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Oprah - I've Got "Good White Folks"

Oprah Winfrey wishes her beloved grandma was still around -- to see the "good white folks" that are under her domain.

The media queen told a group of graduates at the Howard University commencement Saturday that her grandmother's wish was that Oprah would someday work for some "good white folks." How the tables have turned, said Oprah, now that those "good white folks" are working for her. Oprah's grandma worked as a servant in Mississippi in the 1950s, and the younger Winfrey has often invoked her as an inspiration and a guiding force in her life.

Hoff – I Should've Used A Fork & Knife!


David Hasselhoff doesn't regret making that drunken video that was all over the Internet last week, but he is a bit disgusted by his own manners. "I wish I'd used a knife and fork to eat that [bleeping] burger," he tells Piers Morgan, Brit journo and the Hoff's "America's Got Talent" co-judge, via MSNBC. Morgan adds that the "Baywatch" star is "an insecure man who just wants to be loved." Hasselhoff, as we all know, was filmed by his daughter while he appeared to be in a drunken stupor in Las Vegas, and the tape was leaked to the media in the midst of Hoff's custody battle with wife Pamela Bach. Morgan adds that the Hoff has "a massive ego," and refers to his "Knight Rider" and huge-in-Germany days incessantly.

Paris to Serve in Pink Underwear?


Could this be the answer to Paris' prayers? The infamous "Sheriff Joe" Arpaio, who runs the controversial "Tent City" facility outside of Phoenix where inmates are forced to wear striped uniforms, pink underwear, and serve in chain gangs, says he's spoken to L.A. jail officials and offered to take Paris off their hands for her sentence. According to KTVK-TV in Phoenix, the Chief of Jails is actually considering the offer, because of severe overcrowding in his own facilities.

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Michael Jackson's nephew Austin Brown is being groomed by the star choreographer of "Stomp the Yard" to be the next big thing, reports Chris Yandek of TheSportsInterview.com. David Scott tells Yandek that Brown is "incredible" and that they're working on "some stuff that's gonna hit the streets in a second." ... Whitney Houston is "straight as an arrow" according to her record label, refuting reports yesterday on FOX News that she seemed to be in an altered state at the big celeb party in the Bahamas last weekend. ... NBC left Donald Trump's "The Apprentice" off its fall schedule yesterday, though it reserved the right to bring back the show at some point later in the season.

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1. Oprah is prejudice against WHITES!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 8:33AM on May 15th 2007 by no drunks in hollywood

2. OPRAH, you stupid racist b*tch. I hope you choke on a big fat chocolate bar.

Posted at 8:35AM on May 15th 2007 by KKK

3. I cannot believe that OPRAH is gloating on white people working for her. No wonder we can't get past the fact that blacks slaved for whites. She keeps it going by turning it around. I bet the whites working for her don't even get paid minimum wage.

I use to like her, NO LONGER!!!!!!

Posted at 8:38AM on May 15th 2007 by Oprah is RACIST

4. You all need to quit the hating! She is not racist. What she is saying is that her granmother was a SERVANT and wanted her grand-daughter (Oprah) to work for good people. Now, Oprah is on top, and this just proves that anyone can do what they put their mind to! PERIOD!

As far as the Jackson nephew, they have some good genes! Do you rememeber the Three T's. Gorgeous! Poor Michael messed himefl up though! :(

Posted at 8:41AM on May 15th 2007 by monica

5. Oprah is not prejudice against whites she loves em' a little too much sometimes. White people should not be offended by this because it's actually a compliment. Granted it's coming from a black woman who is a billionaire so white people especially white men feel threatened by comments like this. But as a black woman with a college degree I hear comments like this all the time especially at work and I'm expected to smile and keep it moving. I was JUST told how calm and professional I am in the way I speak and handle matters. What?! Am I expected to act like an animal and be violent when speaking to people in a business environment? Let Oprah alone!!

Posted at 8:46AM on May 15th 2007 by DEE RAY

6. AS I said, She's racist.!!!!!

Put it any way you want Monica, but she said it, not us.

OPRAH IS A RACIST. I wonder how she feels about the other "good folks vs. bad folks???"

Posted at 8:47AM on May 15th 2007 by Oprah is RACIST

7. I wonder if Sharpton, or Jackson is going to say anything about this racist situation???? Probably not, because in their minds it's not racist if it is said against white people. Hypocrits.

Posted at 8:47AM on May 15th 2007 by OPRAH IS A PIG!!!!

8. i think oprah's comments are offensive towards "white people" , maybe someone ought to call rev al sharpton?, oh no wait....they would just say was a harmless ;ittle comment, taken out of context... hey maybe someone should call imus or Michael Richards?
maybe their comments were taken out of context too?

