Posted on 08/15/2013 10:21:28 AM PDT by Starman417
Oprah Winfrey is promoting a new movie in which she appears. Coincidentally, a few days ago Oprah shared a fable about how America still is racist- it takes place in Switzerland.
Oprah Winfrey insisted that she WAS a victim of racism and she experienced what 'people of black or brown color experience daily', in an interview with a Swiss newspaper published today. Oprah, one of the world's richest women, revealed on Entertainment Tonight last week that she felt discriminated against when a sales assistant in a luxury Zurich Boutique refused to show her a $38,000 handbag designed by Tom Ford and named after Jennifer Aniston. 'I was asked if I am confronted with racism,' she told Swiss daily Blick in an interview in Los Angeles on Monday night but not published until today.
This experience wasn't obvious- it was subtle:
'My answer - not in the same way as others because I am so well known. Except on Twitter, no-one dares confront me with the N-word. I feel discrimination in a different way.'My antenna receives an underlying "what is going on here?" I called Zurich an example, because it was happening.'
Asked if she was being 'particularly sensitive,' she said: 'No! I know of no black man who was never stopped by police because of his skin color, or persecuted, but it's different for women. What I've experienced in Switzerland happened only once before in my life.
The saleswoman in question has a different memory of the event:
The sales assistant who refused to show U.S. talkshow billionaire Oprah Winfrey a luxury handbag costing nearly £25,000 claims the superstar lied about what happened in the luxury Swiss boutique where she works. Speaking anonymously to Sunday newspaper SonntagsBlick, the Italian bag lady said she felt 'powerless' and in the grip of a 'cyclone' after Winfrey went on TV in America to claim she had been the victim of racism. Winfrey was in Switzerland in July when she walked into the Trois Pommes boutique in Zurich looking for a handbag to match the outfit she was going to wear to old friend Tina Turner's wedding. She claims the sales assistant refused to show her the black crocodile leather bag because - seeing a black woman - she automatically assumed she would not be able to afford it. Now the saleslady has hit back, stating: 'I wasn't sure what I should present to her when she came in on the afternoon of Saturday July 20 so I showed her some bags from the Jennifer Aniston collection.'She looked at a frame behind me. Far above there was the 35,000 Swiss franc crocodile leather bag. 'I simply told her that it was like the one I held in my hand, only much more expensive, and that I could show her similar bags. 'It is absolutely not true that I declined to show her the bag on racist grounds. I even asked her if she wanted to look at the bag.
Then the saleswoman makes a great point:
The saleslady went on: 'This is not true. This is absurd. I would never say something like that to a customer. Really never. Good manners and politeness are the Alpha and the Omega in this business. 'I don't know why she is making these accusations. She is so powerful and I am just a shop girl. 'I didn't hurt anyone. I don't know why someone as great as her must cannibalize me on TV. 'If it had all taken place as she claimed, why has she not complained the next day at the wedding of Tina Turner with Trudie Goetz, my boss? She was there also at the Turner wedding as a guest. I don't understand it.
Curiously, this has happened before - accompanying another racially themed movie release:
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
She’s a talentless fraud.
The HORROR!
Oprah was NOT.SHOWN.A.PURSE..~!!!
Can you belive what a nightmare ordeal it must have been?
Those poor negroes that were hung by the (democrat) KKK have no idea how lucky they were to get off so easy...
Loud and relentless ridicule is the only anecdote
She was in The Color Purple - did she do a racism thing then? Just wondering.
Sorry, Oprah has played the race card and is now on my DILLIGAFF (Do I Look Like I Give A Flying F...) list.
Shove it, Oprah.
how arrogant these "beaten" down people get when they are the rich and powerful....how condescending...how smug...how selfish...how self centered....
Racism in America is so bad it’s popping up in Switzerland! LOL
And America take note, the shop owner is not backing down and is supporting her employee. Which is why The Oprah now looks stupid, she’s not used to be called on her BS.
That covers all the bases on Oprah...she gets more stupid all the time.
She’s poster girl for ‘Stuck on Stupid’!
Yes, absolutely correct!
“The New York Daily News cited sources close to Winfrey as saying the talk show host was first rebuffed by a clerk and then a store manager. The Daily News reported Winfrey had gone to the store to buy a watch for singer Tina Turner, her dining partner that night.”
Funny thing. She was in Switzerland for Tina Turners wedding. Maybe Tina is the common theme!
I was in Beverly Hill with my wife several years ago. We stopped in Tiffani’s to look at jewelry. The racist people that worked there would not let my wife try on a 5 carrot diamond ring. And we are both white. I should have filed a lawsuit for discrimination. They probably would have given us the ring then.
The days of ‘white guilt’ are over.
She has gone the way of Jesse and Al.
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Americans of Indian ancestry are brown and you almost never hear them complain about racism. Instead, they stay out of trouble and stress academic achievement and entrepreneurialship. That could be why Americans of Indian ancestry are, on average, among the most successful ethnic groups, and why they don't seem to encounter this mythic institutional racism as much as other brown people.
Her audience is so stupid that they will buy anything she pushes.
It’s just comical to hear someone carrying a purse costing more than most people’s CARS crying ‘victim’. But then, it’s a daily thing with people driving Escalades to shop for steak and lobster while using other people’s money.
Victims—aren’t we all.
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