Oprah: Racism Will End When All the Old White People Die

And if you don’t think that old white people should die… then you’re a racist. Because what could be more racist than planning a post-racial utopia that depends on people of a certain race dying.

Quoting Oprah from the video below (starting at 3:14):

“There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it — in that prejudice and racism — and they just have to die!”

I like the emphasis with which she says it, as if she expects a whole bunch of people to jump into action and carry out her wishes, just like they do every day at Harpo Productions.

It’s not even a wish, it’s an order.

Also there’s the whole business about people only hating Obama because he’s black and not because of anything he did during his time in office.

  • WingedWolfPsion

    What, lol. I don’t think she’s actually entirely wrong. The people who are set in their ways, and grew up with that sort of racism, will eventually die. When they do, the younger generation, MOST of whom have fairer attitudes, will take over.

    • Renee smart

      Their parents teach them what they believe. We will all die. Oprah wishes people dead. Just wrong and evil. She hates.

      • WingedWolfPsion

        There’s a lot of people I wish were dead, too. I don’t hate them, but the world would be better off without them, and that’s a simple fact. Looking forward to nature taking its course doesn’t make a person evil, lol.

        • Renee smart

          her point of view looked pretty evil to me!!! her wanting our grandparents dead makes me wish she would just hurry up and die herself. F Oprah. She is a true hater.

          • WingedWolfPsion

            It’s all a matter of perspective. Personally, I see racists as evil. So, yes, Oprah is a bit evil as well. If your grandparents are racists, then they are, too. Again, though – stating that the world will change and improve after a certain generation dies, is not the same as wishing that they were dead. It’s just an observation on the nature of culture and life.

            With the passing of each generation, the problem decreases. While Oprah was being racist when she targeted ONLY caucasians as the cause of the issue, they are the PRIMARY source of the issue. This is because racism has the greatest negative impact when it lives in the minds of those who are in a position of privilege.

          • Renee smart

            I guess that is why it is upsetting to me about Oprah’s statements because my grandparents are not racist at all. They are very loving people. My grandparents are not alone. Oprah makes it clear she is racist. It makes white people see how unfair it is for a person of color able to say hateful things about another race when people against racism say nothing about how wrong she is to make racist statments. Hate works both ways. Oprah has shown us all who she really is. She was always known for making all people feel good about themselves but now she has made many people feel sad about what she said. Good people don’t desevre her hate.

          • WingedWolfPsion

            It’s a good lesson, however. (This does not excuse the nature of her comment). Now you understand how minorities have been made to feel all of their lives. Just the tiniest taste of that, and you feel sad. Imagine growing up hearing words like those all the time. On top of that, imagine being made to feel less; that you’re untrustworthy, and not as intelligent or capable as those around you.

            Folks privileged to be born white are rarely capable of truly imagining what that feels like. The signs of racism are not always overt – sometimes they are subtle, and look innocent on the surface, but are no less damaging.

            If you want to get to the source of Oprah’s racism, you must first understand what racism did to her, and to other minorities. You must comprehend the psychological damage they endured as the result of it. You suffered only a moment of sadness – they’ve had to put up with bias for their entire lives. Yes, even Oprah.

            Oprah may have responded to the pressure of racism by developing reverse racism herself; but that would never have happened if she hadn’t been subjected to racism in the first place, and seen the tremendous damage that results from it.

            Remember that you were not damaged by Oprah’s comment. You lost nothing. Do not compare yourself to someone of a minority race who faces racism from white folks. There is no real comparison there. Oprah is not in a position of privilege above you. Instead, she has fought her way into a position of equality; that is all.

            That is the reason why her comment is less serious than one coming out of the mouth of a white male. If you do not understand this, perhaps you need to do more research; or simply accept that your position of privilege allows you to never have to face such a thing.

            Does it seem fair, that her comment would be treated as less serious than a similar one from a white male? No, I suppose it’s not fair. Racism isn’t fair. That’s the entire point. Reality is what it is, though. Oprah’s comment will not make white children feel as though they’re less worthy of respect than their darker-skinned peers. Their position of privilege is still intact, so the damage she has done is essentially none at all. If that’s not fair, it’s not fair because of white privilege and white racism, not because what she said wasn’t wrong.

            Dwell on that for a while. Try to understand the implications of it.

  • Noremorse

    I’m still waiting on her to say white people specifically. Or are you all that self centered?

