My Tribute to Oprah and her Show thread

[TheNoNamedOne]

I think Oprah is a wonderful human being. Many of her shows move me, like the one today.

This thread is for talking about specific Oprah shows, her life, and how she has helped improve the lives of many with her good will and philanthropy.

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Today she had a show with the theme of Pay it Forward, with the simple concept of being generous with what you have been given in life and to somehow pay it back/forward in the hopes that that would encourage others to do so, too.

Several months ago she gave all her audience members (300) a debit card worth one thousand dollars and a video camera. They were to use that debit card for acts of kindness and to record the event and to reappear on the Oprah Show to tell how they spent that thousand dollars. Today was the show where they had come back.

Lots of moving stories came out in that show.

[socalheart]

I like the Oprah show. I don't recall many episodes right now, but I have that pregnant brain thing going. I do recall an episode with Anderson Cooper though. I like him. :D There was also that Asian woman who used to be on The View. They were doing a three part story on somwhere. Dang! I wish I could remember it. It was a year or two ago.

[TheNoNamedOne]

I like the Oprah show.

It is very inspiring, isn't it?

On today's show there was a segment where a black man in his 70's enrolled in 1st Grade so that he could learn how to read. When he was a child he could never attend school because he had to help his family earn a living. His mother's wish was that her son could eventually go to school. Well, she died when he was young and had to keep on working.

When he arrived at the school to enroll in his 70s the teachers were reluctant to let him join the class with the kids because of his age (at first I thought that perhaps it was racial because they were white but that was not the case), but did decide to let him.

Well, little by little he did learn how to read and these women just opened up a whole new world to him and they were all guests on Oprah's show showing video of him sitting with the kids in class. In the studio this old man was just crying his eyes out with appreciation to them and he was so grateful that his mother's wish for him could eventually come true, and he called these two women his and his mother's angels. Even Oprah was a little teary eyed.

Very sweet.

[Asshat]

I'm not one for the teary-eyed reality shows. I don't watch much TV anyway. But Oprah is truely a wonderful human being and I can not help but to be amazed at the way in which she brings people together.

The New Orleans thread here, and of course the dog fighting thread all move so quickly to racism-also pervasive in American society. Oprah bridges that gap by turning the page and working on issues that know no color boundries.