On 9 and 10 June (yes, a two-nighter), Oprah Winfrey will host some discussion group (live) and the title of the 'chat' is 'Where Do We Go From Here?'. Yeah, it's a bit of chatter on racism, poor black neighborhoods, and inequality.
Oprah's OWN network will cover it (you'd need cable to get it) and the Discovery Channel as well (same deal).
The list of guests so far? It appears most all 'lean' a bit to the left. No conservative blacks invited.
After I've sat and pondered over it....I've come to five observations.
1. If you are under thirty.....you have to grasp that Oprah has been in some some retirement phase for roughly nine years. The final episode was in the spring of 2011, and part of the story was that they were in a declining numbers game. Most agree, around 2005....they simply peaked out. By 2007/2008, competition was now a problem for them.
Those of us over 45 probably do remember the earlier years of the program, and probably admit by 2007, we were watching alternate programming.
2. Based on the 'chatter', I would suggest that this is more to group up the Democratic base or Antifa-support people. They need them on one 'brand' or message. Joe Biden's background people and the DNC? They are probably in the mix and have written half the script that the Oprah team will use.
3. When you think about how this will be constructed....you have a bunch of affluent people (mostly white, intellectual types, and left-leaning) telling you of the marvelous cure that is needed to resolve all your ills.
So you ask this one big question....during the whole eight years of the Obama administration.....why didn't you introduce this list of solutions then?
4. Why two nights? They hope that you get x-number on the first night, and they talk about this for the next day, and they get some surge of folks for that next evening.
5. So we turn to black guys....who have been fairly knowledgeable and free-thinkers in the past five years. You probably have near 50-percent of them leaning toward Trump at this point. Will they fall for your propaganda piece and flip away from Trump?
No.....I just don't see that happening. In fact, they might be this 'bull' in the middle of a neighborhood who keeps asking stupid questions, and furthers the pro-Trump chatter in the days after the Oprah show. These are the guys who will NOT be invited to talk on Oprah's show, and intentionally left in the shadows.
My final take? Yeah, you really do need rich, affluent, liberal-leaning, intellectual, white people telling you how to fix things. Their methods have got you to the this present point.
