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Fear Not Oprah, Tyrese Has Your Back!

Posted Mar 16th 2007 3:58PM by TMZ Staff

Tyrese Attention TMZ readers: Bizarro press release alert!

Not that anyone asked, but actor/model/rapper Tyrese aka Black Ty has issued a statement in defense of Oprah Winfrey's South African school. Earlier this week, reports surfaced claiming that Oprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy for Girls was too strict with its students. While the Big O already issued a statement denying the allegations, Tyrese has gone ahead and thrown his fitty cents into the Winfrey PR mix.

Tyrese's statement reads, "There is a staggering amount of millionaires and billionaires out in the world that do nothing to effect positive change within society. The fact that Oprah Winfrey took a monumental step to create a school in South Africa for the betterment of African children rather then (sic) just speak of change is commendable. The bible says -- 'No good deed shall go unpunished,' (sic) and there are many critics out in the world turning up negative stones (sic) to find a flaw in this wonderful gift donated to South Africa by Oprah Winfrey. I stand with Oprah in the fight for change and positive world reform and I hope that people realize there will always be struggle and without struggle there is no progression. (sic) Please leave her alone and let the blessings she is offering outshine the public scrutiny she is facing."

Oprah can sleep peacefully knowing the guy from "2 Fast 2 Furious" is on her team!

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1. Oprah has a big bank account as well as a big heart - she can do no wrong in my book !!!!!!!

Posted at 5:25PM on Mar 16th 2007 by Just a thought

2. I love what Oprah is doing and I support her 100%. Its people like Oprah who make the world a better place. And shame on anyone for criticising her for trying to do something positive.

If they were trying to make a contribution, they wouldn't have time or energy to criticize her!

Posted at 5:38PM on Mar 16th 2007 by Tammy

3. AMEN Tyrese! I wish those that made tons and tons of money would give back like Oprah instead of building huge houses and buying 20 cars just for show...do something worth while! Don't let the money go to waste...

Posted at 5:31PM on Mar 16th 2007 by Shannon

4. Yeah-the Oprah story was over blown by American and a very, very racist South African elite media-I know the reason why they started trashing Oprah and has someting to do with not appeasing a certain race of people in S. Africa.

Posted at 9:16PM on Mar 16th 2007 by Wacko Jackovitz

5. "There is a staggering amount" is the correct grammatical use. "Amount " is singular. I don't know why TMZ is faulting Tyrese on his use of words. It's not like he wrote it all Lindsay Lohan-style. The one major mistak was using "then" instead of "than," but other than that, you're totally making a mountain out of a molehill.

Posted at 6:04PM on May 8th 2007 by Chris Finley

6. "No deed goes unpunished" is not from the bible.

Posted at 5:42PM on Mar 16th 2007 by djjord

7. I HAVE TO AGREE WITH TY!! AND I DONT UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LOOK AT WHAT OPRAH HAS DONE AS A BAD THING! SHE IS GIVING TO THE LESS FORTUNATE, THEREFORE ITS HER MONEY AND SHE CAN DO WITH IT AS SHE PLEASES! SHE'S THE ONE THAT HAS WORKED HARD FOR WHAT SHE HAS SO IF SHE WANTS TO GIVE IT TO THE PEOPLE IN AFRICA OR TIMBUCKTO SHE CAN! WHO ARE WE TO TELL HER WHAT SHE CAN OR CAN NOT DO WITH HER MONEY? NOBODY!!!! THATS RIGHT....SO OPRAH, KEEP DOING WHAT YOUR DOING!!! YOU ROCK!

Posted at 5:48PM on Mar 16th 2007 by L

8. As I see it, Tyrese came down from the mountain and issued a commandant that no one is to say bad things about Oprah. He's hardly an individual that anyone should listen to or even care about. Also, don't act like Oprah is the only zillionare who ever donated money. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett billions in donations dwarf O's donation. We appreciate Oprah's philathropy; however, the kind of money she makes, it should be expected unless someone is morally bankrupt.

Posted at 5:50PM on Mar 16th 2007 by TBA

9. Tyrese is absolutely correct.

TMZ's priorities are wack. I mean, it's one thing if a celebrity is doing something stupid like Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton.... but to condemn Oprah, and then to condemn Tyrese for standing up for Oprah while hitting back at those who don't do a hundredth of what she does to help other people?

Something is wrong with TMZ.

Posted at 6:00PM on Mar 16th 2007 by blah

10. He's gayer than Sisqo... Give him a Coke A Cola and he'll start that cheesin shit.
www.myspace.com/demdamkeyids

Posted at 6:07PM on Mar 16th 2007 by Clay

11. For the comments about Oprah.When you do something good it is always someone out there that is going to try and bring you down. So you just keep your head up and keep doing what you are doing.You don't have to answer to anyone but God,and he is very happy about the good that you are doing.

Posted at 6:09PM on Mar 16th 2007 by gigi

12. Why are people so worried what someone else does with their own money? This is a free country, she can spend it how she likes. You and I have that freedom, so should she.

Some how people out of jealousy start acting like people with money owe us some explanation. She earned her money legally, so its not our business.

Cant we ever say anything nice about the kind acts other people do. Instead we scrutinize and belittle the kind work.

Posted at 6:22PM on Mar 16th 2007 by Liza R

13. Your sic is incorrect. amount is singular, and hence "there is a staggering amount..." is correct. You are confused by the prepositional phrase including the plurals millionaires and billionaires.

Posted at 8:52PM on Mar 16th 2007 by exhuming mccarthy

14. WHO CARES WHAT OPRAH DOES. SHE IS A TALK SHOW HOST. SHE WILL DO ANYTHING TO GET ATTENTION. WHAT A SICK PERSON SHE IS.

Posted at 6:33PM on Mar 16th 2007 by JANIE

15. More whites with plenty of moola and a huge majority without a lot of moola regularly help out a lot more people of other races than those other races with plenty of moola (or less) to to help poor whites, for example. So this rapper person doesn't know what he's talking about. If reports are true about the slave-like and prisoner-like conditions at Oprah's academy, especially the part about thes students not even being able to see their parents except for once a month, Oprah is worse than a Nazi camp director. Too much discipline will turn a child into a hateful cynic that won't trust anyone, especially themselves. So much for a life lesson. Oprah was totally wrong to not help her own kind and others in this country.

Posted at 6:35PM on Mar 16th 2007 by TH

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