WINFREY SLAMS SCHOOL CRITICS
OPRAH WINFREY has hit back at critics who insist she should be using her money to open schools for children in the US instead of South Africa - but admits she doesn’t talk publicly about her America-based good deeds.
The media mogul opened a $40 million (£21 million) school for girls in the impoverished nation Tuesday (02JAN06) and slams critics who claim she isn’t doing enough in her own country. She says, "First of all, I am doing a lot in the United States, I just don’t talk about it.
"What is different about this country (South Africa) is that there is this desperate yearning to know better and do better that you just don’t have in the United States.
"You just don’t have it, because the opportunity has always been there.
"My idea was to understand, ‘Yes, you come from nothing. But oh, what a something you will become if given the opportunity.’"
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After more than a century long struggle to eliminate Segregation in South Africa, the clueless Oprah flys in and builds a SEGREGATED ALL BLACK school for girls. ALL the South African news media attacks her and she still doesn’t get it.
Comment by JET — January 5, 2007 @ 4:35 am