Talk queen’s ratings plummet after open embrace of Barack Obama campaign
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Oprah Winfrey’s decision to openly back Barack http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3897."
Winfrey, who was clearly an affirmative action beneficiary of the corporate media’s desire to put “black faces in high places,” has been so successful not because she is a “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4367 black woman” but because many whites are desperate to find and support non-threatening, “nice” nonwhites who seem to reinforce the media stereotype of multiculturalism as actually workable. Supporting such “Uncle Toms” also allows these whites to relieve a measure of misplaced “white guilt.”
This sad pathology lies at the http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4293 which, like Iowa, has few blacks and therefore allows liberal whites to continue to believe the myth of racial harmony.Oprah Winfrey owes all she has to white middle class women. For her to so openly reject them on racial grounds was a serious mistake which will continue to cost her dearly. Oprah clearly understands this, which is why she hasn’t been seen around the Obama campaign for ages.
Likewise, Obama’s success has been based largely on the white “pity vote” from guilty white people wanting to give the (“nice”) black guy a chance. This has been bolstered by early attempts from his amen corner in the corporate media to portray him as a man who “transcends race.” News of Obama’s church allegiance, his winning of 90% + of black votes, as well as the pack of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4044 ideologues who surround him have given many whites a sense of what Obama really stands for.