Oprah, Entitled America, and the Coming Reclamation of Our Nation

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American Thinker:

It was the '80s at WJZ-TV, an ABC affiliate television station in Baltimore, MD. I was a rare black graphic designer in the art department. Oprah Winfrey was the co-host of the station's local morning talk show, People Are Talking.

People Are Talking associate producer Debbie DiMaio sent her "reel" to Chicago in response to a job opening. The folks in Chicago saw Oprah on Debbie's reel, liked her, and the rest is television history.

Little did I know that my coworker would eventually "Oprah-ize" America, making everything about feelings and self-esteem. Please do not get me wrong -- I am not saying that Oprah is solely responsible for feminizing our culture and banning score-keeping at school sporting events for fear of injuring the losing team's self-esteem. But Oprah is unquestionably a superstar on the liberal socialist-progressive team committed to furthering their "brain dead" all-about-feelings agenda.

My brother has been coaching little league football for over 25 years. He has noticed a disturbing shift in the attitudes of more and more kids. They think they are entitled, demanding maximum rewards for minimal effort.

Contributing greatly to America's new "gimme" mindset is President Obama, preaching his gospel of "spreading the wealth around," confirming blacks as victims of racial inequality, promoting entitlements, and demonizing achievers.

And when did a belief and faith in God become a bad thing in America? God is so banned from the public square that any politician boldly proclaiming his or her faith is branded a religious zealot nutcase by the liberal media. Meanwhile, the liberal media considers anything less than a celebration of sodomy ignorant and worthy of attack for bigotry. Now, I preface my next comment by saying that I have homosexual family and friends whom I love dearly. But I will not be bullied into proclaiming their behavior normal.

Founding father John Adams said, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people." And yet, the left seeks to ban all references to God from government.

Surfing the channels, I stumbled across a TV program titled Hip Hop's Most Shocking Moments. It was unfortunate to witness so many youths influenced by a culture which celebrates ignorance, crudeness, and guys employing a duck-waddling walk to keep their pants, which are already below their butts, from falling all the way down. The liberal media celebrates this behavior as authentic "blackness." Conservative, educated, English-speaking blacks are trashed for trying to act white.