I was a young man in my twenties during Oprah’s tirade. I had a full time job, was going to college and church, had my own apartment, was not gay, not on drugs, did not have a police record and no children. I was a 6 foot tall, fit, chocolate complexion, ex Marine and not too bad looking - average brother. Seemed like every sister I tried to talk to was angry and seemed to enjoy being rude. Thank the Most High that I was finally able to find a wife later in life at 49. Never had children though. Felt like that ship had sailed and didn’t want to put my wife (also in her 40’s) through any risks. I believe that a lot of single women today in their 40’s, 50’s and 60’s were influenced by Okra and have her to thank if they grew up with attitudes toward BM.
You have a story like me veteran marine never ex marine my brother I'm much older than you I'm 60 and at my age I finally for a good black woman a country girl that was raised with morals and values it took me 60 years to find my queen and what I mean by queens she carries herself as on feminum respectful with herself and me knowing what she does in the streets reflect upon me and her she respects me as a man and know what roll she has to play in our relationship it's not a control thing it's a respect thing took me 60 years to find a good black woman so for you younger brothers don't give up I know it's hard but there are good black women out there that's not into the modern day hoe thot culture
@@BernardBethea6339 Same here, retired USAF 2001. Found a fit, feminine, friendly and childless BW at 39. Raised in a two parent household. 21 years later we are doing well. Be well fellow veteran brothers.
Judging by what her dad did to her it’s not a surprise that she held those ideas. Who gave Oprah the green light to produce media that made black men look stupid? Very few TV networks have black executives. If Oprah didn’t do it then some other manufactured black personality would because that’s what the Networks wanted. Plantation owners used preachers to keep enslaved people ignorant and in support of the institution of slavery, fast forward to the 21st century and their methods haven’t changed.
Dr Frances Cress Welsing an absolute giant was never on the Oprah Winfrey show who by the way had one of the best selling books of all time, The Isis Papers. I rest my case!
........so true.......Oprah never acknowledged Dr.Frances Cress Welsing...... Donahue had to feature her on his show.....Oprah ignored her.....Dr.Welsing was a highly Esteemed Black female Scholar of the 21st Century..
The Mammy Supreme is gettin this work and from several black women. Nice to see them see her for what she is. She is doing this as damage control because black people been on her ass for the last couple years
@Taurean Reign Reloaded: Spot on! It must be affecting Oprah's profit margin somehow, so she's trying to do some damage control to save her reputation-- and make a few bucks in the process!
Maria Broom of WJZ channel 13 Baltimore MD. was the real pioneer and not Ophrah . Oprah was used as a replacement but Maria Broom was the real McCoy though she will never be known by so many
That's exactly what she is. She was a replacement for Maria Broom on the show people are talking with Richard Sheer on WJZ TV Baltimore,MD. Maria Broom was a real avocate not Ophrah. Thank you very much
I don’t know what to think. I grew up on Oprah and admired her because i wanted to be a journalist. I read books about her and watched interviews over the years. I got many different impressions of her based on people who knew her when she was young. It didn’t seem Oprah was well-liked by her peers when she was in her teens or twenties. Her own father has called her out so many times for lying about her past for sympathy.
She had an agenda just like Jerry springer just like Ricky lake all of them had an agenda for the black community since day one since we got Television
That’s an interesting situation if I white supremacist tells you as a black person that you are a sellout to your people. Anyone have a link to that clip.
@@christonbarcas Money talks, and you know about the Get the bag culture with African American women, by any means necessary. Brah, they would throw the same sistahood they created under the bus for a dollar. Look at BLM.
I've always said why don't she call out all these female rappers for oversexualizing themselves in their music videos as misogynistic, no But let it be BM doing it...oh boy.
I remember as a young adult stepping out into the world. The color purple had been out. I didnt know how this film would affect the rest of my life then. Since then I've always been on a f Okrah crusade. She is the phoniest celebrity alive.
@Drizzy Ha: Exactly! She's trying to get us to forget about what she did to Michael Jackson & what her buddy Gayle King tried to do right after Kobe Bryant was killed.
@@SchuylerT.Colfax - Watch out for Tamron Hall as well... She's part of that club. The Most High is exposing them all... It's just up to the lost 🐑 sheeple to come out of their idolatrous, man/ woman worshipping mindset. ALWAYS follow the CREATOR over his creation.
This is easily one on the most disingenuous things I have ever seen. If she wants to repent for her transgressions that's fine but don't sit her and act like you have no original sin. She must think this younger generation is unaware of her past. Where's cancel culture when you need it.
