A Race Obsessed Billionaire
- Oprah could go down the road pioneered by Bill Cosby and do productions about intact and educated Black middle class families. Instead she beats the drum of evil white racism to generate cold hard cash.
Entertainment Weekly announced Thursday that for her cable channel OWN, Oprah Winfrey is developing a two-part miniseries about the 1921 Oklahoma Riots that claimed the lives of up to 300 people. A New York Times story on the little-known historical event describes "a mob of white men" with "guns firing" burning a "once-thriving black community … to the ground."
The Times reports that although the event occurred over 90 years ago "efforts to secure recognition and compensation have produced a mixed record of success."
No uplifting Cosby Show productions are coming from Oprah. Only stories about racism. |
Oprah's mini-series will be titled "Tulsa" and star Octavia Spencer, who won a Supporting Oscar for "The Help." She will play a journalist investigating the race riots reports Breitbart News.
Late last year the politically and racially-polarizing Oprah produced a racial uproar after she used her national and worldwide platform to accuse a nameless Swiss shop girl of racism. The story blew up to a point where the country of Switzerland felt it needed to apologize.
After the shop girl went public and accused Oprah of outright lying, rather than show the kind of outrage you would expect after being a branded a liar by someone you believe was racist, the billionaire media mogul backed off her claim.
In the aftermath, many believed Oprah had exaggerated or outright manufactured a race hoax to gin up publicity for her struggling television network and new movie, "The Butler."
Once her story started to come apart, though, the mainstream media was as eager as Oprah to drop the matter. But questions remains unanswered even if one of the most powerful women in the world is never pressed to answer them.
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Oprah Winfrey and "Racism." Winfrey currently lives on "The Promised Land", her 42-acre estate (above) with ocean and mountain views in the 92% Anglo community of Montecito, California. . Oprah worked hard for what she has and was rewarded with the love and respect of people of all races. But Oprah feels she must beat the racism drum to gain publicity and make money at the box office. .. Winfrey also owns a house in Lavallette, New Jersey; an apartment in Chicago, an estate on Fisher Island, Florida, a house in Douglasville, Georgia; a ski house in Telluride, Colorado; and property on Maui, Hawaii and Antigua. |
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