Oprah Winfrey turns 70 years old. Is this important? I will try to explain. When we started watching Hollywood films, the maximum role given to a “negro” actress was that of a good maid who is devoted to her beautiful, wealthy, white mistress, as in “Gone with the Wind,” the most profitable and famous to date. The most important “victory” for black Americans in the 1960s was that Rosa Parks dared to sit on the bus in the front seats reserved for whites.
Happy Birthday, Opera dire: actress, broadcaster, presenter, political scientist, businesswoman, net worth $2.8 billion. This is not the most important number in the life of my dear and madam Oprah. The most important is the $450 million figure that she has donated to charity since she transitioned from a hungry girl to the “Trail of the Stars” over four decades. Her father abandoned the family, leaving the child in his mother’s custody. Her grandmother could not dress her in anything other than “potato bags.” The first charitable work she did after her success was establishing a girls’ school in South Africa, which she called “My Girls.”
Oprah is ranked 31st among the most influential American women. Among the potato-sack girl’s friends are Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. It was said that she would run for the presidency, but she denied this, saying, “It is not in my genes.”
She is likely the most popular woman among the most tormented and oppressed people of color in history. In official records, these people were simply called “slaves.” Now the Negro has become Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Negro is President. In Britain, the capital of the slave trade, the African also became a minister in the Foreign Office and the Colored became a master resident of 10 Downing Street.
Black skin won the war of freedom after a terrible human epic. In his division of human beings, the Austrian Sergeant Adolf Hitler placed Africans in the thirteenth class. Although they were “communists,” Lenin’s successors sent a piece of his brain to Berlin to examine the causes of the white man’s superiority. Oprah Winfrey is a model of superiors accused of organic inferiority: women and Africans. Rwanda was the most terrifying example of tribal brutality, and within a year it became the greatest model of human reconciliation.
How I wish that a joint delegation of Tutsis and Hutus would visit Lebanon to give lessons in communication between the people of one nation, one forest, or one jungle. But if they see a sample of the decadence of social communication, they will complain. It cannot be tolerated by humans.
