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Oprah on Recent Protests: 'I'm Looking For Leadership'
People Magazine ^ | January 1, 2015 | Mary Green

Posted on 01/02/2015 3:29:07 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Oprah Winfrey has been watching the protests in Ferguson and New York like everyone else.

"I think it's wonderful to march and to protest and it's wonderful to see all across the country, people doing it," she tells PEOPLE exclusively.

But it's not enough to march, says Winfrey.

"What I'm looking for is some kind of leadership to come out of this to say, 'This is what we want. This is what has to change, and these are the steps that we need to take to make these changes, and this is what we're willing to do to get it.'"

David Oyelowo, who plays Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the film Selma adds, "And you saw that in the way black and white, young and old, came together to say, 'This is not okay.'"(continued)

(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Local News; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blacks; ferguson; looters; nypd; oprah; racism; selma; television
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The change has already been decided. They just need to stoke the flames a little more before they implement their “solution.”


21 posted on 01/02/2015 4:51:36 AM PST by Colorado Doug (Now I know how the Indians felt to be sold out for a few beads and trinkets)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She could march if she wants to keep those extra pounds off. Heard that is why Michelle doesn’t want her in the WH.


22 posted on 01/02/2015 4:59:17 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: exnavy

allies of the marchers and rioters now control much of the country. They could say it does them a lot of good. I think it has ruined the country, perhaps irreparably.


23 posted on 01/02/2015 5:02:33 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I ran the numbers for my state, GA. About 5% of the adult population has a concealed carry license. Not everyone, but a surprisingly large number, making for a statistically significant chance a random law-abiding citizen is carrying.

This makes me happy.


24 posted on 01/02/2015 5:06:59 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Oprah on Recent Protests: 'I'm Looking For Leadership'"

Says the queen of all female couch potatoes.


25 posted on 01/02/2015 5:29:27 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: exnavy
“Iwould like to have one of these flaming libs explain what exactly does protesting and marching do. For our nation or anyone.”

As I understand it it “raises awareness”. What that accomplishes I don't know.

26 posted on 01/02/2015 5:43:08 AM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
"What I'm looking for is some kind of leadership to come out of this to say, 'This is what we want. This is what has to change, and these are the steps that we need to take to make these changes, and this is what we're willing to do to get it.'"
All of that has already happened. Bad news for her and the leaders -- they aren't going to get anything beyond what they've already stolen.
28 posted on 01/02/2015 5:55:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey Oprah! Tell this to your “Homies:”

Rule #1: “Don’t break the Law.”

Rule #2: “If you Homies get caught breaking the Law, don’t resist arrest.”


29 posted on 01/02/2015 6:19:06 AM PST by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is the gift a man gives to himself." ~ Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oprah wouldn’t know “leadership” if it slapped her broad arse...she thought the current Whitehouse occupant was one didn’t she?


30 posted on 01/02/2015 6:48:03 AM PST by goodnesswins (2015)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When you are marching in support of dirtbag criminals your cause sucks..........


31 posted on 01/02/2015 6:55:40 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This is funny, because she is basically saying that “What anarchism needs are more leaders”.

...And to wear the anarchist uniform, recite the anarchist pledge and credo, sing the anarchist anthem, and march in the anarchist parade.

She forgets that these protesters have the discipline of banana slugs.


32 posted on 01/02/2015 7:18:42 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Bingo it’s what it’s all about the movement is bogus.


33 posted on 01/02/2015 8:00:05 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: Morpheus2009

I think a number of them do. For for obvious p.c. reasons they can’t bear to go against their peers. They must back the lying narrative of the last fifty years of racist whites oppressing and killing innocent, black people. A few black celebs like Charles Barkley aren’t afraid to speak the truth and lose favor in the black community. But he’s a rare one.


34 posted on 01/02/2015 9:13:58 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Race baiting bitch.


35 posted on 01/02/2015 9:16:51 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The reason blacks and whites worked together in the sixties was because the cause was majestic... Civil rights workers (black and white) fought for the rights of all people to be free to vote, to congregate, to worship without fear, to be able to eat in a restaurant or drink from a drinking fountain without fear of arrest.

The reason responsible blacks and whites are NOT working together now is neither group wants to 'come together' to fight for the rights of street thugs and gang bangers to get away with their crimes.

Opera needs to open her eyes. The thug Brown is NOT Rosa Parks... and the criminal Sharpton is NOT MLK...

36 posted on 01/02/2015 9:57:11 AM PST by GOPJ (White people in black neighborhoods should expect to be the victims of black crime.- Flaherty)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oprah raggin’ on the President again.


37 posted on 01/02/2015 10:11:33 AM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: 9thLife

But since it’s the ‘60’s all over again, we’ll get through it.

FIREHOSES..


38 posted on 01/02/2015 10:32:47 AM PST by AFret.
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think it’s awesome in theory. I admit I’ve grown a shade ambivalent over the years about actually being involved with a woman who has ready access to deadly force.


39 posted on 01/02/2015 3:01:36 PM PST by 9thLife (Barack Hussein Obama is one of them.)
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To: Westbrook
“I think it's wonderful to march and to protest and it's wonderful to see all across the country, people doing it,”
It's wonderful when thier not burning your house down opie. Its wonderful when they fight the po lice, burn all the shops in the area who once serviced the community, its wonderful to burn cars and homes, threaten police officers families, put a bounty on the head of law enforcement, its wonder opie its wonderful. Her fat black a## is thnkng for her again
40 posted on 01/02/2015 5:06:57 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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