes against whites,” Peterson said. “Black criminals are also killing other blacks in cities like Chicago (Oprah’s hometown). Last year, the city had 500 black-on-black murders. When will Oprah talk about black racism and terror?
Peterson said successful blacks such as Winfrey, Obama and others “who race-bait are doing a disservice to the black community.”
~WND
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