I as 33 y/o bm remember my mom living and dieing by opras word , in her eyes she could do no wrong, and I can also remember how she treated and emasculated my stepdad who should have left her years ago, and he was a great dad but deserved better . Don't get me wrong I love my mom's but now I see why she never got married, and this generation raised ours and they wonder why we aren't marrieing these chicks. Thank you so much for this truth but we haven't articulated like u and o.g. Kevin . Much ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I'm a 35 y/o bm and your experiences is mine to a T! I'm awake now but it's been a war on bm for a very long time! Sisters like this is rare and as Lion myself she draws me to a smile... I don't do that a lot 😔!
Finally a black women telling the truth. As a black man at age 63, I’ve had deal with the aftermath of what she has made black men look so terrible. Unbelievable we black men have had to deal with in our lifetime.
Thank you. Im a Gen Xer as well. I remember these talk shows and just dogging out black men" Her buddy Gayle King disrespecting Kobe Bryant after he died.
The nerve, the audacity of Okrah lol. In my family/many black households in America, they love to recite The Color Purple's dialog and the mannerisms of the characters (Especially Tyler Perry with his character Madea). My Mother who's in her 50's told me that a lot of people didn't like Danny Glover after his role as Mister. A lot of people thought he was like that character in real life. It's bittersweet (mostly bitter) to see her "switch" her tune. I'll be 25 in December and I wholeheartedly agree with you Kendra that she's been a big factor into the BMs, image in the media.
Danny Glover is like Oprah's best friend, he's also a homosexual just like most actors are. See, thank God for internet and the wide range of platforms we have today because mainstream media in general was extremely deceptive in the late 80s and 90's. My parents ( mainly my mother) was the same way too, and now my mother finally see how the enemy is trying to destroy all 3 of her black sons.
Kendra didn't mention him but Oprah's little protege Tyler Perry is an extension of Oprah's affect. Notice the kinds of bm he typically portrays in his movies - see the pattern??
From what I remember, he was on her show w/ the cast... but while she treated the rest with gloves.. she was bashing& offending him like a child for his music....
finally, Finally, FINALLY someone said it! I have NEVER been an Oprah fan. I've never seen someone who has been so wrong about so many things, and been so full of herself, but lauded as the savior of black people, and black women in general. And gotten so rich from it all.
Is Oprah also the definition for Imperialism. Oprah used soft force to to extend the political, economic, and spiritual power over over a specific group of progressive woman, who seething with ambition, continued the deception of the serpent rhetoric started in the "Garden" with Eve as the Victim. Man was as still is the victim of the effeminate spirit that persuade Eve to overturn God's law. Because of Adam's disobedience, it caused him to lose His place in the Garden, and instead of his new role to rule over the woman, not with force but wisdom, Adam choose lust and power not only to subdue Women but also the weaker descendants of his brothers. Today, men are being ruled over by woman, who are ruled over by the rainbow coalition of abomination. And most of humanity is being transformed by their subtle scheme of replacing the cross with their sign representing equality called the "rainbow pride". "Come out of Her my people", because pride comes before the fall, the fallen is finishing the tower that was abandoned but not forgotten. It is trying to reach the heavens with a STEM from Lucifer who is teaching his subjects the darker side of the rainbow power and deception. Only the True light, the bright and morning star of the heavens will deliver God's chosen and guide and lead them to the presence of the "one True God" and Jesus The Christ" the eternal light that transcends and transforms forever. The fullness of time is waiting for those looking for HIm🌅🤔✝️
She helped two male white doctors get their own shows Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz, but yet she has done nothing to help a black male doctor and I know there are some good ones out here.
I look back on her legacy and I like her less and less. I'm old enough to remember when she got her start. Unleashing that awful "Dr." Phil is an unforgivable atrocity.
Let's not leave out her stance on not allowing rappers on her show ". . .because they gratuitously use the words n!gg@ and bytch"; but had female rappers on (used bytch) and Quentin Tarrontino on at THAT EXACT TIME FRAME (and continued).
My mom loved Oprah growing up. Just watching her and reflecting on how I grew up has made me realize that even though she is gone (Lord rest her soul), I didn't realize that she was instilling feminism in me until I did not know how to interact and maintain relationships with men. My opportunity of having a family has been missed and it has taken sessions of therapy to adjust my purpose in life (what I can do now) as it relates to men. She never taught me not to need a man, but she didn't groom the importance of having a man either. Many of us in Gen X really were screwed up by our baby boomer parents.
