When winfree was hired for a m chicago, the station manager was delighted that he had managed to find someone who wasn't an qte angela davis type. There is like an act ive reward for not alining herself with almost kind of any kind of racialized politics. So i think thereis an element of, like, she knows she's black, she accepts that, and she's just black enough to be palatable for white people who are running these institutions. I hated, hated, hated college. For four years, it was all but college, and it was in to be angry.
Do you have weird feelings about Oprah? So do we, and so does our guest! Kimberly Springer, co-editor of "Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture," joins us to talk about the rise of Oprah Winfrey and her infamous "wagon of fat" weight loss episode.
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