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

[JOANNA A.]

If I had told the story substituting "rich black woman" for "Oprah," it would have been the same story in theory; but "Oprah" is a historic figure, significant as a rags-to-riches story and as a racism-doesn't-exist story. 

There's a reason we read novels and narratives rather than a sequence of equations. 

Joanna 

----- Original Message ----- 
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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