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Video: WINFREY: Of course the problem is not solved. As long as people can be judged by the color of their skin, the problem’s not solved. As long as there are people who still… And there’s a whole generation — I said this for apartheid South Africa, I said this 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.
OPRAH Of course the problem is not solved. As long as people can be judged by the color of their skin, the problem’s not solved. As long as there are people who still… And there’s a whole generation — I said this for apartheid South Africa, I said this 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.
SNOPES COMMENTARY It’s valid, given the context, to infer that the majority of the people Winfrey was talking about are white, but invalid to infer that her remarks targeted all older white people, or only older white people. In other words, those accusing Winfrey of racism draw a false equivalence between “generations marinated in racism” and “all older white people.”
“He also underwent a voice stress analysis test in an attempt to see if he was lying, and he passed (indicating he was likely telling the truth).[60] Crime Scene Tech D. Smith photographed his injuries and hands and collected gunshot residue. Zimmerman's weapon was placed into evidence.[57][68] His clothes were also taken as evidence after his wife arrived with a change of clothes.[69]
Five hours later, Zimmerman was released. The police chief said that there was no evidence to refute Zimmerman's claim of having acted in self-defense, and that under Florida's Stand Your Ground statute, the police were prohibited by law from making an arrest.[70] The police chief also said that Zimmerman had a right to defend himself with lethal force.[71]”
SHAPIRO:“The word “bravery” has been used to describe Oprah Winfrey’s Golden Globes speech on Sunday evening — a speech seen as the potential launching point for Winfrey’s White House run. What, exactly, did Oprah do? She said that sexual harassment was bad, in front of a crowd of Hollywoodites shamed into saying the same after decades of participating in it……”
Oh, the courage! During Oprah’s speech (she of the multiple pictures kissing Harvey Weinstein),”
The case for and against Oprah running for Prez with comments by democrats Oprah 2020, explained
originally posted by: SkeptiSchism
a reply to: TheConstruKctionofLight
Well lets just look at the typical liberalista mentality. They've claimed for over 40 years that the problem is racism and they were in power for at least 1/2 that time, that's 20 years to fix all our problems. But they didn't.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over expecting different results.
However contentious and impolitic it may have been for Winfrey to claim that older generations steeped in prejudice will have to die before the problem of racism can be solved, the objection that it was racist of her to say so is absurd.
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.
I don't think it is absurd to assert that the problem of racism would be solved if the old people of a particular race die off.
originally posted by: carewemust
If Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders runs, Oprah won't stand a chance.
Latest Poll: www.newsweek.com...
IMO, all of these Oprah discussions are a waste of time at the moment..