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🗓️ 11 August 2020
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:14.4 | Hey guys welcome back to the show and thank you so much for tuning in today we are going to be talking about Oprah Winfrey, the black billionaire who would like to lecture you about your white privilege. |
0:19.1 | So I feel like Oprah is just one of those people who doesn't need an introduction, you know, because it's |
0:26.3 | Oprah. And as someone who grew up in the 90s, even though I was never a fan of hers, I still remember |
0:32.0 | her TV show was everywhere and her O magazine that was at pretty much every |
0:37.1 | single grocery store or pharmacy and I saw it on people's kitchen counters |
0:42.1 | their coffee tables, you name it. |
0:44.4 | But still, it has been several years now since her talk show was taken off the air, |
0:48.5 | so I'm sure at least some of you, in the back of your minds might have been wondering, gee, I wonder what Oprah's been up to lately. |
0:55.6 | Well, I'm here today to tell you that the answer to that, long story short, is diving into woke politics. |
1:03.0 | Yeah, Oprah is back in the headlines lately, |
1:06.0 | but this time she is making her whole spiel |
1:08.0 | about left-wing racial grievances. |
1:11.0 | I'm sure many of you don't know this but actually back when |
1:14.6 | Stacy Abrams was running for governor Oprah did campaign for her even going |
1:18.9 | door to door for her and Oprah still does do that whole Oprah's Book Club Book of the Month thing, but now she uses that platform to promote different left-wing progressive books. |
1:30.0 | Recently we did a segment about how she was promoting the book American Dirt which was very |
1:34.8 | progressive, very pro-illegal immigration but she ended up getting in trouble for it because |
1:40.6 | apparently it wasn't woke enough since the author of that book was not Latino, |
1:45.0 | but as USA Today announced recently, her latest Oprah's book club pick is even woker than that. |
1:52.0 | We have this article here it says on Tuesday |
1:54.1 | when free announced she had chosen Isabel Wilkerson's exploration of race and |
1:57.8 | hierarchy in the US cast the origins of our discontents as her latest book club pick. |
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