Loooookey here.Look who decided to show up to the Rutgers women's basketball team love fest.
Oprah Winfrey, the queen of the na ...
Sike.
But it would have been OK for me to say it because of my skin color, right?
No surprise, but Oprah was quiet until today regarding the Don Imus controversy.
Too little, too late in my opinion.
By the time the show aired, Don Imus had already been fired by MSNBC and CBS.
The hard work had already been done.
The last time I brought up the question of Oprah's whereabouts was following the Sean Bell NYPD shooting.
And all the Oprah fans flooded the comments section saying that she was in South Africa for the opening of her all girls school.
What's her excuse now?
Building another jail ... err school in Africa?
Personally, I'm tired of seeing Al and Jesse on my television screen whenever someone non-black just looks at a black person funny.
The one time the issue involves black women - - the most powerful woman in the world is silent.
Oh wait, she devoted less than seven minutes of her show to the Rutgers team.
The segment that followed the Rutgers women's basketball team - - a white couple who were her next door neighbors.
They got 15 minutes of play.
Thanks for checking in, O.
We will let you get back to helping the kids over in South Africa.
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By: Cecil Jones on 4/12/2007 6:17PM
Oprah took her time on this Rutgers girls thing for good reason. This is not a good thing for America or race and gender relations. We fought fire with fire and the whole country is burning about race and gender. At a time where we wanted to come together, we couldn't be further apart. A lynch mob led by the Feminists and the Race baiters blackmaled MSNBC and CBS to give Imus the economic death penalty. They said, "He has no right to live." He told a bad joke and got judged by his critics. This trial by jury isn't Constitutional and it destroys all free speech. How long will it be before the anger attacks Rosie, South Park, Hollywood, Fox, the Rappers, and Religion. If you say anything, you can be fired. That's not leadership and that's why Oprah should have spoken out against this. The Rutgers ladies got used.
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By: Gloria on 4/12/2007 6:48PM
Leave Oprah alone and go after the African-American entertainers who regularly use "bitches and hos" in the words of their songs. As a people, we dance to that music thereby giving tacit approval to the use of derogatory terms. There is absolutely no justification for the use of degrading lyrics that can be heard coming from the mouths of Black entertainers. Ophrah has put her money where her mouth is. How many other African-Americans can claim the same? And one does not have to be a millionaire to donate to a college, church or charity!
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By: margaret finch on 4/12/2007 7:53PM
another idiot, responding to another piece of relentless injustice to the african-american race. we will always reshape america because of our rainbow of colors,different textures of hairand different levels of education,unfortunately our fellow americans that is from every corner of the world and holes hidden with ignorance they will never understand the slave trade and how we got these tributes.Thanks to their ancestors for having sex with the beautiful women that they enslaved this is the end product GENES!!!!SORRYbut OPRAH has nothing to do with this little battle of BIG IGNORANCE ON THE SMALL MINDED FELLOW AMERICAN.
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By: sharon on 4/12/2007 6:58PM
i am a black woman and i hear these words all the time when we hear other people use the same words that we use every day it's a problem but these words are in our house every day. listened to 105 then write back.
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By: Tina on 4/12/2007 7:05PM
why does Oprah have to be held responsible for everything in the black race and jess and al didn't speak who would..... besides the Oprah bashing, how would you have liked the situation to be played out...?
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By: Fay McKinney on 4/12/2007 7:04PM
Why is everyone so quick to criticize Oprah when she doesn't do something "for the people". We only see what Oprah does when it's televised. We don't have any idea what she does for millions of black people IN and out the United States. Whatever is done, regardless of who does it, is never "too little too late". What about the people who haven't done anything at all. We tend to think it is Oprah's job to come to the defense of every black person who is ridiculed and that is not fair. Oprah is damned if she do and damned if she don't! What she did for the girls in Africa . . I don't care what any critic says, it was a good thing. WE put the name "African American" on the record books. WE claim we want to "go back to our roots". So now that she has actually done something for the girls IN Africa, we want to put her down . . . come on now. How many people have asked Oprah, "What have you done for us (U.S.) lately?" I am sure she doesn't go around bragging (too much) about what she has done for anyone. And it's probably because of all the negativity she has received that she feels she does not have to justify why she does what she does and for whom. Who else had the Rutger team on their show and how much time did THEY give them? (No, I haven't been watching - not that I don't care - don't get it twisted!) Oprah is not the only black, I mean, African American woman out there with money. Yes, she has more money than most, but why do we look for HER to do everything? She may have given the team less than 7 minutes of air time - that is what WE saw. We don't know what she did before or after the show. I do believe all of her shows are already scheduled. She did, at the very least, find that amount of time to do "something". We get in an uproar when someone non-white publically makes a "wrong move", if you will, but what about when WE do it or say something about each other. Who will come to our defense then? Oprah? She can't know everything there is to know about every black person in the United States desparately needing help unless she is informed. Let's stop criticizing our own and support each other. We all need to step up to the plate and stop "talking about it". You would be surprised at what Oprah is willing to do to help those she can help. I believe Oprah is going to get her reward back ten-fold when the girls in South Africa starts graduating from the academy. And with that new-found fortune, she will be able to help others. Put your bid in for the next school being built in "your neighborhood" here in these United States!
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By: Msluvaluva on 4/12/2007 7:37PM
Leave Oprah alone,damn! This isnt about Oprah. It's about what's right and what's wrong. She ain't the only high profile african american female that didnt come out and make a statement right away! Why does black media love hatin' on Oprah some much. What did Halle say, what did Janet Jackson say, what did angela basset say, what did Jada pinkett smith say, what did Falicia Rashad say, what did cecilie tyson say, what did mary jane bliege say, what did queen latifah say? Huh? What?
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By: Lynn on 4/12/2007 7:33PM
Marcus Marcus Marcus, I have two words that describe your mind set.......SHORT BUS!!!
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By: Tina on 4/12/2007 7:32PM
I am tired of everyone pulling the race cards! We are supposed to have freedom of speech in the USA but when a white man calls sistas "nappy headed hoes" all hell breaks loose! I mean I am not agreeing with what Imus said but it is a double standard in this society. It is all right for a black man/or woman to say it but if any other race says it ; it becomes a problem! Everyone is ready to run and jump the band wagon! Give me a break!
Imus said a bad joke and we just need to get over it! We need to just move on and worry about what is going on around our homes instead of worrying about some man that had every right to say what he said! He apologize; so let's move on from this!
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By: Earlie on 4/12/2007 7:33PM
It is okay to be talked about; but you do not have to be what a person says.
When someone talks about something as nieve as that, it definitely shows their ignorance and the ability they have to elaborate on things they wish they could.
Oprah is intelligent to know that those absurds things cannot make or break her.
Remember. we are all entitled to our own opinion this is America per say the freedom covered up land.
I must say that the young people making the music industry reich and richer is actually degrading themselves to say such things about females knowing some may have sisters, aunts, grandmothers and definitely a mother, otherwise they would not be here or alive.
Words do hurt; but they hurt the ones who use them, not the ones they talk about, because you can be somebody and not be what is said or whatever you are called.
Be gifted, forgive those, and continue to move on in life and take those negative things and grow with in
spirit and truth with the Lord.
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