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...
Oprah Winfrey, the billionaire victim.
Unfortunately, not yet thanks to the socialist indoctrination of Big Education and Big Entertainment/Media.
That’s the “3 Billion Dollar Victim”
apologies to Col. Steve Austin...
Well, dahling, I can tell you that racism is rampant in Switzerland. I was ordering a late night snack of champagne and caviar at the Dolder Grand and the boy actually asked me to sign the room charge! I mean, my people do that, doncha know! He never would have asked a white woman to sign her room charge. I mean, I was ordering caviar and had an entourage!
Indians have institutionalized discrimination via their caste system. They are hardly in a situation to complain about racism.
If America was as raciest as they claim Oprah would not be so rich..
Just think about the biggest advertising icons of last 30 years...
Michael Jordan
Tiger Woods
Lebron James
If America was truly racist, companies would NOT be hiring these blacks to push their products.
Is Switzerland overrun with poor black women on their Obamaphones?
If an alien came to earth and watched US television, he would assume America is 30-40% black.
If we accept what minorities say that life is extremely difficult for minorities, then why would white people want to allow their descendants to become minorities in America?
anyone have a guess what the comission would be on a $38,000 bag?
show a lesser bag and refuse to show a more expensive bag just to get a lesser comission?!?
can u imagine the uproar if Ann Romney or Sarah Palin had even asked to look at a handbag that cost 35,000 bux?
the media would have had a cow if it had only cost 3500 bux!!!! “Imagine the children that could have been fed/clothed/whatever with that $$$.”
Pure BS
Last night I was flipping channels, and I came across Ted Baxter talking about this. He said Winfrey’s critics are wrong, because there IS racism in society, and she was just relating her experience.
Then he noted that the shop clerk was denying the accusation, and in the next breath called her a “moron” for mistreating Winfrey. In other words, he believes Oprah is telling the truth and the clerk is lying.
O’Reilly thinks he knows everything, but in reality the thick-skulled idiot doesn’t know enough to pour pee out of a boot.
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Exactly.
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I know two women who adore her, and Ellen D.. It's impossible to say anything even remotely negative about either without these two women staunchly defending them. "How can you not like Ellen/Oprah?!"
Oy.
Her audience is even worse.
... with directions printed on the heel.
LOL, true dat
Switzerland: Not a slave to political correctness...
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