I continuously fail to understand why black people think Oprah caters to white women.

We call Oprah a sellout but say nothing about Maury, who continues to exploit our community.

Well Tamel, I think that a lot of our people might think that about Oprah by taking a look at her audience……they are mostly white women…the majority of guests on her shows…white…and, more than likely, none of her audience is from the Chicago area…..then there is her view on hip hop….

I personally don’t consider Oprah a sellout…..I think it’s just that people….yeah they mostly white…find her to be influential in their lives.

Now as far as Maury goes…LOL LOL…..he ain’t got no gun to these women’s heads, making them call him to find out which of the 9 dudes they slept with is the baby’s daddy…..we doin it to ourselves….

I do agree with everything else that you’ve said. I just had that same conversation with a man a week ago, about BW and handouts,not eating properly,and wasting time watching that garbage Maury Povich and Jerry Springer on TV!

I personally can understand and agree with a lot of what you are saying. But, if you give a black child a book and he/she throws it back to you, that means that, that child has been spoiled in this country. But that’s not just black kids- that’s white kids, native american kids, etc. I mean look at the whole situation. Oprah is on one of the most popular networks around. These same advertisers that are supporting her show, are the same one’s spoiling your kids. Look at the advertisements!!!! They promote
X-Boxes, Playstations, WII’s, etc. So that’s not fair to generalize black children. I’m sure OTHER kids would throw books right back at you as well. Those kids in South Africa, don’t have much over there to begin with, so of course they won’t take Oprah’s school for granted! Americanize that part of South Africa, spoil those kids with video games, and iPods and such (like they do here in America) and see how much they’ll appreciate education after that.
Oprah knows this.

I’m with you. Oprah is a credit to our race and some of us still come up with reasons to attack her. I’m pray she takes it with a grain of salt.