According to Necole B*tchie, Oprah has had to put up with a great deal over the past year due to her decision to come out early to endorse Barack Obama. She shared her experience with Ed Lover. She talked about having to hold her peace:
“I’m glad I used my voice. What I decided early on that even if I lost every sponsor on the show… There is a wonderful bible passage that says “What does it do for a man to gain the world and loose his soul” and if I didn’t come out for Barack Obama when I did, I knew I would have lost a piece of my soul”
“They had never been called so many N-words so many times. It was bad. Like, go back to Africa kind of bad. We’re going to lynch you bad” – Necole B*tchie
Well all that was over on Wednesday on her show
Here is Oprah sharing her thoughts on the Obama win
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Oprah’s choosing of Obama is just another notch on her extra-ordinary career. She’s authentic and smart as a whip. She followed her heart and it worked out.
They say the amount of success your experience depends on how much criticism you can take and nothing can be further from the truth. Oprah has her loyal and devoted fans, and she has her detractors. She’s most definitely a race woman; but she’s no dummy she knows how to straddle the fence and that fence is handling her business and catering to her fan base. She understands that you can’t and won’t win over everybody. Ever. That’s why she’s a success.
I spent a lot of my adult life being critical of Oprah and how her she pandered to middle-aged, white women. But watching her run the risk of losing at least half of her audience by engaging in something as alienating as politics was worthy of the hat tip of all hat tips.
*Whispering: It doesn’t hurt that her support was for Obama…*
Kudos to her royal O-ness!
She had a vision when many did not. Thankfully she was in a position where she could use her money, her resources and her friends to get her message out. She wasn’t dependent on ratings or anything else.
I haven’t always viewed her show, but all I can say now is good for her. And karma can be a bitch.
I love O – Oprah and Obama.
Oprah has always been my hero.
This whole idea of Oprah pandering to whites was erroneous from the start. We have got to move beyond this narrow view of Blackness and what Black people – esp. Black women have to do for the Black race.
Oprah’s demographics have always been majority older white women. It was never a ‘Black’ show. Do you think she would’ve been this worldwide phenom basing her approval and ratings exclusively on Black people? They didn’t hire her or promote her or give her the show initially. Instead Bob Johnson founded BET and let the coonery unleash.
She stuck her neck out more than any other prominent Black person and was in the tank for Obama before most of us came on board in fact.
He made sure to give props to Ann Cooper of Georgia and that was a full circle moment to me.
Oprah has a big following in Saudi Arabia, NY Times had a story on it. So she’s big with plenty of women around the planet.
Plus, when is a woman’s issue that seems directed towards white women not applicable to black women?
I don’t think it is proper to use her show as a political platform. You must remember that 42% of the country voted for McCain despite the fact he operated off half the funding, the mainstream media was overwhelmingly biased in their coverage of the candidates towards Obama and McCain had the Bush tag to try and overcome. Whatever you wish to call it, the win was not a landslide despite the desire of the country for a black president 48% of the country does not feel he is the right black president. It is a shame in this country that partisan politics in the government and media always seems to leave only half of America happy no matter what party wins. Partisan politics sacrifices right and wrong for the sake of “sticking with the party” which ultimately makes us all unable to have the unity as a country that we would like to have.