Anonymous wrote:“As long as people can be judged by the color of their skin, the problem is not solved,” she said, adding,“There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it – in that prejudice and racism – and they just have to die.”

What do you think of this quote? Obviously, the RW has gone bananas over it...and trying to make it seem like she got the Medal of Freedom because of this quote.

Personally, I don't care for the way she phrased it, but I get what she's saying. I think she's right. Most people I've known who are now, or would be, over the age of 80 are racist. Yet, I don't know anyone under the age of 30 who seems to give race a second thought. Obviously, this is a huge generalization based on my experience alone. But clearly, racism has been diluted through the generations. So sure, racism will be less of as issue as those older racists die off.

Anonymous wrote:First, can we PLEASE stop hanging on every word Oprah says?

Second, she is wrong. Racism won't just "go away" when the old, racist farts die. I would think she would know better.

I don't think I was ever racist, but I was a typical white, suburban kid who didn't know any better. I ended up teaching in a school that was 3% white for 15 years. Two years in I didn't see kids as a color, but as WHO they were and I know that came from my experience with kids from other cultures and ethnicities.

I just learned. Simple as that.

We are fortunate in the DC area that we are so diverse so a lot of us aren't racists, but you would be surprised when you step out of the DC area how much that changes. So, while Oprah can live in La-La land and point the finger at old white dudes (and ladies) she is an idiot for doing so because racism goes much deeper than that.

Anonymous wrote:Racism is a big money industry for people like the Reverend Al Sharpton, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, etal. As long as they make money and people are willing to remain uneducated about the world. The problem of racism will tend to exacerbate itself. I do not deny that it exist and there are bad people in the world but as long as we give stage to the KKK, Nazi and the aforementioned Reverends this problem will grow. Ignore them all because they are all too lazy to get a job and this is how they all get rich

Anonymous wrote:Have you seen Oprah's feet?

Anonymous wrote:Racism is a big money industry for people like the Reverend Al Sharpton, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, etal. As long as they make money and people are willing to remain uneducated about the world. The problem of racism will tend to exacerbate itself. I do not deny that it exist and there are bad people in the world but as long as we give stage to the KKK, Nazi and the aforementioned Reverends this problem will grow. Ignore them all because they are all too lazy to get a job and this is how they all get rich

I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a `more convenient season.'

… I had … hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: `An Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry. It has taken Christianity almost two thousand years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth.‘ Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely rational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively.