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Open Post: Oprah Admits She Wanted to Be White

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Media mogul Oprah Winfrey once admitted she wanted to be white, which explains a lot.

Oprah, 65, made headlines last week when she interviewed Michael Jackson’s two accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck in her special called “After Neverland”. Both men appeared in the controversial HBO documentary Leaving Neverland, in which they claimed Jackson molested them as youngsters.

Jackson died of respiratory and cardiac arrest following a propofol overdose in 2009 at age 50.

Oprah’s interview with Robson and Safechuck was empathetic and supportive. She even denounced Jackson who was acquitted of similar accusations after a 14-week molestation trial in 2005.

Now an old Oprah interview has resurfaced in the Internet graveyard where nothing stays buried forever.

In the old Barbara Walters interview, that originally aired in 1988, Oprah explained that she once wished she was white.

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Gayle King: ‘I wasn’t scared during R. Kelly interview’

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Gayle King was praised by her colleagues for her calm composure during her career-defining interview with troubled singer R. Kelly.

Kelly was previously arrested and charged with aggravated sexual abuse. His interview with King was his first since he bonded out of jail last weekend.

Kelly was agitated and aggressive during the explosive interview which aired on CBS This Morning. King, 64, remained calm and unbothered as Kelly stood over her while loudly professing his innocence.

Her quiet composure sparked hundreds of memes on social media, including the meme below.

“I was not scared,” King told the Oprah Magazine, where she serves as editor-at-large. “I never thought he was going to hit me.“

King said she realized how scary the scenes looked “after Oprah and my kids Kirby and Will called me to ask if I was okay… But I was never worried he was going to hurt me. I was more worried that he was going to get up and leave,” King explained.

“So what I was really thinking to myself was: I’m not done with this interview, so I’m going to let him have his moment. If I stood up even to comfort him, that could have been his invitation to say ‘This is over.’ So I didn’t interrupt his anger and let him have that.”

Sources say the interview saved King’s career as an anchorwoman. She was rumored to have one foot out the door at CBS when her contract ends soon.

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Is it ever OK to reveal on a first date, that you masturbate? Tonight on “Conversations Of A Sistah”

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We’re in 2019 and the rules of dating seemed to have changed and with the arrival of new technology, the rules of social interacting and etiquette have changed as well.

Nowadays, technology is aiding in the demise of many relationships before they even get started. Because the cell phone, computer, and other electronics are such a big part of people’s lives, they become a big part of the dating scheme. People have become so dependent on technology that they don’t know how to communicate with prospective dates other than through the cold touch of a keyboard. They’re (behind a keyboard), so they can hide who and what they really are until you pop that hood live and in person.

But what is appropriate to ask and answer on a first date when making a first impression? And is it ever OK to reveal on a date that you masturbate?

Tune in at 6:30 p.m. EST tonight on “Conversations Of A Sistah” with our host with the most, Ms. Tracy L. Bell as she sit down in our studios with Millennial Dating Coach Ms. Marquita Johnson (pictured left), a licensed professional counselor, nationally certified counselor, board certified tele-mental counselor, and certified professional counseling supervisor. Her specialties include women issues, dating, divorce and of course relationships.

This is one “Conversation” you don’t want to miss.

All “Conversation links” in this post is online access to the shows podcast.

Hope to see you on the air!!!

In the meantime, sound off here.

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“He’s a conman and racist” Michael Cohen called his former boss, President Donald Trump.

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In sworn testimony before Congress yesterday, Michael Cohen former attorney dubbed “Donald Trump’s fixer” called his former boss, President Trump, a conman and racist.

To back up his claims that the President is a racist, Cohen recalled a statement Trump made about Black Chicago residents.

“While we were once driving through a struggling neighborhood in Chicago, he commented that only Black people could live that way,” Cohen said in a prepared statement before the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

“And he told me that Black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid,” Cohen added. “And yet I continued to work for him.”

Cohen recalled other incidents in his prepared statement.

“Mr. Trump is a racist,” he said. “The country has seen Mr. Trump court white supremacists and bigots. You have heard him call poorer countries ‘shitholes.’ In private, he is even worse.

“He once asked me if I could name a country run by a Black person that wasn’t a ‘shithole,'” Cohen said. “This was when Barack Obama was president of the United States.”

House Republicans attacked Cohen who was convicted last year of lying to Congress about a deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Cohen testified on Wednesday that he lied to protect Mr. Trump.

Wednesday was day 2 of three consecutive days of congressional appearances for Cohen. The disbarred former lawyer will appear before the House Intelligence Committee where he will speak in private on Thursday.

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Legendary Artist ‘Dionne Warwick’ Tonight on “Conversations Of A Sistah”

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Five (5) time Grammy award winning music legend and recent recipient of Grammy’s highest honors – the Lifetime Achievement award, Ms. Dionne Warwick.

She is ranked among the 41 biggest hit makers of the entire rock era, based on Billboard’s Hot 100 Pop Singles Charts. Recent recipient of the Grammy’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In celebration of Black History Month we honor Ms. Warwick on her lifetime achievements.

Join host Tracy L. Bell at 6:30 p.m. EST tonight on “Conversations Of A Sistah” as she’ll sit down in our studios with the legendary artist Dionne Warwick to discuss her new CD and greatest accomplishments.

We hope to meet you on the air!!

Please note: Ms. Warwick’s publicist has stressed, that all questions in this interview remain strictly to her new CD and lifetime achievement. 

Follow this link to access the online podcast.