Last night Oprah made a moving and powerful acceptance
speech as she was receiving her Cecile B, DeMille award at the 75th
annual Golden Globes Awards. Oprah has
never failed us for she is a great orator and quite intelligent. She did not become a billionaire by being
mediocre. Oprah has always been a force
for just her mention or endorsement can move any of people mostly women to
support simply on her word. Several
years ago there was a phrase, the Oprah effect that was coined to address this phenomenon. With just one mention from Oprah could take a
company from mere obscurity to global recognition. Oprah
can impact and make more changes to improve the world as a private citizen than
as a president.
After her soul stirring speech last night, many people have
been hinting that she should run for president of the United States in
2020. While she is stating that is not
her desire John/Jane Q. Public is not having it. They want her to run. This unyielding desire to have her on the
2020 ballot has a lot to do with this countries disheartening feeling about the
man that currently sits in the White House today. We have been inundated with daily craziness
and the people of this country want to change that by soliciting someone very
familiar, loved, intelligent and caring…Oprah.
While I simply love her and hang on to most words that come from her
lips I do not feel that president of the United States should be in her future. This country needs to have someone that know
politics and the political structure and process. A political background is needed to understand
the process to be completely successful.
While many of you will say that she can surround herself with
intelligent people. However, lack of
experience for herself would be deterrent to effectiveness.
One thing that has not been mentioned is the issue of
support from the Black community. Now
let’s be honest, some in the Black community will not support her because they
do not like that fact that her base support is from Caucasian women. I can hear it now….”I wouldn’t vote for Oprah
because she thinks she is white”. As a
race of people we want to call you ours and that is not possible if you’re
always with elbowing with white folks. We always want to hold people to a litmus test
to determine just how black you really are.
Yes this is some of the most asinine
shit I have ever heard but some of us do it.
Let’s not forget how much we
celebrated Barack Obama on November 4, 2008, however, that celebration did not
last long for we wanted him to want into the oval office and fix the ills of
the black communities across this nation.
Once we determined that we had to share him with the rest of the country
we were a little pissed and he was not doing things to “fix us”. Mind you these were issues that had been in
these communities for many years. His biggest
critics were from those within the Black community. While Oprah is loved today the winds of
celebration will turn quickly.
It is time for this country to get back to
basics. Get a candidate that has been
shaped and molded by the experience of being a politician. I do not mean any disrespect to Oprah but
choosing her to be our 2020 candidate would be taking the easy way out. Raise up a candidate that we all can believe
in and get behind and our voices and actions can be strong enough to pull him/her over
the finish line. I have faith in us but
we have to stop trying to do it the easy way.
As my father once told me “nothing worth having is easy”.
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