Oprah!
I would watch, but I hate Oprah more than Jerry Springer. At least Jerry doesn't pretend to have any redeeming social value. I just think that Oprah is a very negative role model for people. And her latest venture where she is giving away a bunch of money seems to me to just be a rich woman pandering to the basest instincts of people who will probably end up blowing whatever she gives them and be no better off than when they started or worse, will end up in a worse situation because they didn't have to earn the money.
i don't think oprah should be president. i don't like her much anymore; she's gone all self-glorifying and weird. i like dr. oz, though.
She gives such a small portion of her fortune up the few times she's actually giving HER money up. It's the equivalent of me giving a homeless guy a dollar. (hey, thanks for the coffee, but i'm still homeless) I give what I can, but I'm sick of rich people publicizing how much they give to make normal people give more. If we did a ratio of how much we normal-folk gave versus our salaries versus the celebrities and their salaries, normal folk would win every time.
Makes one think...
W.W.O.D.?
Has she built any schools for poor, black girls in America? (She may have and I did not pay attention.) Charity begins at home. I suppose with wealth such as hers, she can do what she wants, anywhere in the world she wishes. I wonder if she will ever adopt? I suppose Brad and Angelina and Madonna scooped most of them up....
doesn't it make sense that her money will go further and accomplish more in the poorest countries in the world than in the richest, most wasteful one?
Original Post by pgeorgian:
i think what oprah's doing for girls in africa is pretty fabulous, actually. poor black girls in america may not have good schools, but they do have schools (and the problems with the american school system are beyond $$$).
doesn't it make sense that her money will go further and accomplish more in the poorest countries in the world than in the richest, most wasteful one?
Actually, America gives more charity and aid (not just at home but to other countries as well) than any other nation in the world (not wasteful in my book).
"Gaudiani said Americans give twice as much as the next most charitable country, according to a November 2006 comparison done by the Charities Aid Foundation. In philanthropic giving as a percentage of gross domestic product, the U.S. ranked first at 1.7%. No. 2 Britain gave 0.73%, while France, with a 0.14% rate, trailed such countries as South Africa, Singapore, Turkey and Germany." - USA Today
Just an interesting fact for the day.
Original Post by pgeorgian:
i think what oprah's doing for girls in africa is pretty fabulous, actually. poor black girls in america may not have good schools, but they do have schools (and the problems with the american school system are beyond $$$).
I have nothing more to say about Oprah, but the biggest problem with American schools are parents who refused to become involved. I was the president of the PTO at the Jr. High when my kids were in that school, PTA president at their elementary before that, band boosters, athletic boosters, active on district and school committees and the level of parent apathy I witnessed while doing these activities was appalling. I remember one year asking if parents would commit to giving just one hour of volunteer time during the year to help make the school better and couldn't even get that level of commitment. At the school, if the parents of the approximately 800 students would have given just that one hour, we could have had about 1200 hours of volunteer service. Instead we had parents like this:
A parent came to a meeting I was attending at the Jr. High and I heard her talking to the community liaison. She was upset with the school. Being a single mom, she had given the school permission to let her son ride either the bus that went by her home or the bus that went by her mother's home. She felt it was the schools fault that when she told her son to ride the bus to their home, that HE decided to disobey her and ride the bus to grandma's house instead. It wasn't her son's fault for disobeying her or her fault for not teaching her son proper respect for her authority, it was the schools fault.
That is an example of the piss poor attitude among parents in this country that is at the root of the decline of American schools.
Sorry for the rant and I'm not really directing this at you pgeorgian, but when people start bad mouthing American schools but fail to share the blame with the decline of parenting in this country, then it just pisses me off. And if you don't volunteer at your kid's school and aren't involved in trying to help solve the problems there, then you have no right to complain.
Original Post by pgeorgian:
i'm watching. and having a glass of milk.
i don't think oprah should be president. i don't like her much anymore; she's gone all self-glorifying and weird. i like dr. oz, though.
I concur.
Wow Oprah-haters unite. I personally like the woman, and i think she does a lot more good than A LOT of people in this world who are rich, no one seems to want to give her any credit for anything she does in this world...
Original Post by star_dust_03:no one seems to want to give her any credit for anything she does in this world...
I give her full credit for the good she has done. She gives a lot of her money and herself, and I think it should be commended. That being said, a person can be generous but still be and come off as arrogant. While I recognize what she's done, I still have to observe that her magazine does have the overall theme of every issue having a picture of herself, front and center. Yes, it's "Oprah" magazine, but every issue?
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