46. @35:

"The irony here is...Oprah makes it sound so terrible that her grandmother worked for "white people". Like the "white people" took advantage of her somehow because she was black. Yet by employing all "white people", SHE isn't doing anything for the black people, they need jods too!"

I think you REALLY don't understand the point. These people weren't kind-hearted white people who treated their servants with love and respect. This was during the Civil Rights Movement! My grandmother was also a maid for white families in rural Mississippi during the Civil Right Movement. My dad can't even talk about her job without breaking down in tears because all he can remember is the white people calling her a "black n*****," a "monkey," etc., paying her an extremely low wage while making her scrub floors on her hands and knees for hours a day. In many cases blacks were basically treated as slaves during the Civil Rights Movement. My grandfather, for example, was a sharecropper (if you don't know the term, look it up), and he was ridiculed by whites as well as sometimes physically attacked by his boss while working 15 and 16 hour days without breaks. I'm not exaggerating, this is how black people were treated then. Back then being black and having white people working for you would have literally made news!

You guys really don't understand anything about how black people in the United States have been treated. All you understand is slavery and most of you are clueless on that as well, since I've actually read comments where white people say that blacks were "lucky" to be slaves because at least they weren't treated as bad as Jews during the Holocaust (!!!). Let me tell you something:

My father decided to be a doctor because when he was working in on a farm with his dad, he got bitten by a poisonous snake. His leg swelled up and his breathing because shallow. He almost died. Guess why? Because the white people he worked for would not let them in their car to get to the hospital. When he finally got to a hospital, it wouldn't serve him because he was black. Lovely Jim Crow laws. They had to travel to an out of the way hospital and my dad came within minutes of dying. All because he was black. And if you're white, the people who acted that way are your gradparents, uncles, aunts, etc. I'm not saying that all white people are racist but making comments like "Well we weren't here during slavery, it's not our fault" is just silly.

My dad is now distrustful of all white people and I don't blame him. I didn't mention that the KKK set fire to his house, and the fire killed his younger brother. Whites have treated him and his family like sh*t and discriminated against him for his entire life. Oprah had similar experiences living during the Civil Rights Movement and I doubt that she trusts or likes white people that much. She makes her billions off of you guys, because it's good business acumen, but she dosn't have to like you. If you don't like her, stop supporting her, but she'll still be worth a billion dollars so I doubt she'll care.

So stop your bitching and whining. White people pull the race card as much as blacks do. Just read any of the comments when TMZ writes a story about a black celebrity such as Beyonce or P.Diddy. White people call these people n****** and other racial slurs for no particular reason, then turn around and claim that there's no discrimintion in the world. You call us welfare queens but seem angry when you see stories of black people who are self-made millionaires and billionaires. We as black people don't have to kiss your asses when you obviously don't have any respect for us.

Posted at 6:13PM on Sep 25th 2006 by Common Sense

47. I think she should have mostly black people working for her, not white, they need the jobs just as much as white people. And most likely the jobs she has for people are very high paying; wouldn't she rather make sure that gets into the hands of more black people? I'm not saying she's racist, actually I think the complete opposite.

Posted at 6:40PM on Sep 25th 2006 by Stormy

48. When you're opposed to the content, do what I do, switch the station.

Posted at 6:43PM on Sep 25th 2006 by Natalie

49. Jen,
Even if Oprah herself was a horrible racist, how does that justify your racism. 2 wrongs, do not my dear make a right.

Posted at 7:08PM on Sep 25th 2006 by White girl

50. I agree with 14, listen to what Oprah was saying. She was remeniscing about what her grandmother would tell her when she was a kid. White folks haven't changed a bit. Any black that gets a lot of money sooner or later is going to be torn down by you white folks because they have more than you. You know exactly what she said on the radio, you just want to hear what the fuck you want to hear. TMZ your just as rascist as the rest.

