4.8 • 837 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, friends, BT here. Like before, we're going to look at some ugly stuff in this episode. |
0:05.8 | This one in particular contains some scenes of racial violence, as well as some really racist |
0:10.9 | language. Just letting you know. Thanks for listening. |
0:16.3 | We bring you today to Forsyth County, Georgia, just 30 miles north of Atlanta, which in the past few weeks has gained the reputation of being a hotbed of racism. |
0:26.8 | In case you can't tell, that's Oprah talking. |
0:29.9 | This is audio pulled from her TV show way back in 1987. |
0:33.9 | Back then, she wasn't the superstar we know her as today. |
0:37.5 | In 1987, she'd only been on the national airwaves a few months. |
0:41.9 | This particular episode was the first time Oprah took her show on the road, |
0:46.6 | traveling from her studio in Chicago to the country backroads of Forsyth County, Georgia. |
0:51.9 | Here are just some of the images of Forsyth County in past weeks that were broadcast around the globe. |
0:58.9 | They're showing a bunch of cars and protesters jamming a road near downtown coming. |
1:03.3 | There are helicopters overhead, guys wearing clan robes and tall white, pointy clan hats, |
1:08.4 | and tons of Confederate flags. |
1:11.0 | I doubt Oprah's crew had any idea what they were getting into. |
1:14.8 | There's no niggers here. Why should they even come, you know? |
1:19.0 | They asked for it. They got it. So why did they come back, you know? |
1:22.9 | This guy's from Forsyth County. Barrel-chested white guy, Viking beard, |
1:29.9 | aviator sunglasses, camo jacket, |
1:33.4 | camo hat. Why'd they come back? He asks. |
1:43.9 | Never go home. There go home. No king holiday. No king holiday. It's tough to make out here, but they're chanting no King holiday. |
1:47.5 | After this, Oprah and her crew take the show inside. |
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