{"id":27382,"date":"2009-10-22T14:46:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/10\/22\/im-pretty-sure-oprah-would-pre\/"},"modified":"2009-10-22T14:46:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T14:46:19","slug":"im-pretty-sure-oprah-would-pre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/22\/im-pretty-sure-oprah-would-pre\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m pretty sure Oprah would prefer to be white. Right? I mean, who wouldn’t?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Below the fold is the video of Oprah and her encounter with Atheists.<\/p>\n

“So you don’t believe in a higher being? … I’m puzzled. I’m confused. You don’t believe in god …? Maybe you believe in you don’t know you believe … maybe it’s more spiritual …”<\/p>\n

Oprah, has anyone ever told you that they assume you would prefer to not be black? There are people who think that, you know. I certainly hope that if someone said that to you … something like “I can’t believe you’d want to be black. Wouldn’t life just be easier if you were white….” that you would not find such a thing offensive.<\/p>\n

Or would you?<\/p>\n


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Below the fold is the video of Oprah and her encounter with Atheists. “So you don’t believe in a higher being? … I’m puzzled. I’m confused. You don’t believe in god …? Maybe you believe in you don’t know you believe … maybe it’s more spiritual …” Oprah, has anyone ever told you that they … Continue reading I’m pretty sure Oprah would prefer to be white. Right? I mean, who wouldn’t?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-77E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}