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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.

Party Favors: Jacko's Nephew the Next "Thriller"? ... Whitney's "Straight as an Arrow" Says Label ... NBC to Trump: You're Fired!


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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256. Sara wrote:
"15. 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."


Oprah is not a racist. She has made it big but has helped so many people make it. She has taken them along with her, including a lot of White people who have made it big because of Oprah. I believe she was making a point that in America at that time her Grandmother's vision of the world was that you only could work for Whites and if you did, try and work for some who are good hearted with Christian principles who will do right by you (as Blacks always got the short end of the stick back then and worse). Oprah simply mean't that the world was not the same as her Grandmother viewed it as attested to the fact she now has a lot of good, skilled, competent Whites working for her, who by the way most are her friends (I might add she has good people of all races working for her). Her personnel reallly mirrors affirmative action practices without having to be forced by law.

Posted at 9:55PM on May 21st 2007 by SallyJane

257. she is so arrogant, self-serving and pompous, I just get disgusted looking at her. I am surprised she doesn't build a church so everyone can come worship her there on Sundays. Are American housewives so stupid as to really believe she is a Messiah instead of a once bad journalist who got nothing more than a lucky break?

America made her a billionaire and she should start pouring that money into our communities and our schools than somewhere in Africa. Do people in Africa watch her show? No, us stupid little Americans do so she should pour her money into this country, not somewhere else.



Posted at 7:54PM on May 21st 2007 by Kev Selob

258. It's up to you, but call it bad conditioning, bad genetics or whatever

white folks just are not as strong and may collapse on you before their jobs are done.

They don't know how to discipline kids either, in your case dogs, those either.

Be sure to carry around that doctor of yours just in case.

Posted at 6:53AM on May 22nd 2007 by Ophra wimpy white folks may not cut it

259. I stopped watching Oprah on TV, many years ago when I first realized that she was a racist. It's soo obvious!

ALSO--- In the first ten years of the making-of-her-millions, she did very LITTLE to help "black folks"!

THIS country is where Oprah earned her GAZILLION$ of dollars and mostly from "white folks". Keep your money in America!! Adopt a "black folks" neighborhood! How about close to the Atlanta airport??!!

GEES!!

Posted at 3:20PM on May 22nd 2007 by Keep your money in your country. Help

260.

Ryche !...You are so hot ! ...I think I love you! ...Will you marry me?...How old are you?

Posted at 7:34AM on May 23rd 2007 by I'm in love !

261. HAHHAHAHA.. Im 34, and im already married, im sorry... But thank you for the words..

Posted at 1:04PM on May 23rd 2007 by Ryche

262.
Ryche,

That was sarcasm in reference to your comments directed at Monica. Sometimes the best response is NO RESPONSE! You just lost that one!

Posted at 2:37PM on May 23rd 2007 by I'm in love

263. Aw, well thank you for setting me straight on internet ettiquite, but i didn't know this was a win/lose contest...

btw, im sure you meant what you said, you can't take it back now... LOL

Posted at 4:11PM on May 23rd 2007 by Ryche

264. #271 I'm in love (monica)...For the love of God, please...Shut Up....now....Talk about "Sometimes the best response is NO RESPONSE" ? If you can't see that this would be a good time for you to do JUST that, then.....The only one that lost anything was you. To begin with, enough regard from anyone( other than Ryche) to read (let alone, respond) even one word of all your.........Well, I think you get the point......Or wait........maybe you don't...

Ryche- Thank you for responding...Lucky women, that wife of yours....Please give my regards.

Posted at 5:19PM on May 23rd 2007 by I'm in love !

265. Ryche,

Please omit "women" (and maybe interchanging a few capitalizations in the wrong place) Starting to get down-right iratated with "monica" , now.

Beginning to think it's just some kid, ditching school. or something.....

Posted at 6:19PM on May 23rd 2007 by I'm in love !

266. Monica, please except my apology.

It's just that ...it isn't about Ryche's punctuation, or grammar. ...or even winning. It's that he/she...can't be too presumputious, here... is evidently, investing a lot of time, effort and concern for this matter in an attempt to get someone to see another perspective....But doing it....Oh. so well...in a smart yet loving way ..IMO...and could be another African American, as far as I know.

There are others, that have commented on this subject here that state they are also black ( take #269 "Everyone needs to grow up" for example) that are at least open and willing to consider another perspective..

Posted at 3:29PM on May 25th 2007 by I'm in love !

267. I think people do not always think before they speak... AND, she should have said (my grandmother would be proud to see what I acheived and what people of color have done so far to make a difference, that there is opportunity to move forward like I did) But she did not! And as you know, people need entertainment....

Posted at 10:52AM on May 26th 2007 by Cookie

268. Wow. I used to have a lot of respect for Oprah. Turns out she's not the class act I thought she was, she's just another bigot.

With nearly infinite power and a billion dollars in the bank. So, can we fire The Almighty O now too?

Posted at 4:31PM on May 27th 2007 by HAF

269. I don't believe that any "Good White Folks" could have uttered a similar comment without risking a public outcry.

Posted at 2:20AM on May 28th 2007 by tracy

270. We treated the blacks for sooo long horribly..they seem to think that turn around is fair play.
But 2 wrongs don't now and never will make a right. She loathes being black because of the history involved. Unfortunatly, she is mad at God for making her black and is taking it out on "Good White Folks"!!

Posted at 4:32PM on May 27th 2007 by BUELL22

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