{"id":8277,"date":"2013-08-01T09:37:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T09:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8277"},"modified":"2013-08-01T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T11:27:09","slug":"oprah-latest-race-baiting-venture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=8277","title":{"rendered":"Oprah’s latest race baiting venture"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this weekend\u2019s issue, Parade<\/em> features a very personal conversation with Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, and director Lee Daniels (Precious) about their new movie and the questions it raises about race in America.<\/p>\n

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The “powerful chronicle” of one black man\u2019s years of service in the White House during the most tumultuous period in the nation\u2019s civil rights history, Lee Daniels\u2019 The Butler (in theaters Aug. 16) was a “labor of love” for the trio.<\/p>\n

Whitaker, 52, plays Cecil Gaines, whose experiences attending presidents from Eisenhower through Reagan are loosely based on those of Eugene Allen, a White House butler who died in 2010.<\/p>\n

Winfrey, 59, in her first dramatic role since 1998\u2019s Beloved, plays Gaines\u2019s wife, Gloria, who battles a drinking problem and watches her husband clash with their activist son.<\/p>\n

The film revisits major events\u2014the Freedom Rides, the lunch counter sit-ins, the Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations\u2014through their impact on the Gaines family.<\/p>\n

On using the N-word,\u00a0Lee Daniels calls it a word he used quite a bit, until Oprah sat him down and talked to him about its power.<\/p>\n

Winfrey says she feels strongly about it. “I always think of the millions of people who heard that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree.”\u00a0– Parade<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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