Wednesday, January 17, 2007
hullo duck.
this might be outdated to some of you but Oprah Winfrey just built this huge ass school in South Africa. The pictures came out of Newsweek seemed more of something out of The O.C but is actually meant for increadibly poor girls, who (based on what i thought of the article) just managed to tug at the fat black lady's heartstrings.
(there was this girl who was interviewed by O and at one point gave oprah a hug and said she was her new mother or smth like that and she got in. now, O isnt very discerning is she)
so she received alot of flak for doing things in a gargantuan way in a country which isnt used to her ways. that in the pretext of providing poor girls an education she is actually showing them a way of (somewhat extravagant) life. to which she responds, "its my money so i can practise charity however i please." well she didnt actually say that. but its wat she meant.
i know. at one point i wanted to be Oprah.
like. watch any episode and just look at the way she speaks. her style (of programming) has been copied by almost everyone but i really dont think anyone can do how she speaks. and that's probably why she is the most powerful black lady in Hollywood and only second to C.Rice in the whole country.
But then i realised that she is so. uhm, how should i put it. i think her motive is like this:
this is what i have done and this is what the world should know about me. hence i am going to give the poor person crying in this episode more that she(its mostly a she) could ever imgaine in front of the millions who are watching right now and who want to be me.
help and make sure ppl know about it. its a pretty good strategy. but kinda boring after an episode too many.
and then i realised that she is just like Mother Theresa except that the other lady wasnt half as rich as her. which, is quite clever.
so i still want to be Oprah. not in this world. cos that would be just too cruel. and wrong. as idealistic as it sounds i think charity is the last thing you should shout to the world about cos somehow that defeats the whole purpose of things.
but in some parallel universe where i wont feel bad for being beetchy i think i want to be Oprah Winfrey.
posted R @
1:57 am