  • Centrist

    I read over a hundred comments below. Did any of you even take the few minutes to watch the video? She was talking of older generations, nowhere did she say older white folks. And she didn’t wish for their deaths, she said those values will die with them. Just as younger generations are more inclined to have more open views on a number of things, including gay marriage, legalization of pot, etc.

    And calling her racist…while distinguishing yourselves with comments on the Chinese, the Jews, the Japanese, etc?

    Find your anger wherever you want, but don’t blame it on someone else. You’re just angry.

  • JustSpeakingTheTruth

    Its funny because I had to write a paper on Oprah Winfrey and how she is a hero and a great leader but NO! She doesn’t understand racism and saying older white people need to die come on, what a douche move. Yea there has been times where the white race was racist but that was back then. Martin Luther King Jr. solved that problem in a way but not enough, today there is not that many racists as there were back then. People shouldn’t judge by colors that is stupid and imature. Racism will never die no matter if you kill off any race, it is really retarded to say and think of something like that! Plus today African Americans can get jobs and opportunitys which is a good thing. I didn’t come here and own slaves or anything like that so why should we suffer other white men’s mistakes?

  • JustSpeakingTheTruth

    Also Oprah Winfrey got all of her opportunities from white people and became one of the richest women in the world. So she should never had said that! If it wasn’t for the white race she wouldn’t be in America and wouldn’t be so rich so she can stfu!

    • Kusch Bruce

      So you think that because whites gave Oprah an opportunity that she is now forever indebted to whites, like some sort of perpetual servant? Sorry to inform you, Oprah is still black and she’s still going to stand and fight for her heritage.

      And Oprah never said old white people should die. It’s obvious most of you either didn’t watch the video or simply fell for the bait the author set.

  • Paul Redmon

    in my opinion I dislike Obama because he is a pathological liar, he hides the facts about everything, and maybe this is brought on by the fact he never acomplished anything as a senator, or community organizer and has no idea how to lead or be president. All he knoews how to do is apologise to everyone in the world.

  • PhoenixRisingMoon

    Has anyone noticed that she said, “There are generations of people, older people,” and that she DIDN’T say older WHITE people? Hmm… how about that! I don’t like Oprah, I think she gets far too much credit for he things she has done, and people worship her. But, people have blown this way out of proportion. Racist people of all races and ages are despicable.

  • Rhonda Eskew

    Racism comes in all colors. Hatred is hatred no matter what color you are. I use to respect her be I agree she has shown her true colors of who she really is. I have no respect for her for disrespecting and attacking the white community on this issue. Racism will never die. You are not born a racist. It is learned throughout our society. I thought Oprah had enough sense to know this but obviously she has shown a lot of her stupidity instead during this interview…

  • Erin

    Holy crap! I truly can’t believe it when people say Obama isn’t respected because he’s black, because it always makes me ask the same question: Where were these people when Bush was in office? Bush was the most lampooned president in history, with SNL taking shots at him every week, a cartoon entitled “Little Bush” (or something along those lines) on Comedy Central, and celebrities constantly talking crap about him for 8 years! Oh, and let’s not forget the shoe throwing incident. Who are these people kidding? It’s true, some people hate Obama because he’s black, but the majority hate him because he’s ruining the country and has no business being in office.

    • Renee smart

      Hmmmmm. I think people hate his white half as well for ruining the country.

  • AmyColleen Klapp

    Wow – ms oprah is sumphin else she is! talking about prejudice like it is a ONE WAY STREET! “the color of ones skin”….being treated a certain way because of the color of your skin, the color of your “black skin”….then the way oprah goes on to call it terrorism….wow

    Oprah is MORE of a racist than anyone I know personally and is doing nothing more than spreading division and racism by speaking “white” this an “black” this all the time!

  • peace of God towards all

    HATRED ..WANTING PEOPLE TO DIE…ALL THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SKIN COLOR,,,IT HAS TO DO WITH THE HEART AND MIND..MANY WANT TO KEEP IT GOING..AND I GUESS IT WILL UNTIL JESUS COMES AND SETS EVERYTHING STRAIGHT..GOD CREATED US ALL BEAUTIFULLY IN HIS IMAGE…PEACE TOWARDS ALL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE…MUCH LOVE!

  • Stan

    Sadly, she may be right although she put it very clumsily.

    • Renee smart

      She is not right. She is wrong!!!!! She is the BIGGIST RACIST!!!!

  • Ken Deemer

    The two biggest racist I know live in the WHITE HOUSE. Has any of these people checked out the Black Pathers lately? Have they even looked at the news to see the very high number of Black on White assults and murders including the killing of babies by Blacks? Oh… as far as them checking the news…obama does need to keep up with the news….that is the only way he finds out about major problem such as the tortue and killing of our ambassador and selling guns to Mexican drug lords to kill Americans and Mexican teen agers. Oh…but he does get brifed on ONE murder at the LA Airport and a school.