Posted at 7:09PM on Sep 25th 2006 by Intelligent black guy

51. You know, money, just like alchohol, intensifies a person's character. If you were a nice gentle person from the beginning, when you're drunk, that will come out. But if you're something else, trust me, that will come out as well........Oprah is only doing what she's been doing, now even more because money's involved......

Posted at 7:40PM on Sep 25th 2006 by Oliver Goodloe

52. You all are funny with your comments on here..saying Oprah is racist and how shocked you all are. Anyone with some sense of what she came from and where she is now, would understand the context under which she is making these statements. That is all I will say. It is these ignorant statements that the majority of you all wrote, that makes this country still in the state it is in with race relations today...sad part is you all don't get it.

Posted at 7:42PM on Sep 25th 2006 by Kay

53. Oprah is rich. Oprah is successful..but the one thing she really wants will never be her...ever! She wants to be white...the clothes, the jewels, the houses, the hair-dos...all white....Maya does not do or dress like whites...because she is comfortable in her skin...Oprah hates the fat, the black, the memories....she should have blacks working for her...its very telling that she enjoys running those white honkies working for her ....it empowers her..I do not watch her..I find her suffocating...and Gayle is her lover and the sooner that she admits it ..the public will quiet down about it. President...Hah!

Posted at 8:31PM on Sep 25th 2006 by jan

54. I'll say this in response to comment #14...I love it when blacks come totally unhinged when white people stand up for themselves.it's hilarious the amount of HATRED that comes fomenting forth from bigoted blacks like "WHATEVER".
man,I can just imagine some of the sh*t you've thought about my race.
and don't come back at me with vice versa crap,sweetheart.it don't fly that way.
look in your mirror.

Posted at 8:35PM on Sep 25th 2006 by modd tymer

55. Only one African American on Oprah's staff??? Does Jesse Jackson know that? He might be able to squeeze million$ from Oprah in the name of diversity, something Oprah promotes publicly, but proudly shuns privately.

Posted at 8:54PM on Sep 25th 2006 by Dave

56. Well so what? Oprah earned every thing she has.
I also came from humble beginnings and would probably do
something similar.
By the way, how many people has Oprah helped? A bunch.

Posted at 8:56PM on Sep 25th 2006 by Sowhat?

57. The fact that Oprah has only white people working for her only shows she is a racists against her own "black; brothers & sisters. These are white collar jobs that probably pay extremely well, but OPRAH wouldn't trust a black man to handle any of the daily, probably very stressful duties. So Oprah, by not hiring ang blacks you are perpetuating the myth that all they are good for is cleaning houses and being busboys or crack dealers.

I haven't watched Oprah for over 15 years and I remember then, any guest with any know-how about any topic was usually white.

So who's the racist Oprah...I'm talking about your own sistah.

Posted at 8:59PM on Sep 25th 2006 by The Butler

58. she's just a hater all around. she's always been fat and ugly which has gave her the same type of personality.

she is smart and got some taste in one way. she won't have rappers on because they ARE NOT musicians. many are on work release from felony convictions.

let's also not forget. she is the podunk county, mississippi , watermelon eating champion 31 years running!

Posted at 9:01PM on Sep 25th 2006 by richard large

59. I'm an old white guy from GA but I like what # 20 Michelle said.

Hey she does stuff !

Nothing wrong with liking pudding or the stick thats dipped in it... doing your own thing. Stupid not to do what floats your boat.

Good for O and F U.

Tex

Posted at 9:02PM on Sep 25th 2006 by Tex

60. Oprah may not be "racist", but she is very PRO-black. Which is disappointing. I would have hoped that she would have risen above it all. I have noticed in the past when an "african-american" wins an award (like the Oscars) and she is in the audience, and the camera catches her reaction, she raises her clenched fist as if saying "yes another victory for us blacks" ( I am not white by the way). Also, she has funded that prestegious all-girl school in Africa (again a nobel thing, but very pro-black), I know that she is black... but of all people, I would have hoped that Oprah could rise above race. If she can't why are we so hard on the "rednecks"?

Posted at 9:07PM on Sep 25th 2006 by michael ramson