[align=center]LETTER TO AFRICA: THE CON-ARTISTING OF OPRAH WINFREY
By Chika Onyeani

Chika Onyeani is the author of the explosive bestseller, "Capitalist
******: The Road to Success," and whose forthcoming book, "The
Broederbond Conspiracy," will soon be published. Onyeani is the
publisher and editor-in-chief of the largest and only weekly African
newspaper in America, the award-winning "African Sun Times."

Oprah Winfrey, the most powerful voice on television throughout the
whole world, has inadvertently allowed herself to be conned twice by a
relatively unknown, and as it has now turned out, author who
completely fabricated it seems every page of what he had written in a
so-called memoir of his. The first time was on October 26, 2005,
when in one of her shows, Oprah trotted out the author, a man known as
James Frey, and sat him beside herself as she does with her guests.
What had drawn Oprah to James Frey was a book he had written, a book
which he said chronicled his life of being an alcoholic, drug addict,
as well as a criminal. Yes, brothers and sisters, recounting this
kind of life really made a deep impression on this money-magnet of a
powerful woman.



In that October 26 show, which had been advertised as "The Man Who
Kept Oprah Awake at Night," Oprah described the book, "A Million
Little Pieces," as "like nothing you've ever read before. Everybody
at Harpo (Harpo is Ms. Winfrey's more than a billion dollar company)
is reading it. When we were staying up late at night reading it, we'd
come in the next morning saying, "What page are you on?". In the
intervening period, she showed a segment whereby employees of Harpo
Productions said the book was revelatory, with some of them choking
back tears. Later on, Oprah herself was shown wiping tears from her
eye, and then said, "I'm crying 'cause these are all my Harpo family
so, and we all loved the book so much."

Well, let me tell you what happened with Oprah's endorsement of the
book - the sales sky-rocketed by more than 3 million copies (hard
copies) at $22.95 a copy in just three months. That's the kind of
power that Oprah possesses when she endorses a book. Just do the
math!!

With that kind of endorsement and astronomical sales figures, and
coupled with envy or just the pure need to verify facts, investigative
journalists started asking questions. One of the best known
investigative web-sites is called "The Smoking Gun,"
http://www.thesmokinggun.com, and members of the site are pretty good
at unearthing facts about issues. The journalists at The Smoking Gun
(TSG) went through page by page of James Frey's book, and found out
that most of what he had written were all lies. They went to work and
began interviewing the individuals, or events that the author, James
Frey, had written about in the book. The first story they debunked
was Frey's account of how, under a large dose of one of the most
hallucinatory and deadly drugs in America called "crack", he drove his
car into a policeman in a small town in Ohio, one of the states in
America. Well, you can't run down a policeman in America, and so a
wild melee ensued. That is of course the story that James Frey told
in his book, which turned out to be mostly lies.

When the article about this man who had appeared on the Oprah Winfrey
Show - of course, you instantly become a celebrity when you appear on
her show - was made public, Frey issued a statement, denying that he
had fabricated most of what he wrote in his book, and in fact,
threatening legal action against the chaps at The Smoking Gun.



In another much publicized show, called the "Larry King Live," on the
CNN network, (by any means a lot smaller than Oprah's show), by the
way Oprah is on the ABC which you might not have heard but surely you
have heard of the CNN, Mr. Frey drafted his mother on to Larry King's
show to buttress his lies.

But in a show of shame, which she termed support, Oprah, out of
character, maybe this youngman hatched some voodoo/juju on her, called
the show to say, despite the fact the book was a total fabrication,
she said she still supported the essence of the book. "We support the
book because we recognize that there have been thousands and hundreds
of thousands of people whose lives have been changed by this book,"
Oprah said. "The underlying message of redemption in James Frey's
memoir still resonates with me. And I know that it resonates with
millions of other people who have read this book and will continue to
read this book." The backlash against her was instantaneous - she
was roundly criticized for supporting lies.

That was how James Frey conned Oprah Winfrey the first time and he is
now a multimillionaire. In fact, he even has a second book, which I
won't mention here that's again on the New York Times bestseller list.
I really don't give a damn about the New York Times bestseller list,
okay. They know my book, Capitalist ******, belongs there but have
refused to put it up there, so I say let them go f--k themselves.

So, Oprah had to do something quickly to redeem her high reputation
and credibility, and of course her bottom line, which is the profit
margin of her company - Harpo Productions (by the way, if you don't
know, Harpo is Oprah spelt backwards). First, she issued a statement
saying that she was sorry for having called the Larry King Show to
express support for James Frey, and regretted being 'duped.'