  • rick

    Again people, if we are truly what they say we are. How does America
    Become the most diverse country on the planet?
    After all China is China, Russia is Russia. Yet a country started by WHITES,
    In which less than 2% ever owned slaves and died to free them.
    Help fight for civil rights of blacks, and voted in the first black president.
    Yet we are still labeled as racist. Who is really to blame? Jackson, Sharpton,etc.

    • Renee smart

      Sounds like you are on the right track.

  • Guy Smiley

    Can you imagine if white people had the WET network, White Entertainment Television? Hmmmmm.

    • Renee smart

      ya everyone can have their racist thing but oh no not a white person.

  • Honestgirl

    I am racist because I hate living with blacks they are the worst roommates ever . Old people have nothing to do with it it’s just black people are disgusting

  • Prince Arthas

    LOLOLOL – plz die in a fire.

  • Prince Arthas

    omg – sigh – are you back from shooting up your school?

  • Mark W

    I will submit that by her implied and myopic definition of how racism would end, does she not realize that she, herself, would also need to die as well? I mean, seriously, do you think in her lifetime she will ever say, “We’re done! They are all dead. Now let’s all focus our energies elsewhere.”

    I am not saying the problem will solve itself but I am saying that the next generation cares less about skin color. If that was her point, then it was poorly worded response and in a person as influential as hers I have to think she knew what she was doing 100% of the time. Look how often she looked to the left before she spoke, she was choosing her words carefully and likely for a purpose.

  • racist white people

    White people should die! Fuck them!

  • vstony10 .

    people need to stop being soo angry. the woman didnt say all white people should die, she said old white ones that are marinated in racism need to die out. they are old anyway what they waiting for. there is too much overpulation. they need to make room for new fresh babies. lol. but i personally dont think that would solve the problem. I just think everyone need to be a bit more tolerant of their fellow human beings. It hard for people who has never experience bad racism to understand. but we are human beings, whateva the colour. I relate to people according to each individual not as a race. There are good and bad people in every single race. Every one as a whole needs to start treating people as individuals

  • david

    it’s people like her and Obama who are racist they openly hate whites and the world would be a better place if both were dead

  • Ishkabibble

    She is only talking about this in an attempt to stay revelant.
    Bad attention is better than no attention!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • WHITE

    And you too can die,

  • mememeee

    I used to like Oprah but, the real her seems to be coming out after her TV show ended. WIthout older white people, she would not ever have a show or have any money. She would still be a poor fat black supremacist in Mississippi.

  • Eddy

    They all need to die to end the cycle.

  • SamG

    FP truncated her comment to fit their purposes, I suspect. We won’t know unless we can see the full quote.

  • anonymous

    I didn’t once hear Oprah say “all old white people should die”. She is referring to the dumbass racist white folks in general. Oprah said nothing racist so don’t try to make her out to be the bad person, the person who wrote this article is a piece of $**t. Change the title .

    • Bob Papadazzio

      Even if she’d said what you claim she said, it would still be construed as racist, moron.

  • Jay EFF

    Well I guess us whitey’s have to die

  • Jesse Bowman

    Yeah I think Oprah like many people in the world is a racist. All her little followers are probably racist also. Race will never quit being an issue. Racism exist as does prejudice and other forms of judging others by creed, sex, bank account size, and way of life. People have no respect for each others differences and I can’t say it’s necessary. Want everyone to be equal :-p paint them all green and stick a feather in their ass. Then everyone will be equally silly looking :-) and it still won’t change a damn thing.

  • Richie

    Unfortunately I don’t think racism will end when all the old white people die. The KKK still exists and it’s almost all full of young people. It’s disgusting, how these extreme racists are still in existence and teaching other children and people to be racist, to keep it going. They’re the ones who are bad, not who they target.

    I personally believe that hate groups such as the KKK or American Society for Truth About Homosexuality (It’s funny because they are completely wrong, they have no real science!), or whatever it’s called should be outlawed, and supporters or members should receive hefty fines, or even be imprisoned. I don’t think there should be freedom of speech if it is hate speech.

