Posts tagged “transcending race”

  1. The Long Climb to Nowhere: On Oprah and the Impossibility of “Transcending Race”

    By Jessie-Lane Metz

    in Race

    I love Oprah Winfrey.

    When The Oprah Winfrey Show was on the air I didn’t watch it much, because that woman has a gift for finding my heartstrings and pulling them until I’m feeling whatever emotion she wants me to feel. Full disclosure: I cried like a baby when she interviewed John Travolta about his then-upcoming movie Ladder 49. And, I mean: really, Jessie? That shit is not sad. It got 40% on Rotten…

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