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http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/oprah-winfrey-finally-comments-on-paula-deens-n-word-controversy-201368In the very first days I tried to reach her and then I decided to stay out of it as I saw it blowing up," Winfrey, 59, tells Entertainment Tonight. "In time she will be fine. For me, it all just felt kind of sad."
Winfrey believes people need to let the "dust settle" before they can have a "real conversation" about racism in today's world. While the TV titan hasn't been subjected to racial epithets in years, she has experienced racism in the workplace.
"Nobody in their right mind is going to call me the N-word. You know, you see those fools on Twitter sometime say ridiculous things. But nobody in their right mind is going to do that to my face, because true racism is being able to have power over somebody else," Winfrey explains. "So that doesn't happen to me that way."
Disclaimer: I don't give 2 shits about Paula / Oprah. I invoke the @Young_Chitlin amendment of "just posting, nothing more nothing less"
That said, what was Oprah really saying ?
1. She called that bitch because she was on her show and she wanted to know if she was really sittin' in that chair saying "this nigga-bitch really got more money than me ?" the whole time.
2. Was she just calling to give her that nigga-pass that, hey you're my rich friend, the n-word is fine around me. It'll blow over ?
3. At the bolded, was she saying, I'm too rich and powerful to be called a nigga. But these poor black people - yeah, they some niggas ?
What's your take ?