Georgia Peach, thank you for the courage to see things differently than some of what you lived in your formative years. "I feel you" that "ideal" years for family are not there. I'm hearing a " I-can't- change-the-past-but-let's-shape-the-future" attitude. ( Many humans--male or female would take the easy way out. They stay in their comfort zone--just blaming all others day after day. You show the personal strength to strike a different path than the past environment so that that the Future is sure to be better. I admire you. May God totally surround you in the most stressful moments you might or might not have. Your overall attitude and that positive smile on your pic mean there's some "right one" out there if that is a desire of yours...Again, I love you, for your quiet courage, Georgia Peach ! CSII
“…but she didn’t groom the importance of having a man either.” Wow. This is my mom. Just recently, my mom made a statement that really perplexed and angered me. I grew up with a two parent household until I was twelve. My dad worked A LOT. He’s honestly one of the hardest working men I know, period. She said that she had to do almost everything on her own almost all her life. As soon as I mentioned my dad, she said if it wasn’t for her, our whole family wouldn’t have made it, totally dismissing him providing for us. She wonders why at 35, I’m single. I’m in therapy trying to undo what I have seen and learned from her in my teenage and childhood. It’s really hard to shake the frustration of it all.
@@LittleMissSunshine721 I feel you on how your upbringing unfolded. And, yes, Mom should surely have given some credit to your Dad. But I am also glad you are taking back some control. You are changing how your ship travels for the REST of your journey. I send you great support as you work yourself from the inside--so the outside results surely get better ! Yes, I am male--but I, too, understand dysfunctional upbringing in a slightly different way....
@@tonys9796 - What....!! ...Okra should be ashamed. She promoted Phil, Susie, Oz, Rachel, Burke amd the other whyte woman but didn't promote Michael. This is unreal.
I remember Oprah’s show, but I never sat and watched it by my own choice. If someone asked me what I remembered most about her show, I’d say the car episode and how predominately white the audience always was. I know she’s a successful black woman billionaire, but at what cost? She seems to play it safe when it comes to the appeasing white people. It leaves me feeling like she’s a bit emotionally hallow when it comes to Black culture.
Okra Wigfrey! Special K is too much! I remember the Movie The Color Purple and the controversy behind the characterization of all Black Men as a whole. One review said the book was a Hate Letter to Black Men. I’m not going to even mention the uproar behind Waiting to Exhale. Oprah did a show on that also. During the 80’s&90’s Brothers no matter how on point they were could not catch a Break. The Documentary “Frustrated” explaining why Black Men travel to Brazil looking for Releationships was the fall out from this. It was the one documentary that gave Black Men a voice to express their concerns. Real Talk.
@@SchuylerT.Colfax Thanks! I have seen that film. There is footage of Diary of a Tired Black Man 2 but it was never released. The premise of the story was that the daughter was turning out just like the mother due to the mother's influence. That first movie was released in 2008 and since then the way Black Men and Black Women relate has gotten progressively worse. Brothers really have a voice now due to the technology of social media.
I remember dating in the 90s and 00s and every BW had the same three videos in their collection. The Colour Purple, What's Love got to do with it and Waiting to Exhale. All BM bashing movies. Interesting times
THANK YOU for what you do! I was born in '82 and heard REAL TIME all the BS. Hearing my mother and 5 aunts talking about whatever Black Man hating BS that was the topic for that week. IF she's had this dream for "a long time", she needs to say what prevented her from accomplishing this dream. I imagine it can only be 1 of 3 things: 1. She wanted to: but her audience would have turned on her (because, her fanbase is APPARENTLY racist and would not respond well positive imagery as it pertains to black men)... meaning she'll degrade half of "her community" for a bigger audience... aka a SELLOUT 2.She wanted to: but the powers that be controlled what she could and could NOT put out. WHich explains why she went so hard on Bill Cosby (and others) but said nothing about her bestie Weinstein... meaning she was just a propaganda PUPPET... aka a person who's word should NOT be taken seriously because they're not even HER words or 3. She's just outright lying about the whole damn "dream" Anyway, GOOD VIDEO!
First of all I agree with 98% of your response but let's not give Cosby a pass he loved drugging thos snow bunnies to have sex with them thinking he was a white man Cosby ain't no roll model for black people Cosby was a buck dancing house boy because all those black shows he did was not how he lived his personal life he worship the grown WS walked on and he got to the point he thought he could do as they did and they humbled him real quick putting his old ass in jail sorry screw bill Cosby and most of our people still on his coat tail saying they did him wrong and he was innocent.. Innocent my ass he was guilty AF he was held accountable while the whiteboy was not
Winfrey sounds and looks desperate for any attention she can get these days really Oprah coming to the same black people you help to slander and destroy on a regular, pretending to be a helpful saint now...
I guess 25 years wasn't quite long enough to celebrate Black Fatherhood. I guess the casts of Twilight or Friends(all Wp)had to come before Black Fathers. 🙄
i saw color purple when it first came out. I was discussed with the movie. I Never watched it again. I watched a few of Her TV shows and stopped watching her. I have not seen anything she did or was in for over 20 years. Thank you for posting this. I have never cared for her or anything she did after color purple and a few of her shows.
