your daily shame

There was a piece in the paper roughly two weeks ago that stated Oprah Winfrey “allowed” the CEO of Hermes to apologize on air for her treatment in Paris a couple of months back. She said, “Everybody who’s ever been snubbed because you were not chic enough or the right class or the right color or whatever…you know that that is very humiliating, and that is exactly what happened to me.” (Quote from Dallas Morning News, provided by AP wire service)

What she fails to mention - again - is that she arrived at the famous boutique 15 minutes after closing time, when any other person, despite their race, class or level of chicary, would have been denied entry. Oprah Winfrey chose to placate her own embarrassment by using her celebrity status to create a sort of mini-cause that she could rally her audience around in the name of treating people right. And that’s wrong.