But everything she said was music to Mr. James Frey, who was already
plotting another way to con Oprah again. Oprah issued a command to
Mr. Frey, and the person directly involved in handling him at the
Random House publishing company, Dan Talese, to appear on her show, so
that she could quiz him about whether he told lies in his book. This
reminds me of the story of the young girl in a village who had
returned from school, and as soon as she got home, started crying on
top of her voice. Her mother tried to find out what was wrong with
her and why she was crying, but the girl bellowed more cries.
Eventually, the mother threatened to beat the shit out of her if she
didn't tell why she was crying. The girl, relented and said, "a boy
did something to me," and she pointed where. The mother demanded who
and where the boy was. "Okay, let's go," the mother said. When
mother and daughter reached where a group of young men were, she said
to the daughter point out the boy. The girl pointed to the boy. The
mother marched over to the boy, and threatened him and commanded him
to lie down. The boy of course quickly complied. She summoned her
daughter and said get on top and do it back to him. That's how I feel
about Oprah's command to James Frey. It was music to the boys ears,
so was Oprah's command to James Frey. It was music to his ears.

So, James Frey appeared again on Oprah's show. Oprah's appearance was
stern, angry, and no-nonsense. She berated James Frey with questions,
and he answered, mumbled actually, with yes to all her questions.
"Yes, I lied about that, yes, that was a lie, yes I made that up."
Americans would say, "bullshit."

You know what Oprah has really done, boost James Frey a second time,
and boosted his book sales even more. You know why, because everybody
now wants to find out what the fuss is all about.

Do you know why I am particularly pissed about the whole episode -
guess. Well, I am pissed because about a month and half ago, Oprah
had a show in which she talked about the word "******" and said the
word was inordinately offensive to her and she didn't want anybody
around her to use it. But thanks to Don Cheadle of the "Hotel Rwanda"
fame, who challenged her about the relevance of the word as it applies
to black people, the other black guests were like poodles, who though
had disagreed with her, suddenly changed their minds and said the word
was offensive to them as well. In fact, the young hip hop artist,
said he was thinking about not even using, "nigga" that young blacks
use as calls of endearment to themselves. Can you just imagine, if
Oprah is bothered by the word, "******", then the whole Black Race is
in big trouble.

But more especially, I am pissed because of the title of my book,
"Capitalist ******: The Road to Success," a book that hundreds of
thousands of people said is liberating their minds; Oprah has refused
to invite me to talk about my book. But our people are discarding
Oprah's fame of endorsement and are making "Capitalist ******," the
bestseller it has been.

What a disgrace that she has allowed this rotten egg to be rubbed on
her face by allowing herself to be conned twice by this
con-artist-excellence!!

So, I urge you to go out there and purchase your own copy of
"Capitalist ******," which millions of Black people are talking about
and have acclaimed as liberating their minds from the syndrome of
victim mentality. Let's show Oprah that we can create our own five
million book sales without her endorsement.
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why would i buy such a book

bemused

....Oprah works directly for the man just like all the other rich black elite that are posted on TV, in entertainment, politics,etc.

according to the author, "Blacks are economic slaves because they lack the "killer-instinct" and "devil-may-care" attitude of the Caucausian, as well as the "spider web economic mentality" of the Asian."

Lack of knowledge is the proponent, not being exactly like other people of mankind, but wanting to be like them has solidified our position of spiritual darkness and bankruptcy; the true leaders trying to follow the real followers.

Says Onyeani, "We need to recognize and learn from others what it takes to succeed. We need to adopt the "devil-may-care" attitude and the "killer-instinct and whatever-it-takes attitude" of the white Caucasian, and the "spider web economic mentality" of the Asian."

Some black people have already become like that, where has it taken them? Monetary riches, but spiritual damnation...ostracizement from their true nature and estrangement from their people, that is not what success really is...success is not purely monetary. Success truely is"the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors." or "favorable or desired outcome", so if my desire was to learn the truth, or to learn an ancient language, or to help other people and following through from the conception of that idea to it's exact specifications, that is the real success. Becoming a capitalist negro essentially makes "that green paper" your god, but everyone knows it is the root of a lot of evil.

Melaninated people are Divinely capable of much more, much more good than subccumbing to the ways of the wicked just to live a fat money-clad extravagant, but emptyway of this currentlife. I know that it is up to each to choose his/her own path though, but he/she should be aware to knowof exactly where that path will lead with no consciously-percieved "surprises" at the end.