Oprah Winfrey: Americans know ‘diddly-squat’ about civil rights era
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The Washington Times
Oprah Winfrey said Americans by and large know “diddly-squat” about the history of the civil rights movement. The talk show queen and media mogul . . .
Ms. Winfrey also said that when she hears the N-word, she thinks of the “millions of people who heard that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree.”
Her count may be off a bit, however; as Breitbart reported, Tuskegee Institute historians say that about 3,446 blacks were lynched in America between the years of 1882 and 1968.
Ms. Winfrey capped the interview with a commentary about the acquittal of Florida resident George Zimmerman on murder charges for the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. The “shooting of Trayvon Martin” was notable because it exposed just what value Americans put on black lives, she said, Breitbart reported. . . .
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/1/oprah-winfrey-americans-know-diddly-squat-about-ci/#ixzz2aucPKJRn
Lynchings were a terrible thing, showing that law and order had broken down or was yet to be established in some areas. In yet it is interesting that when we hear about lynchings in the Old West we do not automatically assume that the victim was innocent. Could have been a horse thief or a killer, while it is assumed that all black lynching were done to people who were completely innocent. They were just walking down a country road and the Klan snatched them, or smiled at a white woman and evil whites yelled, "String 'em up!" A consideration in all of this must be the staggeringly high violent crime rate of young black men continuing today all over the world.
This also demonstrates once again that multicultural multiracial nations cannot long survive. The Zimmerman verdict 'exposed just what value Americans [apparently, when convenient, Winfrey considers only whites to be Americans] put on black lives.' (Not clear in article what was a direct quote from Winfrey, so I will correct this blog entry if the report did not accurately describe her words.)
All this from a black woman who is probably the most beloved by the greatest number white Americans in history. But all that, including the bazillions of dollars undoubtedly made mostly from millions of white fans, evaporates when it comes time for racial solidarity--as a so many whites continue sleepwalking toward achieving a colorblind utopia that will always only exist in their own noggins.
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