Wednesday, August 7, 2013

Oprah Winfrey Comments on Paula Deen N-Word Controversy


Oprah Winfrey tried to reach out to Paula Deen in the early days of her N-Word scandal.

Oprah Winfrey befriended Paula Deen when she interviewed the butter-loving cook for an episode of Oprah's Next Chapter in March 2012. The talk show host even spent the night at Deen's Georgia home, where the women discussed everything from Deen's financial insecurities to her diabetes diagnosis.
More than a year later, in a videotaped deposition, Deen admitted to once using the N-word in the past. The 66-year-old Southerner was subsequently fired by the Food Network and lost multiple endorsement deals. Until recently, Winfrey had remained silent on her friend's latest controversy.
"In 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."
The Butler star continues, "It shows up for me if I'm in a boardroom or situations where I'm the only woman or I'm the only African American person within a hundred mile radius. I can see in the energy of the people there, they don't sense that I should be holding one of those seats. I can sense that. But I can never tell, 'Is it racism? Is it sexism?'"
When asked to comment about Deen during an interview with Extra, Winfrey laughed but declined to say anything more about the disgraced TV personality. "Oh my god! I don't have anything to do with Paula Deen," she insisted. "She is not the first white lady to use the N-word! Good lord!"
Jacked from Us Magazine

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

I really wish the white media would stop pretending what happened to Paula Deen was due to her 'once using the n-word'-it was about SO MUCH more than that! It started with the unfair labor practices that was brought up by a WHITE woman! I notice the media isn't running to HER for a comment. Evidently TMZ lied on Laila Ali, saying she supported Deen so Laila got on Tom Joyner to set that straight.

Anonymous said...

HARPO is really quiet about this but if it were some rapper or black music executive she would pounce

Anonymous said...

Oprah you know when you stayed at Paula's house and interviewed her, Paula viewed you as the perfect Aunt Jemima for her restaurant, and you know Paula wondered how a n***** like you got all that money, especially when you would have been the slave mammy if her daddy was still alive. How sad Oprah to befriend such a racist ratchet woman. SHAME on you Oprah!!

Anonymous said...

Ditto, 1:25.
Oprah is kidding herself.

What about being friends with Jay Z singing nigger songs. Oprah is lame.

Anonymous said...

paula asked oprah if she would be kind enough to come down and ring the dinner bell while wearing the custom made aunt jemima uniform left for her in the guest bedroom

Anonymous said...

THANK YOU! @9:04 and If I'm not mistaken, that chick was a JEWISH white woman, suing also for sexual harassment.

Just goes to show you how the liberal media ain't shit and neither the ignoramuses who follow these clowns.

Anonymous said...

Oprah isn't going to say to much she doesn't want to rock the boat. Oprah wants white folks to come and see the movie she's in.

Anonymous said...

Oprah why don't you team up with spike lee?


just kidding I know she don't like strong minded black men

Anonymous said...

@10:20

This!!!!!

She pounced when the cast of Crash came on her show. She dismissed Ludacris' presence and when Terrence Howard said he'd use 'nigga' regardless of how anyone felt she stuck to him until he changed his mind and swore off the word. Oprah deals with black people when it's profitable. I don't like her ways.

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