Posted on 03/21/2005 7:11:39 AM PST by gopwinsin04
American TV host Oprah Winfrey is ditching the high life to star in a poverty striken TV reality series.
The 51 year old media mogul, with an estimated net worth of 300 million, has agreed to live a life of poverty in the hard hitting documentary.
Winfrey will reside in a high rise apartment in a notoriously tough Chicago, Illinois, neighborhood for one month. The series plans to highlight America's inner city housing 'crisis.'
A spokeswoman for Harpo Productions says that Oprah has ' Interviewed just about every major celebrity and done shows on almost every topic imaginable. But now she intends to tackle really tough, serious issues, putting herself right on the front line.
But to ensure Winfrey's safety, she will be shadowed by security guards during her stay. But the spokesperson adds, 'In every other respect she will have to fend for herself, just like many people who have to live in these substandard conditions.'
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Unless you decide to, like, learn a skill, get a job, and support yourself, as (formerly) poor Americans have done for hundreds of years.
It's disappointing that Oprah, who has achieved phenomenal success through her own abilities and effort, doesn't show other people the courtesy of assuming that *they* have abilities they could use to succeed through their own effort. It's just elitism: "I could do it, but those folks don't have what it takes."
Took the words right out of my mouth. These people are so superficial.
Condescending, elitist, hypocritical and very ugly.
Leni
Do all of her neighbors in the housing project get a free car?
LOL!!
Oprah wants to show that she is 'down' with the hood after all of these years...could be a big shock to her!
I hate empty liberal gestures like this. One of the Baldwin twerps did this a few years ago. He stayed in a homeless shelter for one night. Big deal. If you really cared about the homeless, you would have invited him to stay in your mansion.
Give a "gansta" a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a "gansta" to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
If she has to survive on the diet the poor do
(potatoes, butter, greasy foods,etc.) that
broad ass will make a rapid reapperance
Actually you're 100% correct.
The CHA (Chicago Housing Authority) is tearing down most of the old hi-rises right and left and there is a definite housing shortage for the poor (mostly black) in Chicago.
(Why they're poor is whole different matter. But the fact remains they're running of of places to live)
Build a man a fire, and you keep him warm for a day.
Set a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life.
She's risking her money and reputation on the venture, not government money. Let's see what the production details are and how it all turns out. It may have some value or it may not. Maybe it will show the current government bureaucracy to be inefficient and counter-productive and lead to a massive movement to change how we deal with poverty. She may become the new Freeper hero!....well, ok, maybe it will at least make her even more money.
Were they the ones from NY city? I caught the end of a show with a family from NY and they turned one of the bedrooms into a city landscape with little lights along the picture of the bridge. It was pretty cool, I still don't know how they do that in a week.
I know normal people don't want to live there, but remember the domocrat mantra to the innercity folks. They can't help themselves, only the government can. How many people are waiting for that to happen? Every suburb has a trailer park, and many of them aren't that expensive to live in. At least that would get them away from the schools.
Like Chris Rock says, "you get more respect coming out of jail than college in the innercity. Yeah you got a fancy degree, but let me ask you this. Can you kick my a$$?"
Slummin'
Must have been before she gave away all those cars...
Yeah, I think it will give some insight into the problem. Who knows, maybe it will cause Oprah to become a slumlord.
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