'It just felt kind of sad': Oprah Winfrey opens up about Paula Deen's use of the N-wo

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While in Switzerland for her friend Tina Turner's wedding Oprah told ET how she walked into a designer store to choose herself a treat.
But the assistant did not recognise her and having assumed that she would not be able to afford a bag ignored the billionaire.

After waiting unsuccessfully for acknowledgement Oprah quietly left, after deciding she did not want to give the assistant her commission.

She told ET that while she no longer experienced overt racism such as name-calling, she experienced discrimination.
'It shows up for me if I'm in a boardroom or situations where I'm the only woman or I'm the only African American person within a hundred mile radius.

'I can see in the energy of the people there, they don't sense that I should be holding one of those seats. I can sense that.
'But I can never tell, "Is it racism? Is it sexism?"'





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[kia027]

was it not some years ago Oprah was denied entry into Louis Vuitton

and now some salesperson did not acknowledge her in a store -- I guess dem neva know she have de money fi buy ar tings

As for the discrimination-- it is both racism & sexism Oprah!