Like I said: Timing is Everything. She has movie to promote and this Non story suddenly comes up Again. Above story says it all. I remember it well. Oprah really is so full of herself. 6:30PM Store is closed. Even if You are Pope, come back next day. These people cant care less about who You are. White black or purple. They want to go home to their family. Bye Oprah. Its all about Racism with Oprah but only when it suits her. She is playing it like it suits her That time and this time. This is how I see it
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Like I said: Timing is Everything. She has movie to promote and this Non story suddenly comes up Again. Above story says it all. I remember it well. Oprah really is so full of herself. 6:30PM Store is closed. Even if You are Pope, come back next day. These people cant care less about who You are. White black or purple. They want to go home to their family. Bye Oprah. Its all about Racism with Oprah but only when it suits her. She is playing it like it suits her That time and this time. This is how I see it
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I don't even know what's going on in here but I clicked the last page of this thread and see these two quotes at the top made me LOL! I can't count the number of times I either have to say this or think it.
Yes. I remember her crying Racism then. and it was right about when Crash came out. Absurd. She got turned away from Hermes because stores was Closed. Poor Oprah. they should just open the store for her at 3AM. She is Oprah, no? And I am pretty sure she would conveniently find something else racist. She;s got movie to push. She was walking in the store . bumped into mannequin and mannequin didnt say : "Sorry". Hermes mannequin is racist!. it was in Oprah's way when she wanted to buy $20K bag. LOL.
I think the poster on the other page made a good point when she said...
And I think there are a few reasons people find it difficult to empathise with the O in this particular situation:
1. Oprah is in the top 1%.
2. Bad customer service is not uncommon and there are many factors (size, shape, age, nationality etc.) in addition to race that are used to profile the potential value of a customer.
3. The Swiss are rude to everyone.
4. It probably would have been more productive to report the SA to the manager when the incident happened before Oprah talked about it in a public forum. Talking about the incident without having dealt with it in store comes across as passive aggressive, to borrow someone else's phrase... "it's like taking a cannon to a flea".
And I think there are a few reasons people find it difficult to empathise with the O in this particular situation:
1. Oprah is in the top 1%.
2. Bad customer service is not uncommon and there are many factors (size, shape, age, nationality etc.) in addition to race that are used to profile the potential value of a customer.
3. The Swiss are rude to everyone.
4. It probably would have been more productive to report the SA to the manager when the incident happened before Oprah talked about it in a public forum. Talking about the incident without having dealt with it in store comes across as passive aggressive, to borrow someone else's phrase... "it's like taking a cannon to a flea".
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Yeah, it's really a peeve of mine when people say that.
lol I might as well have wrote the movie given that I know all the dialogue.
LOVE the Color Purple....best bonding time with family!
I rolled my eyes at that one.
Did anyone notice that Tina Turner was indirectly involved in both incidents? With Hermes, Oprah was going to buy her a watch & going to Tina Turner's wedding in Switzerland?
Funny how it goes....
She should've just showed the bag. End of story, honestly. Just cause you think she can't afford it don't mean anything. Most of the time people don't walk to these high end stores with every piece of jewelry they own and I'm sure Oprah was looking regular as hell cause she really isn't that flashy. I know I've experienced this kind before, but if I don't like the service I go to the manager (Oprah should've done this if she didn't). Girl missed out on some major commission though lol.
I would like to hear the SAs side. Most SA's are told by their head bosses probably that a certain kind can't afford it, but like I said just cause they not going in there looking like a million bucks don't mean anything. People going to learn one day.
I would like to hear the SAs side. Most SA's are told by their head bosses probably that a certain kind can't afford it, but like I said just cause they not going in there looking like a million bucks don't mean anything. People going to learn one day.
Europe is a whole different ball of wax and then some. Unfortunately this episode is minor by Swiss standards.
In late summer 2007, when Switzerland elected its first black official, Ricardo Lumengo, at a council meeting in Biel, Lumengo was humiliated by party delegates of the Swiss freedom Party , as they ate bananas and chocolate "choco head" dramatically making monkeys' cries.
Since his election to the National Council Lumengo was repeatedly the victim of racist attacks as was the case in 2008 during his speech on May 1 in Langenthal where they threw him bananas. In October of the same year, he was insulted by a member of PNOS (Partei National Orientierter Schweizer) within the same party website with a contemptible text and a racist caricature.
Lumengo generally receives letters with racist insults after each media appearance. My swiss associates reassured me he would resign from frustration.
Oprah knows better....what she's doing is the equivalent of killing a mosquito with a gun.
No need to even acknowledge the ridiculous store. All the Nazis, racists and supremacists in the world are applauding them as we speak. Tourists are possibly planning a shopping pilgrimage to the store....
In late summer 2007, when Switzerland elected its first black official, Ricardo Lumengo, at a council meeting in Biel, Lumengo was humiliated by party delegates of the Swiss freedom Party , as they ate bananas and chocolate "choco head" dramatically making monkeys' cries.
Since his election to the National Council Lumengo was repeatedly the victim of racist attacks as was the case in 2008 during his speech on May 1 in Langenthal where they threw him bananas. In October of the same year, he was insulted by a member of PNOS (Partei National Orientierter Schweizer) within the same party website with a contemptible text and a racist caricature.
Lumengo generally receives letters with racist insults after each media appearance. My swiss associates reassured me he would resign from frustration.
Oprah knows better....what she's doing is the equivalent of killing a mosquito with a gun.
No need to even acknowledge the ridiculous store. All the Nazis, racists and supremacists in the world are applauding them as we speak. Tourists are possibly planning a shopping pilgrimage to the store....
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