The Oprah Show on Race In America - A 25-Year Look Back

The Oprah Winfrey Show: The Podcast

Oprah

Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

From January 17, 2011: To commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, Oprah looks back at “The Oprah Winfrey Show” episodes that centered around race. The moments include a visit to Forsyth County, GA, where no black person had lived since 1912, the reunion of seven of the Little Rock 9 with the white high school students who bullied them, a brown-eyed/blue-eyed race experiment with teacher Jane Elliott, a white college student’s experiment on being black, audience opinions about the Rodney King verdict and riots, Jay-Z’s book “Decoded,” and an interview with a former racist who changed after getting to know his biracial grandson. Also, Oprah reveals the pivotal aha! moment she had during the taping of an episode with white supremacist guests.

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0:00.0	Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes.
0:06.4	I believe the Oprah Winfrey show
0:07.8	was one of the greatest classrooms in the world.
0:10.2	I really never thought of it that way.
0:12.2	The aha moments, the breakthroughs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.
0:18.0	I'm missing so terribly, I'm missing every single minute.
0:21.0	The LOLs. The L-O-L's, the moments that matter, the eye-opening life lessons.
0:28.0	Never allow them to take you somewhere else. I'm bringing them back. It's time to open the vault. I personally
0:36.6	chosen these classic episodes to share with you again. Every single person you
0:41.8	ever will meet shares that common desire.
0:45.0	They want to know, do you see me?
0:48.0	Do you hear me?
0:49.0	Does what I say mean anything to you?
0:52.0	You are listening to the Oprah Winfrey show, The Podcast.
0:57.0	It is because of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement that I am standing here today
1:05.1	because of everything he represents, strength, service, sacrifice, and above all
1:11.1	possibility that doors opened for me and millions of others
1:16.8	allowing me to fully become the person that I am in honor of Dr. King.
1:22.3	We are taking a special look back at race on the Oprah Winfrey
1:26.9	show over the past 25 years. In 1987, we'd only been on the air for about six months when we took our show to Forsyth County, Georgia,
1:37.0	where not a single black person had lived for 75 years. And I wanted to find out why.
1:47.5	We bring you today to Forsyth County, Georgia,
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