    • Jeff Jackson

      NAACP, Black Panthers, Al Sharpton, Jessie J are the biggest racists and race baiters going on today in America.. the KKK is not the problem.. Black Racism towards everyone else is the problem…

      • Bob Papadazzio

        I don’t even see how people mention the KKK anymore. No one takes them seriously, and half the time they aren’t even permitted to “rally” anywhere near people… whereas if someone mentions the Black Panthers trying to intimidate voters with riot batons, the Department of Justice steps in and defends them themselves.

    • Bob Papadazzio

      Hmm… no mention of any non-white hate groups in there. Don’t believe in the equality of shared guilt?

      After all, the Black Panthers still exist (don’t forget them standing outside voting polls in Illinois with police batons, or protesting outside Trayvon Martin’s family’s home despite their request for them to leave, then calling them Uncle Toms for it)

      No mention of those black soldiers who provoked an altercation in Washington the other day and stabbed a white soldier who was on his last day of enlistment after calling him a “Cracker” either, or any of that poor white kid who was set on fire by two black kids who yelled “You get what you deserve, white boy!” at him while he burned. No mention of that white Australian baseball player who got shot by three black kids “Just for the fun of it.”

      Wonder why Obama isn’t taking to television to talk about how any of those three kids might’ve “looked just like his son” if he had one?

  • Sociologist

    the concept of racism is based on power in society…right now white people are the majority and have the power…an African American cannot be racist due to the fact that they have no power in society’s institutions. White people are the majority and can therefore shape public and social policy in their favor; or what they feel is the right way.

    • Jeff Jackson

      You are an idiot… Do you even know what the definition of Racism is? Anybody can be racist… Idiot

  • Truth

    Racism exists when prejudice+power combine to form social constructs,
    legislation and widespread media bias that contribute to the oppression
    of the rights and liberties of a group of people. Racism is systemic,
    institutional, and far reaching. It is the prevalence of racism within
    social structures and institutional norms, along with implicit and
    explicit enforcement by members of a group, that allows racism to run
    rampant and unchecked. America is a country seeped in white privilege.

  • Rajinder Rai

    BEFORE PEOPLE CRITICISE OPRAH ON HER VIEWS…. DID YOU KNOW:

    * 100s yes 100s of holocausts were carried out by European and American ‘white’ government’s across the world. Research Namibia, Tasmania, India and America’s, Australia and Africa in addition to every state white man tried to conquer. They are still doing it now to brown people in the Middle East.

    * the slave triangle was based on a belief that black man was not human. Millions were killed and displaced, raped and tortured… And any left had their cultures and names erased.

    * that todays, yes today’s, evolution theories are grounded in Darwinism and Darwin was a racist scum, who actually justified genocide of what he termed inferior species of black and brown man.

    *and that Nazism was developed from America and England based on Eugenics that extended social Darwinism to annhiliate everything non white…

    I could write a thousand points here. White mans govts and beliefs caused and still causes destruction, justified by a false white supremacist belief. White govts use excuses like spreading democracy, nation building and regime changes which are blatant lies and which used to be called spreading the word of Christianity, God and civilisation. These old views are still fresh and masqueraded under vaccines, illegitimate wars, currency, sanctions and aid that kill thousands of black and brown people daily. The white mans belief in their supremacism is still alive today and continues through false propaganda to commit genocide on everything non white. Just because the TV and white textbooks doesnt explain real history and events doesn’t mean it isn’t happening and that Oprah is wrong.

    She is therefore correct in saying:

    “There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it — in that prejudice and racism — and they just have to die!”

    • Shaniqua

      Not just old white people would have to die. But old people off all races.
      Slavery is still a very real thing in Africa and it’s not done by whites but blacks.
      Just look at the Emirates and their slaves. They literally just take their passports and beat them if they attempt to leave or complain.

    • Bob Papadazzio

      “100s of holocausts were carried out by European and American ‘white’ government’s across the world.”
      Strange. No mention of Hussein, Chairman Mao, the Hutu of Rwanda, the Housas and Yorubas in Nigeria, the Khmer Rouge, the Libyan rebels who went around killing black men indiscriminately in their most recent scuffle, the Armenian genocide, the current state of Sudan, etc etc. Because none of those perpetrators were white I guess?

      “the slave triangle was based on a belief that black man was not human.”
      Strange… that’s the same reason the Japanese gave for using Chinese and Manchurians for live bayonet practice in WW2 and prior… blame that on the whites too I guess.

      “Nazism was developed from America and England based on Eugenics that
      extended social Darwinism to annhiliate everything non white…”

      Laughably selective wording, but let’s look at the facts here: Nazis just wanted to kill everything non-white? Uh… there were three primary Axis countries in WW2: Germany, Italy… Japan. The notion that Hitler was just killing non-whites is actually pretty historically moronic.

