Comments on: Three suicide attempts among 152 students in one year at Oprah’s school

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By: aj

aj — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:57:27 +0000

Oprah is just full of money and thinks she can do whatever because people look up to her.

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By: rhonda

rhonda — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:49:14 +0000

the african women i was referring to having aids that have been molested are not the girls in oprahs school. that was a statistic. there is an african doctor that does research on the effects of women being controlled by men in the bedroom even if the women are in control in the relationship otherwise. i saw a documentary on it on aids day. yesterday actually.

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By: rhonda

rhonda — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:43:08 +0000

effect not affect. and also, giving the girls your cell phone number is not going to help them if someone decides to fondle them. did you know that african women and african american women have the highest percentage of aids out of anyone.girls that have been prostituted out by their mothers, f#*ked by their own fathers brothers uncles will tell a man to wear a condom? haha. women want LOVE. thats what women want. plain and simple. youve stripped these young african girls of their familial love. all thats left for them is that when they get out of your school,they will be seeking love from MEN.and will not tell the man “no,i wont have sex unless you wear a condom”. hahaha. u think that they will? you are sadly mistaken. Ive had problems saying no or telling a man to wear a condom after ive thought that he LOVED me. or rather he convinced me that he LOVED me. and these girls will be like walking targets! then when they get knocked then they will have a kid to raise,and have to probably quit school, or their career, or do both. and be isolated from their families while they have a new baby by themselves. and then they will be just like every other american single woman struggling to make ends meet. but they will have the extra added aloneness because their families are back in africa in a hut being TOGETHER at least. she will have to leave her job, go to africa and live in a hut with her new baby in order to feel love and support again. oprah, you are not GOD.

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By: rhonda

rhonda — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:29:24 +0000

um oprah. do you not think that maybe these young girls have been caregivers to their siblings their whole lives and that them being fed,clothed,sheltered educated so well now makes them feel guilty that their siblings are not going to get the same advantage. and that youve placed the burden of them now being their families sole source of support in the future. you are making them even MORE burdened in the role of caretaker when they have graduated college and then have to support their entire family plus probably extra siblings that they havent even bonded with that their moms probably bore while they were away at school. youve alienated them from their source of LOVE. imaginge when they come back to see their families. they will be thought of as “better than” by their siblings. their siblings will want hand outs,hand ups, and if the girls cant give as much as can go around,the girls will feel like a failure. the girls parents will have to be taken care of also by the girls. oprah, you have no vision! you cant just hand pick a few girls without thinking of the affect you will have on their long term lives.

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By: jess

jess — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 04:23:18 +0000

First – although it pains me to defend Oprah, this type of isolation is very much the norm for private boarding schools. It is very likely that Oprah based her school on the American model.
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Exactly. I had two friends who were in boarding schools for a bit. Yeah, this sounds exactly like their experience in east coast schools (they had a great time, btw). This blog entry was bizarre.

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By: Sasha

Sasha — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 03:03:33 +0000

So when is Queen Oreo going to build a school in the country that’s made her a billionaire?

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By: gumboyaya

gumboyaya — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:47:31 +0000

First – although it pains me to defend Oprah, this type of isolation is very much the norm for private boarding schools. It is very likely that Oprah based her school on the American model.

Second- the attempted suicide rates among first year students at private boarding schools (as well as colleges and universities around the US when the students are older and should be more able to handle the situation) tends to be fairly significant no matter where the school is located or who the founders are- we simply don’t hear as much about them. Maybe because Oprah isn’t involved.

Third- I think too much is being made of this school being a bad thing and not the positive thing that it is. I remember a few years back when people were complaining that Oprah had enough money to help a third world country but instead was giving away cars to her audience.

Now, people are complaining that Oprah is trying to help children of third world countries and not doing enough in America. Which considering all of the philanthropic efforts that Oprah has put into America is really unjustified.

I don’t particularly like Oprah. I never got how so many people loved her, but it seems really unfair to attack her for trying to do something good. Maybe she shouldn’t have counted so much on the American way of doing things when she started this program but at least its an effort. How much effort are the complainers making to help the children in ANY country on ANY continent?

New Orleans is still suffering from the turmoil of Katrina, children all over the world are still being abused and going without basic necessities and instead of saying “OK, I’m going to do this one small thing that I can do to help” People are up in arms because this was a cause that Oprah found.

I’m going to step off my soap box, but I have to say SERIOUSLY don’t get so lost in what others are doing that you forget you have ways of helping too. You want to show Oprah how its done? Support a book drive to restock the libraries of areas that have been devastated natural disaster. Go out and donate some time to help some American kids learn how to read.
Volunteer for a charity ANY charity and then maybe you won’t care so much about what Oprah does with her money. Or maybe you will but at least you will have a leg to stand on rather than your own self righteous indignation that a rich woman did something you disagree with.

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By: mollination

mollination — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:11:57 +0000

Exactly, CB! Oprah is always on talking about how American kids are so different than African kids and that American ones don’t appreciate all they have. Well, maybe she should listen to her own preaching. African culture places a much higher emphasis on family and community. These girls are probably so homesick they can hardly take it.

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