Oprah: If You Hate Obama You Are Racist, If Youre Racist You Must Die Once again, Oprah Winfrey is at the center of hypocrisy and controversy. During a BBC interview, she was recorded making a series of extraordinarily racially-charged statements, which have since received criticism. When asked by BBCs Will Gompertz whether Winfrey believed racism was a contemporary issue, she responded, Its gotten better. Are there still places where people are terrorized because of the color of their skin, because of the color of their black skin? Yes. But there are laws that have allowed us to progress beyong what we saw in the Scottsboro [case] and beyond even the prejudice we see in The Butler. To follow up on the matter, Gompertz asked Oprah whether she believed the problem of racism had been solved. Of course, the problem is not solved, Oprah responded matter-of-factly, As long as there are people who still, theres a whole generationI say this, you know, I said this, you know, for apartheid South African, I said this for my own, you know, community in the Souththere are generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die. What do you think of Oprahs extraordinarily harsh comments? 