Oprah: Generations of White People “Just Have to Die”
January 16, 2018
EXCERPT
During the BBC interview, she was asked whether some Americans opposed the policies of then-President Obama because they were racist, according to the Washington Examiner.
That little demagogic softball was de rigueur for interviewers at the time, so the line of questioning certainly wasn't anything unique. Oprah's answer, however, was definitely of a singular nature.
“Of course the problem (of racism) is not solved,” Oprah said:
“As long as there are people who still — there's a whole generation — I say this, you know, I said this, you know, for apartheid, South Africa, I said this for my own, you know, for my own community in the South — there are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.”