Oprah’s “White People”

A reported conversation between Oprah Winfrey and BFF Gayle King on XM Satellite Radio, as transcribed and editorialized by listener “Mayme,” and posted to the comments section of Costas Panagopoulos’s Politico.com piece on white viewer flight from Winfrey’s show, after her Obama endorsement.

Reply #1
Date: Apr. 8, 2008 – 12:35 AM ESTIT’S ABOUT TIME THE DUMB “white” HOUSEWIVES WOKE UP FROM THE DAZE !!!

Transcript from Oprah’s XM Sattelite conversation with Gayle:

Gayle King: You could work for some good White folks.

Oprah (in Black slang accent, making fun of her grandmother): I hope you get some good White folks like I did ‘cuz I worked for some good Folks.

Gayle: They’re so nice to me. They give you clothes and food.

Oprah (still in Black slang accent): They give you clothes and you get food to take home. And they give you good clothes, too, not all worn out. That’s what my grandmother used to say to me. And I now say that I wish she had lived to see that I did grow up to get some good White folks-(yelling:) WORKING FOR ME!

Gayle (also yelling): WORKING FOR YOU!

Oprah (still yelling): WORKING FOR ME!

Gayle: Hehehehe! (laughs at ‘White folks’)

Oprah: All these good White folks.

Gayle: There’s (sic) White people everywhere.

Oprah: (‘White folks’) Everywhere-only one Black man in here.

Gayle: (‘White folks’) Working. Hehehe! (laughs again at White folks)

Oprah: There’s one (‘White folk’) every you look. There’s George (a ‘White folk’ employee of Oprah). More White folks, thumbing up. Yeah, George is giving the thumbs up.

Gayle: “I’m a Good White Folk.”

Oprah: Hehehehe! (Laughing at her ‘White folks.”)

Mayme then signs off, “Typical White Person that won’t watch Oprah.”

ADDED: TMZ.com has the audio.