Posted on 08/05/2020 4:34:39 AM PDT by gattaca
Huh?
Oprah Winfrey said on video that white privilege and whiteness give white people a leg up over people of color in all situations.
In a recent seminar about what it means to be white, the self-made billionaire told white people that they're racist even when they might not realize that they are racist.
Her white guests agreed.
What are the details? In a recent episode of "The Oprah Conversation," Winfrey and NFL linebacker Emmanuel Acho spoke to several white guests who admitted their racism.
During the episode — titled "Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man: Part 1" — Winfrey said, "There are white people who are not as powerful as the system of white people — the caste system that's been put in place — but they still, no matter where they are on the rung, or the ladder of success, they still have their whiteness."
"[Whites have a] leg up," she insisted. "You still have your whiteness. That's what the term 'white privilege' is. It means that whiteness still gives you an advantage, no matter. It is the fundamental issue."
During the discussion, Winfrey spoke with her white guests, who discussed their own personal come-to-Jesus moments in admitting that they, too, might just be racist.
One man, Seth, told Winfrey that he must be racist, because he's never been actively anti-racist.
"You've become woke during this period, and realized in that awakening that you are racist, right?" Winfrey asked Seth. "I just want to know how that happened."
Seth responded by admitting that he's apparently been a racist his whole entire life, but only now does he realize how.
"I was born in the '70s," he began. "I was born and raised in Manhattan. I've always considered myself to be liberal. Now I'm not only a friend of people of color, but also an advocate ... but this movement over the last month has been powerful. ... I realized that I couldn't be not racist. I realized that I either was a racist or an anti-racist, and I wasn't — I'm not — an anti-racist."
One woman, Lisa, told Winfrey that she — a Californian — said that even she has "unconscious biases that white people have."
'If the white person is your problem, only the white person can be your solution' Acho responded by pointing out that white parents should help bear the burden of solving racism.
"Here's what I told my friends with their white children," he began. "I said 'Y'all live in a white cul-de-sac, in a white neighborhood, in a white city, in a white state. If you were not careful, your children will live their whole white life, and at 26, 27, they'll end up being a part of the problem, because you just let them and allowed them to live a completely white, sheltered, and cultureless life."
Acho added, "As a black person, white people — the proverbial phrase of white people — they run America. CEOs, Fortune 500 companies, execs, ownership. They run America. Not an individual white person, but collective white people."
He concluded, "I firmly believe that if the white person is your problem, only the white person can be your solution."
Oprah is a liberal fascist Obama-ite.
And likely a pedophile to boot.
She can eff herself straight to perdition.
Her black nationalist socialist-fascism is designed to subjugate white people and place her race in a totalitarian “revlooshun” take over. The Color Purple has just become The Color Schmurple.
every human has a bias or prejudice in some area or another, some built on experience, some from upbringing.....that includes Ms Oprah and leaders of BLM. EVERYONE!
Hey Rich Hippo....YOU are a RACIST....YOU chose a Black Man (Obama) over a White WOMAN (Hilliary)!!! Physician, HEAL THYSELF!
Oprah did NOT give away CARS or anything else....the MANUFACTURERS gave them away!!
When is she going to admit that she is a pedophile and set up kids with Harvey Weinstein. Just asking.
Proof that even an idiot can get rich in the US. What a great country!
Thanks much. I’ll check it out. Laughter is good. As I said on the recent family vacay to Oceanside CA July 21-31...
There is something to be said about drinking great beer (Pliny the Elder for President 2020...that’s what the can says) dozing off on an outdoor patio to the sound of ocean waves and children laughing.
WOW
Babbling by stupid, delusional people. Affects this White person not at all.
“Hey Rich Hippo....YOU are a RACIST....YOU chose a Black Man (Obama) over a White WOMAN (Hilliary)!!! Physician, HEAL THYSELF!”
: ) Elite Food-Privileged
You can always self identify as a woman. My half brother (still waiting for the DNA test) did.
I am not sure if we self identify as another race. We should be able to; if we can identify as another gender.
Oprah name one nation in Africa or the Caribbean where you could have been a popular media maven billionaire? In fact what other nation in the entire world? Zilcho- not even close but here in the ‘racist’ USA.
As a white Caucasian I’m very happy when I see black or other minorities achieve success through talents and hard work. It means America is truly a land of opportunities and not the lying BS leftist tripe that there is racist oppression full of victims.
...it is the white privilege I do not get.
Seeking privilege for your progeny is a good thing. They are simply trying to make it appear bad. I won’t play.
White privilege is just one privilege. And let us be frank, it only works in some places. It’s not a “thing” in South Africa.
I am happy for the privilege my children were given, be it race, income, work ethic, geographic location, you name it.
Meanwhile, maybe these black folks should celebrate their black privilege. Instead of whining about what others have done with their privilege, they should exploit their own:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_7yrwYAYw0
“ Oprah is black and can’t get over it”.
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Yeh, appears Whiteness Envey is endemic amongst the Black population....
I’m opening my own LLC.
I wonder if I can legally be a Black Female.
I would win more contracts...
Funny, from people that condemn racism, everything is race related. They look at everything through racial glasses.
I needed to drop about 15 lbs and went to Weight Watchers last year. Lost the weight, turned around and gain a lot of it back.
Going back to Weight Watchers?
Not a chance. Oprah got involved (may be CEO of it ), changed the name to WW.
No way would I support anything she is attached to.
She certainly enjoyed turning herself white with the wigs, skin lightening and nose job.
It’s not bizarre, Oprah and her buddies, Obama, etc are acidic racists who aren’t respectable people.
Haha! You didn’t count on the awesome Power of affirmative action. Pretty clearly Oprah owes her status to the guilt of a white, male, old, Chicago station manager. But for that, she would be one of a thousand tv chicks who aged out of the studio.
I can’t imagine her being able to get away with half or even a quarter of what she did and said during those glorious times for her in the late ‘80s thru the mid ‘90s if the internet (and sites like the Media Research Center and Free Republic) were around back then.
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