Why the castigation?  Does it have something to do with this new school she opened in Africa?  I'm asking because of something I watched on TV recently.  During a news conference at the opening of the school, somebody actually had the guts to ask her why there were no white kids in the school.  Not sure what her reply was.  I think it was a fair question. 

An MSN story says it is a school of "152 mostly black students", so there may be some whites as well. There was a ceiling of around $8000 annually for family income, and an interview was required.

Roker's remark made it plain: criticizing "the Oprah" as Rush calls her, (because she is so much more than just a person) is off-limits. At least it was HER money this time. Remember when there was a big deal about her "giving" several hundred audience members a new car? It turned out that she had talked Pontiac into donating them.

A website called TMZ. com has a story in the issue. Says that Oprah's answer to why Africa instead of here is that if you ask American kids what they want, they will say sneakers or an IPOD, but in Africa they ask for uniforms so they can go to school. I also heard a discussion about her reason for the decision on the Rush Limbaugh program yesterday, but not enough of it to get the details.

Can anyone imagine Willard Scott saying anything more controversial than Macy's parade floats are pretty?

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on.

- Arabian Proverb

Yesterday, Sean Hannity expressed comments that would be supportive of Oprah as well. She can spend her money however she wants.

Roker is also normally a non-player in lib-bias, so I really fail to see the connection here. I don't see the point of this particular NB post. Oprah's charitable contribution was not political in a partisan sense IMO. 

-PJ

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You can't criticize Oprah; she's a woman, a black and a liberal.  What the heck were you thinking?

Not criticizing Oprah here, as it is her money, and she can do with it as she pleases, but, I wonder how long it would take Oprah and Al (Roker and Sharpton) and Jesse, et al, to label me as a "racist" if I took several million dollars (which I don't have), hired a lawyer to take the charter for the United Negro College Fund and insert "Caucasian" every place that charter has "Negro", and started the United Caucasian College Fund.  Or, put a want ad in the newspaper with the phrase "Caucasian preference exercised" instead of "Indian preference exercised".

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

*The use of the words racism and sexism are used as defined by liberal and super-lib social and political commentators and activists but don't represent their actual meaning since even their true definitions are politically incorrect.

With Oprah Winfrey, what you see is what you get, someone who is a racist and a sexist. Oprah, who vigorously campaigns for a color blind society, a culture where one's racial or ethnic identity as well as their gender is almost inconsequential in everyday matters and left mainly for an emphasis on familial banners and genealogical nostalgia, has decided to invest in a school for black girls. Yes, a school for black girls.

Apparently, in Oprah's mind, these disadvantaged girls need special blackness training and all the proper accoutraments that should sorround the female black mind. You see to Oprah, black girls are more valuable and more important than say...the daughters of the white girls that heavily populate her audience, or the hispanic moms that think she is supports them as a minority.

Don't kid yourself for a minute. Oprah likes her white friends and her white female audience, who do you think pays the bills? By keeping strong white associations Oprah is able to psychologically convince herself she is one of them while her typical duplicit personality keeps the black half of Oprah alive and well, often seen in her regressive personality which she reserves when hosting an all black or heavily populated black guested program. She is a chameleon on purpose and not by accident. She cannot bring herself to fully be the black woman she is, instead she exists shamefully so pretending to respect and admire all cultures and lust for diversity and unity. Ha Ha.

In the end Oprah shows us what Oprah is, a bigot. Instead of investing her money in a school where races and ethnicities of all types and boys and girls are mixed and taught the principles of integration she professes to want for all of the world, particularly her own, she does the very opposite. Oprah instead finances a school for black girls. Unable to realize that disadvantaged girls will remain quite disadvantage the longer they are segregated, regardless of their education and unable to realize that there are many whites disadvantage, even in South Africa, Oprah can only see through her bigotted glasses where she must rescue herself once again.

Oprah's narcissism knows no boundaries and is financed by gullible viewers of her program and those that purchase her magazine. Oprah, as I said, is rescuing herself once again and attempting to right whatever wrongs she thinks has been done to her. Natural that one sympathizes with those suffering as they have in the past but hypocritical for Oprah to have failed miserably to have risen above such a selfish persepctive in life, one that she demands so ardently from those she takes issue with both socially and politically.

Of course these are just my opinions and not even spellchecked very well ; ) But hey, maybe I could attend Oprah's school and learn...oh wait I am the wrong race and gender...oops I forgot it is a segregated school that keeps other genders and races out for the benefit of a specific gender and race.

If you claim to be a conservative, please don't disgrace yourself and conservatism by thinking and arguing like a liberal.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to split with some of my conservative friends on this one.

I think Oprah is doing a praiseworthy thing.

Talk of racism is pretty idiotic. Especially as the photo-op I saw had at least one white girl in it.

A couple of random points, because I haven't the time to compose a fully realized response to various criticisms I've picked up from many posters I do respect.

1. There's plenty of evidence that both boys and girls benefit from same-sex school education.

2. Africa in dire need of young women educated to a high standard. To me, it is far better for an individual like the Big O to concentrate of developing a small number high caliber kids who then can become leaders in their society. From small acorns mighty oaks grow. If, and that's my if, they are kept well away from the quasi-Marxist, anti-capitalist crap that has done so much harm to Africa.

3. The most interesting aspect (to me) is the seeming Bill Cosbyization of the Oprah. Maybe her decaration that she has had it with the lack of ambition and sneering "I ain't gonna get no edukashon cos that's whitey" in many black communities, will have a posisive affect in the U.S.

4. I've seen plenty of documentaries and news reports of life in rural Africa. One thing that's always affected me is seeing barefoot kids, in mudhut schools DESPERATE and keen to learn. Anyone investing their own money in helping fulfill that ambition gets kudos from me.

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