Posted at 8:49AM on May 15th 2007 by B0red

9. It is funny that this was mentioned on the Steve Harvey Show this morning, "Oprah and the Spelman Graduation speech". Steve said that there would be a backlash by CERTAIN Americans, he was right on the money. It WAS NOT a racist comment!

If you have any knowledge about the 1950's South and the African American you would understand the point of the story she was relaying. If you have never watched your loved ones aspire to be nothing more that a house keeper or such then you cannot understand.

In the 1950's and 60's it was a status symbol to get on with a Good White Family that treated you with respect. That was the point she was making and also in the speech she mentioned how she was sad that her Grandmother couldn't see what she has made of herself.

But, as usual, I suspect this will be lost in the fervor created by "out of context" comments. Read her WHOLE speech and become enlightened.

Posted at 8:49AM on May 15th 2007 by Hope

10. IF I were to say that I have "good black folk" working for me, how would it be perceived???? As Racist, right black folk???? Even though I'm not racist!!!!

Posted at 8:50AM on May 15th 2007 by Oprah is RACIST

11. she's not gloating, she's making a point............... the same way the TMZ staff would make a point about Germans and Jews, post Holocaust. Or Arabs and Jews.

Only Oprah's point is more poignant. Her grandmother's wish was for her to be a servant to white folks, because that was all her grandmother could see to wish for. And her grandmother wanted those white folks -- not to be rich, or lenient, or whatever-- she wanted them to be GOOD. Oprah grew up in the South, under Jim Crow. Finding 'good' white folks? might as well ask for the sun and the moon.

But things have changed. Not only is Oprah successful, but she is not a servant. And 'good' white folks not only exist (shocker of shocks, right? you know, white folks who don't always pull out their own race card in order to make blacks feel subservient to them, white folks who don't envy successful blacks, white folks who don't see class or caste or color but hard work, and are not ashamed of working with nor ashamed or working under blacks.... good white folks) but they are part of Oprah's team, where Oprah leads them, and they -- sharing Oprah's desires and beliefs and skills (if not money) to help the less fortunate, those 'good white folks' are happy to be associated with her.

Oprah is a woman. Oprah is black. Oprah owns a business. Oprah makes more money than 99.5% of the world's richest whites. Oprah's advice is sought after and *respected*... but people don't pull an Imitation of Life on her.

Oprah has far exceeded her grandmother's dreams for her.


How old are you all, and what is your background, to take her dreams out of context so severely? to spite and spit?

Posted at 8:50AM on May 15th 2007 by blah

12. Wow Austin looks exactly like Michael before he screwed his face up. Austin if you get famous FOR THE LOVE OF GOD dont get plastic surgery!!!

Posted at 8:51AM on May 15th 2007 by Dont do it Austin!!

13. I admire Oprah for her many accomplishments but I have believed for a very long time that she is a RACIST.

I heard her speech on Saturday and I commented later to my husband about this exact comment about "good white folks" working for her.

If you have paid close attention to her show and her career, you see that with her, everything is about race.

Enough said.

Posted at 8:53AM on May 15th 2007 by Jenny Justice

14. I am urging all "good white folks" to not watch Oprah..I stopped buying her magazine and watching her show after her and Gail spoke of "good White folk"...and laughing about them working for her..the only thing Oprah wants that she can't have is to be white..I had friends tell me 12 years ago she was a racist and I didn't see it then...cause she packs her audiance with whites..and has white themes on her show..but..it's time to withdraw. our support from her..I'm telling everone I know to stop watching her and e-mailing this cute little story around the world...Don't watch OPRAH or buy her magazine if you are white..Watch for her sponsers on commercials..just one more time and never..ever buy their products again..

Posted at 8:58AM on May 15th 2007 by Sarah

15. GOOD WHITE FOLKS? What if some white folk said they had some "Good black folks" in thier life? Would that be considered a racist statement? It's just the way it is said that kind of makes me cringe. I happen to like Oprah and think she is brilliant in what she has achieved...the statement just gives me racist "willies". Normally a statement like this wouldn't even give me a second thought, but in lew of all the racist words being said or unsaid...it makes me wonder just how careful do we need to be?

As far as David Hassellhoff (sp) goes. Babe please go to rehab and really take a good look at yourself.

Paris Hilton--I don't care where you go to jail or what color your underwear is. Just GO already. ZZZZZZ.

http://enlightenedangel.bravehost.com

Posted at 8:59AM on May 15th 2007 by jProud American Author

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