Oprah Winfrey, due to what her rep calls an “archival error,” has been unwittingly recommending the book The Education of Little Tree on her Web site.
The book, about an orphan raised by Cherokee parents, was acclaimed when it first came out in the 1970s, but it was revealed shortly after that the author was a white supremacist and KKK member named Asa Earl Carter, whose claim to fame up until that point was writing an infamous speech for George Wallace that went something like, “Segregation today! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!” Nice.
Oprah said she loved the book until she found out about the author. Too bad Carter’s dead and she can’t bring him on the show and ream him, James Frey-style.
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Oprah closing the year out with a bang.
Her people need to be doing more research. This shit is embarrassing though not so embarrassing as an abuse survivor hiring an abuser for her school. She’s human.
Her research team has clearly been hating on her for some time now.
I wonder if the punishment for her research team will be to send them to her school in Africa?
Ok. That was low.
@bmp:
She’s still got a few weeks left to make another big boo-boo…
I adore and respect Orpah but her judgement is shitty.
Um, who here honestly believes that Oprah is the one picking this stuff? She has a HUGE staff and while ultimately she has to take the public fall for their screw ups, she’s not the one browsing the library for good books. I’ll give her this: when confronted with crises (and they will happen), she handles them well.
You have to believe she has some say in what gets picked though. She is a total control freak. This is the woman who famously claimes to still write checks for her own light bills.
I’m sure she has control. She just goes on the information she’s given. And hell. If I’m paying people good money to find out info for me, that info should be complete and thorough.
That’s some extra random sh*t. I’m definitely familiar with that “segregation forever” speech, but I never knew who wrote it and even if I did, it would not cross my mind to think that he wrote a children’s book. Not to mention that fact that he didn’t use his real name for the book.
But then again, her staff could have at least googled his name. I just did and all of that stuff came up in his Wiki entry.
Do white supremacists generally write about adopting Native Americans?
o.k. maybe now people will stop taking oprahs words as LAW and start thinking for themselves!
Carter also wrote the Josey Wales books. Clint Eastwood directed the movie version.