Geez, everyone's guilty it seems.

I truly believe that Oprah uses her "power" in a positive way. What is she doing wrong? I just don't see it. I think she's got a really great show that touches on countless subjects, whether they are frivolous, or about things that really matter in the world. Who cares who watches it and what her audience is? She's catering to PEOPLE. Why should she limit herself?

I used to really dislike her show because I felt she was insincere, but lately she's really grown on me and I feel like she's really trying to help a lot of people. That's more than I can say for myself and many others.

Lol, that's funny. Oprah did more for black people than he ever did or will do.

I agree, I think the only thing she's guilty of is bad taste (Tom Cruise & Julia Roberts) & maybe sheltering herself a bit.

A bit? Here's where her sheltered life and bad taste combine - she thinks Tyler Perry makes "transcendent" art.

I don't even know who that is.

Not ringing a bell.

Believe me, you're not missing a damn thing.

It seems to me 50 cents is always starting something.

Your actions define peoples' perceptions of you. 50 Cent is just as much of a coon as Oprah is an oreo but he never talks about selling a destructive image to the community and helping reinforce stereotypes initiated by the media. They are both guilty in my eyes. Oprah's humanitarian contributions don't change that, either.

said he wanna be startin' somethin
gotta be startin' something
fiddy wanna be startin' somethin

Why an Oreo?

Why not, let's say....



a Klondike Bar?

I agree, I think the only thing she's guilty of is bad taste (Tom Cruise & Julia Roberts) & maybe sheltering herself a bit.

But for 50 to essentially be saying that black people aren't into what Oprah is into (women's issues, child protection, comfy sweats, & John Travolta) sounds like he's generalizing too much.
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a pack of Oreos is worth more than 50 cents though

unless they're them generic kind.

Believe me, you're not missing a damn thing.

That doesn't make Oprah an Orea anymore than it would if a white woman had issues with the same traits in white men.

It just makes them bitches.

Oprah Winfrey is really an Oreo- Black on the outside White on the inside, according to 50 Cent. In the January issue of Elle, the rapper says Winfrey started out with black women's views but has been catering to middle-aged White American women for so long that she's become one herself. I think the idea of being publicly noted that she's a Billionaire makes{blackwomen} interested in seeing her views, but its even more exciting to the demographic of white American women she's been aiming at to see that she has the exact same views that they have....

"Fiddy" better be a little more humble, because if it wasn't for many white people buying the shit he sells and calls music, he wouldn't be nearly as popular as he is now.

Bad taste? You think that's it? I think you are a bit uninformed but I'm not in the mood to go through all that I did on the Killer Mike thread. Believe what you want. Oprah is a great humanitarian but she is guilty of contributing to division in the black community and many INFORMED black males have beef with her over that. Ignorance is not bliss.
50 is shit. Somebody needs to flush him.

okay (and don't take this as an attack, I'm just asking) but do you question whether calling her "oreo" or 50 Cent "coon" is okay? Granted you're not a public figure, but is that not divisive as well?

Oprah's opinions may not please everyone (and they may even be idiotic at times), but they seem well intended at least.