Now I am going to get str8 to my point! This is my first post in a while and I don't want to create a wordy post. So here it is...Is it me, or is Oprah Winfrey reaaaally loving black folks right now. When she had her T.V. show on dem white folks channel, it seems as if her shows were geared towards them. Every now and then we were shown some love, but the complaint was that she did not have enough blacks on the show, and it was not catered to us enough. She made Dr. Phil, Dr. Oz, and another dude popular but left us in the wind.Now when she kicked her own Network off, it seemed to still be geared towards good ole white folk, but the ratings were not as expected, and it seems as if she had to come back home to the good ole black folks. I love O and everything, but I think that we should have been at the forefront a long time ago. Why is it that when white people create there shows, it does not matter if blacks watch it or not. They do not have us in mind when it comes to their shows, but when we do our shows, we have to worry about them liking it or not. Another thing that I do not like about us viewer's, many people were afraid to call out the O about it. It was like she got a pass for not putting us up front. Now I see that all of her shows on OWN are For us By Us. It's like she is saying that "the white folks aint with me anymore, let me head on back down there with the black folks". She has interviewed black after black in the last few months. While I am not mad at her, but why now? Why wait to the ratings drop and then decide to cater to us. Now, it makes me ask the question, would she cater to us if she still had her white audience? Let me know what you think!
