Twitter critics have a billion-dollar bone to pick with Oprah Winfrey.
The 66-year-old media mogul has been labeled a hypocritical “fraud” following the latest installment of her Apple TV+ series, “The Oprah Conversation,” featuring former NFL star and race activist Emmanuel Acho.
Acho, 29, who also hosts the web series “Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man,” joined Winfrey for a two-part episode, which included a segment inviting non-black viewers to ask difficult questions about racism and white privilege.
“Not all white people have power,” said one guest. “There’s plenty of poor, working-class white people. But I think that when we group all of white people together and we don’t recognize the fact that there’s a lot of white people that struggle, and it’s a different struggle as you mentioned because they’re not streaming upstream let’s call it …”
They continued, “I think that if we’re gonna come together and really attack racism and the inequities that are in this country and are in this world, that it’s important not to group all white people.”
Winfrey responded, “There are white people who are not as powerful as the system of white people — the caste system that’s been put in place. But they still, no matter where they are on the rung or ladder of success, they still have their whiteness.”
The veteran broadcaster also said white people have a “leg up.”
“You still have your whiteness. That’s what the term ‘white privilege’ is. It means that whiteness still gives you an advantage, no matter,” she said.
Winfrey’s current net worth stands at $2.6 billion, according to Forbes, and conservative pundits were quick to weaponize that fact on Twitter following her show.
“And now why is Oprah, maybe the richest black woman in the world, trying to shame white people as privileged? Miss Winfrey, you are the personification of WHITE PRIVILEGE!,” said Irene Armendariz-Jackson, a Republican congressional candidate from Texas.
Said columnist Wayne Depree, “Billionaire Oprah is now shaming white people for all their ‘easy success’ in life.”
Conservative media head Todd Starnes said, “I pray for the day that America becomes a nation where someone like Oprah will be able to become a billionaire.”
Sen. Ted Cruz called the discussion “utter, racist BS.”
2A activist JT Lewis asked, “How did Oprah make 2.6 billion dollars if America is so racist?”
Representatives for Winfrey have not returned The Post’s request for comment.
Despite her billions, it was announced in July that the monthly print edition of “O” Magazine would come to an end after a 20-year run on newsstands, as a result of poor sales following the onset of the coronavirus pandemic.
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1 comment:
I think many blacks have a problem being black. Are they jealous of whites because they don't like their own skin? How many blacks actually know whites well to judge them? In many cases they have the problem not whites. They believe whites have it easy. They got it wrong. Everyone struggles in this world,even whites.
If Opra and the other wealthy blacks she knows cared, including Obama they would have stopped all the black on black killing but did nothing. What do they do is go after the police this way they can sue and get millions of dollars from the city. They don't go after the black drug dealers because they can't sue them. They are the real hypocrites and they use black privilege.
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