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        <title><![CDATA[Oprah called a ‘fraud’ for calling out ‘white privilege’ since she’s so rich]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Twitter critics have a billion-dollar bone to pick with Oprah Winfrey.</p><p>The 66-year-old media mogul has been labeled a hypocritical &#8220;fraud&#8221; following the latest installment of her AppleTV+ series, &#8220;The Oprah Conversation,&#8221; featuring <strong>former NFL star and race activist Emmanuel Acho</strong>.</p><p>Acho, 29, who also hosts the web series &#8220;Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man,&#8221; joined Winfrey for a two-part episode, which included a segment inviting non-black viewers to ask difficult questions about racism and white privilege.</p><p>&#8220;Not all white people have power,&#8221; said one guest. &#8220;There&#8217;s plenty of poor, working-class white people. But I think that when we group all of white people together and we don&#8217;t recognize the fact that there&#8217;s a lot of white people that struggle, and it&#8217;s a different struggle as you mentioned because they&#8217;re not streaming upstream let&#8217;s call it . . .&#8221;</p><p>They continued, &#8220;I think that if we&#8217;re gonna come together and really attack racism and the inequities that are in this country and are in this world, that it&#8217;s important not to group all white people.&#8221;</p><p>Winfrey responded, &#8220;There are white people who are not as powerful as the system of white people — the caste system that&#8217;s been put in place. But they still, no matter where they are on the rung or ladder of success, they still have their whiteness.&#8221;</p><p>The veteran broadcaster also said white people have a &#8220;leg up.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;You still have your whiteness. That&#8217;s what the term &#8216;white privilege&#8217; is. It means that whiteness still gives you an advantage, no matter,&#8221; she said.</p><p>Winfrey&#8217;s current net worth stands at $2.6 billion, <strong>according to Forbes</strong>, and conservative pundits were quick to weaponize that fact on Twitter following her show.</p><p>&#8220;And now why is Oprah, maybe the richest black woman in the world, trying to shame white people as privileged? Miss Winfrey, you are the personification of WHITE PRIVILEGE!,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmendarizDis16/status/1290744579642318849?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said Irene Armendariz-Jackson</a>, Republican House Congressional candidate for Texas.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/WayneDupreeShow/status/1290871544017715201?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Said columnist Wayne Depree</a>, &#8220;Billionaire Oprah is now shaming white people for all their &#8216;easy success&#8217; in life.&#8221;</p><p>Conservative media head <a href="https://twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1290854923538759680" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Todd Starnes said</a>, &#8220;I pray for the day that America becomes a nation where someone like Oprah will be able to become a billionaire.&#8221;</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1290871380779597824" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Senator Ted Cruz</a> called the discussion &#8220;utter, racist BS.&#8221;</p><p>2A activist <a href="https://twitter.com/thejtlewis/status/1290825944110977026?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">JT Lewis asked</a>, &#8220;How did Oprah make 2.6 billion dollars if America is so racist?&#8221;</p><p>Representatives for Winfrey have not returned The Post&#8217;s request for comment.</p><p>Despite her billions, it was <strong>announced in July</strong> that the monthly print edition of &#8220;O&#8221; Magazine would come to an end after a 20-year run on newsstands, as a result of poor sales following the onset of the <strong>coronavirus</strong> pandemic.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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