Winfrey talked about race-based disrespect of Presidend Obama to the BBC: ‘There's no question about that. And it's the kind of thing no one ever says, but everybody's thinking it.'

 

Oprah Winfrey has never been one to hold her tongue.

 

That remained true when she sat down with BBC's Will Gompertz and detailed³ how no one is above the racism that still exists in this world today … not even the President of the United States, Barack Obama.

 

"There's a level of disrespect for the office that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he's African American," she said. "There's no question about that. And it's the kind of thing no one ever says, but everybody's thinking it."

 

U.S. President Obama clasps hands with Oprah Winfrey during the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I have a dream' speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington August 28, 2013.

 

Winfrey, 59, used the example of Republican congressman⁴ Joe Wilson shouting out "you're a liar⁵" during a 2009 speech President Obama gave.

 

"Remember that?" she asked Gompertz.

 

Oprah Winfrey was talking with the BBC to promote the film, 'The Butler,' when the conversation turned to history and politics.

 

The media mogul（显要人物） was promoting her movie "The Butler," which debuts⁶ in theaters in the U.K. and Ireland on Nov. 15, and naturally the conversation turned to historical references of slavery and bigotry⁷ from the past and now.

 

"It would be foolish to not recognize that we have evolved and that we're not still facing the same kind of terrorism against black people en masse as was displayed with the Scottsboro boys," she said drawing reference to the film "12 Years a Slave." "It's gotten better."

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