[lbo-talk] Oprah cries racism....

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Aug 11 17:38:28 PDT 2013


It's the situation not the people involve0d that is significant. Hence Oprqh as a person is utterly irrelevant. Re-read the episode with "X" substituted for Oprah.

Carrol


> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of JOANNA A.
> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 6:42 PM
> To: lbo-talk
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Oprah cries racism....
>
> Here's a good one for Glenn Ford.
>
> Oprah went into a boutique in Switzerland and asked to see a $38,000
> handbag. The sales clerk declined saying that it was unlikely she could
afford
> it and pointed her to more affordable bags. Which in that store would be
> what, the 10.99 special?
>
> So Oprah left and went to the media with the story. Racism! she cried.
>
> My efforts at sympathy caused all brain synapses to short circuit and I
found
> myself unable.
>
> Joanna
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