      Let’s look at a breakdown of Hitler’s armed forces and allies: Germans, Italians, Japanese, Bosnians, Albanians, Swedes, Arabs, Cossacks, Spaniards, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Indians,
      Let’s look at Hitler’s primary victims: Poles, Slavs, Romani, European Jews, homosexuals inside German territories, communists, Freemasons.
      Odd: for a man who just wanted to kill off “non-whites”, his list of allies includes more non-whites than his list of victims.

  • google

    if white people would stop bowing down to these nigs and see what they rilly are get 8 to 10 whites and walk any where in alabama at night where blacks live and and come back and tell me how they feel about blacks thean.

  • Teddy Simon

    Almost 2 hundred year and some are still using it as a crutch

  • Guest

    Dis Niga Serias?

  • Shaniqua

    I suppose if you are old and washed up you have to find things to keep yourself interesting.

  • Shaniqua

    Not just old white people would have to die. But old people off all races.
    Slavery is still a very real thing in Africa and it’s not done by whites but blacks.
    Just look at the Emirates and their slaves. They literally just take their passports and beat them if they attempt to leave or complain…

  • Knight

    She is nothing but a knee gar………….her money means nothing………fk her

  • Kenneth V. Tellis

    RACISM is not limited to the White Race alone as Oprah Winfrey insinuates and there are Black Americans that are also racists. Thus Oprah’s argument is facetious to say the least. But, it does seem to me that Oprah herself is very biased in her outlook and it comes out without her ever thinking about it,

  • DB1954

    After reading the comments here so far, one thing is clear: The Kluxers couldn’t have invented a better plan to divide America by race than Barack Obama has since 2008. He has thoroughly racialized the entire country, and now he’s racializing the DOJ.

  • pissed

    omg…i never knew about this…..sick..

  • presto

    MSNBC Is a god dang joke, bro. The only thing they contribute is “Lock-Up” which, by the way, is where they recruit their staff.

  • H

    So just a little FYI, it’s not just white people that are racist. I as a white person have had to deal with racism from every other race and ethnic group; black people, asain people, Mexican people…. How about we stop blaming white or even just other people for everything? People suck, doesn’t matter what race you are.

  • M_T_C723

    Oprah is a bitter old self loathing black woman who lives in the past. The earth will be a better place when SHE is dead.

  • AJ

    Racism will end when people like her realize that saying things like she just did is racist too.

  • scott wissinger

    it is what it is she in my eyes said nothing wrong. regarding to the the race of the whites which i am the older generation will say the raciest things because that’s what they were brought up on which is wrong in their eyes is right in my eyes its not! love all treat all with respect it is very great feeling its beyong a great great feeling “_

  • David_Smith

    What a racist thing to say Oprah. You’re racism is on display for the WHOLE world to see.

  • Frank Riddle

    Firstly the blacks didn’t sell slaves to the Europeans because they wanted to. It was catch and sell your neighboring tribes or have your tribes sold into slavery. So they helped the Europeans round up slaves so they wouldn’t becomes slaves themselves. It was wrong but had the Europeans not come and threaten their lives there wouldn’t have been any slaves to sell into slavery in the first place.

    Additionally Oprah is right. Until the older generation who were brought up in a racist environment die, we won’t be fully free as a collective consciousness and globalized civilization of racism.

    White people are among the most evil and satanic people on the planet. The only nuclear bombs ever dropped were by white people. The crusades in Jesus name were committed by white people. Two world wars were perpetuated by white people.

    The oppressive one percent who rule the world are white people.

    The corporations who destroy the environment are owned by white people.

    I could go on and on.

    This doesn’t mean they all need to die today.

    It means that until they grow old and die and their children who haven’t been raised in the quagmire of racist thinking grow up and take over ruling the world, corporations, politicians, we will not see a better tomorrow.

    When the older generation passes away as it says in the bible, then paradise on earth can be realized.

    More and more people are mixed blood nowadays.

    Eventually racism will pass away when those raised into racism pass away and the majority of those alive the new generation are those who never believed into racism, lead the world into a new area of technology and space exploration.

    If we cannot end racism, how can any extra terrestrial beings ever fully introduce themselves?

    • Bob Papadazzio

      Uh, the Africans actively went out and sought slaves. Consult the history of the Barbary slave trade: Ottoman North Africans literally went out on raids to get slaves. You can’t tell me that Ottomans were picking up slaves as far away as the British Isles and Iceland just to “protect themselves”.