Happy Tuesday. I hope you enjoy this day no matter the outcome. I hope you enjoy life, your children, your spouse, and more importantly, I hope you are loved, this day. Make it a wonderful one.
Many of you know that I share with you exactly what is on my mind. I do not intentionally try to be rude and/or sarcastic about the truth. I just tell it like it really is. I must do this because too many of us will not. We go about our lives as though "the emperor has clothes on", when in fact, he is stark naked.
Moreover, I use to watch Oprah Winfrey years ago. I loved her. She made me proud. I was very happy to see a Black woman accomplish so much. She has done quite a lot, I believe for Black colleges and for all people, regardless of color.
The reason, I mention color is because Black people are in the most dire need for role models of any ethnic group. We do not have many people we can classify as "role mode;s". In fact, their are so few role models that Black children in most destitute areas in America are aspiring to be like the older girls in their communities, or the "video vixens".
Video vixens are the girls in the "rappers" videos that dress very provocative to expose their voluptuous bodies in suggestive manners. These girls shake their "money makers" in the rappers face and anywhere else these "rappers" want. These "vixens" are treated like pieces of delectable meat, waiting for their turn to be reduced to nothing but "leftovers", on the rappers plate.
But Oprah, has shown us that as women, we can use their mind to accomplish so much more than our bodies ever will. She is an example for all women. I love most things about her. But I question others.
Now you may say, "what ...you are going to "criticize" Oprah?
My response is I can not hold back truths just because Oprah is OPRAH. But I will say that I believe that Oprah is in a magnificent position to bring out some of the issues that I have mentioned in previous writings. She has a wide audience. She has exposure to the media that I am trying to obtain.
Why is Oprah not raising questions about these issues that plague Black Aericans? Could it be that she will lose many members of her audience?
Sometimes people that we admire the most need to be "called out" or challenged. Sometimes these people motives need to be analyzed and critiqued. We can not just give them "a past" because of who they are. This is not fair.
So this is my take on Oprah. I love her and admire her. I would just respect her more if she would expose what is going on in Black America more. She knows that most Black people do not read. She knows that too many Black men abandon their families. She knows that in the Black communities, their are more Black churches than there are businesses. She knows that this present day generation of Black children are considered by most "LOST".
I am a believer in exposure. The light needs to shine on these intricacies without the fear of being branded a traitor. Oprah is in an exceptional position to shine a light on these problems. They are too arduous to ignore or make believe they do not exist.
I believe that when a person is in a position of greatness, she should do great things. So what is greatness?
Greatness- a person who has achieved importance or distinction in a field: important; highly significant or consequential.
Oprah's prominence gives her, not only the access but the forum by which to discuss and hold public debates regarding the serious denigration of the Black people in America.
Oprah is a very intelligent woman. She must see what I see unless she has on visual blinders.
Oprah, we love you and cherish you but we need you. Our Black children are dying, they are ignorant, unloved and void of feelings. Please help us to expose these serious ills. Help us to expose that Dr. Martin Luther King's dream is dying, if it is not already dead. But I believe that as long as there is life, there is hope.
But hope eventually fades. Oprah, I hope that you will help us help ourselves.
It is important for me to say this because I feel this in my heart. No amount of money can purchase eternal life. So this means that all life comes to an end, even Oprah's. She can not take her billions of dollars to the grave with her. So what is to become of her great fortune,. when she is no longer gracing our presence?
Helping others is the name of game. Always has been, always will. No matter how many toys Oprah or anyone else can buy. There is no greater gift in life than to help others. I just hope helping in the Black community come sooner rather later.
Have a wonderful day.
L. for Love
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