All the women in my family watched her show daily then would make phone calls to talk about it. Even after I moved out my mom and grandma would call every week talking about did I see the show. I always said why would I want to watch that when they down talk men.....Great show my sistah 🤟🏾💙🆘🙏🏾💯
I'll be a 70 year old black man next year and some vibe I would get from the movie "The Color Purple" such that I've only seen about 2 minutes of it at best. It just rubs me the wrong way on many levels.
This really goes to show the power of black women, and what that power can do when used for evil. It’s imperative that they be held accountable, that their feet gets held to the fires they started. I appreciate this content. 👍🏾
For a black man like me living outside the United States 🇺🇸 ; I've always thought she ( Oprah) was a role model and a value plus for the black community ; sincerely I'm shocked and stunned by this dark side of hers ... p : s :- good 👍 job Kendra and greetings from Mauritius 🇲🇺
I had to comment again you got me standing up like the deacons do when the pastor get on a roll. I'm old school I've never seen or heard Oprah do a dam thing for the brothas
I never bought into okra. From the days she was in Chicago, I always thought she was a menace to the black community. It's a damn shame it took this long for people to see through her and her handler's B.S.
@@marysemichel4702 him being mixed is not as much the reason as was he was selected by the powers that be and she and her platform were used to validate him.
You're absolutely right. Homegirl became a billionaire off of dragging black men under the bus. And don't get me started on the movies she produced over the years as well. Her now supporting black men and fathers went over with those of us in the know as someone putting a hungry crocodile in a swimming pool full of kids...
Spot On! Where's the documentary "Surviving Harvey Weinstein'? Or deeper still, a documentary about what went on at Oprah "Leadership School For Girls' in South Africa?
Kendra start seasoning the Greens @5:25....💪🏿💪🏿😁 @22:45 I can't name one....& the ones she did bring on her show were already established HollyWeird trained Black Men...Oprah still trying to wiggle out that casket after her road dawg Gail (whom Oprah came in defense of) when she spoke on Kobe's passing now she trying to show her face again.
Oprah aka HARPO is spelled backwards for one of the characters in the movie The Color Purple which was a man that she destroyed and didn't respect and was very weak on the movie which makes a whole lotta sense, not to mention the movie was produced by a Jewish man named Steven Spelberg, the movie was made to destroy the black man's image in America and to push black women to love themselves more and hate us as black men alot, notice how it started and even with the fact that her character was very aggressive and mean, Celie character was a so called broken down black woman that was beaten and hurt by a black man Mister which was really (master a white man ) the movie was fiction to the max because black men and women in that time were together cause of the Jim Crow south in that time to where they needed each other so this was a bunch of bs but Oprah is a Gate Keeper like the rest of them black entertain elites in the tv movie industry....
Great video as usual Lady Kendra. This hit home for me as I used to watch Oprah with my wife back when she started until I notice the very same thing you stated here. I also told my wife how disappointed I was in both Oprah and Tyer Perey who NEITHER helped independent writers get a leg up in the industry. Not to mention that horrible show about high-level men who were surprised on their jobs by their wife and kids who all of sudden, wanted a LESS SUCCESSFUL Father and Husband to spend time with them. I actually wrote into Oprah's show and told her how DEMONIZING the show was to working men who provided well for their families, to then BLINDSIDE these men to the nation, as NOT doing enough for their families. The end of every show had these men stepping down from their high positions to a lesser one, to hang out with Mom and kids more. I think the show got so much backlash it was removed from her roster as I cannot find it. It's funny how the most successful Black men in America don't git her narrative as they understand the truth about finances and the process of hard work and education, which does not include, for the most part, the Black-Victim mindset. Baulder
Facts. You speaking truth. I too watched her growing up because my mom watched her every week day. When I came home from school, I would hear her voice. My mom was single and couldn’t keep a man for some strange reason, but she was very attractive, always had an attitude though. Her favorite movie was The Color Purple and The women if Brewster Place. My brothers hated those movies but all the girls wanted to watch it. I must say, unaware, I developed a strong dislike towards Mister in the movie Color Purple and anyone that remind me of him. What you are saying is true sis and so many grew up wanting to be like her because she helped Black Africans get through school. Wow never seen nothing pertaining to helping black boys through school. This is sad but thank you sis for bringing this out. All Praises for this awakening.
Oprah used to be a news anchor in Baltimore when I was a kid and was openly picked on by whites mainly "Marty Bass" on channel 13 every morning. Eventually she made him look stupid. I saw her at Reisterstown rd mall at the movies with Stedman when I was 10 yrs old. She had a small afro and was round like a butter ball. Stedman was driving a nice 280z. They were sitting 3 rows in front of me and my dad. I forgot what the movie was.
