Oprah deletes ‘white supremacist’ book
p2pnet news | TV:- TV chat hostess Oprah Winfrey isn’t having an easy time of it this week.
Sexual abuse charges have been levelled at staff running her Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy in South Africa, and now she’s had to yank a children’s book from her web site because, “Many consider the book a literary hoax of a white supremacist,” says Associated Press, continuing:
“The ‘Education of Little Tree’ was first published in 1976. It was supposedly the real-life story of an orphaned boy raised by his Cherokee grandparents.
“But suspicions were raised about Carter who was later identified as a member of the Ku Klux Klan.”
AP says Winfrey had, “long been aware of the book’s background” and acknowledged she, “once was a fan”.
‘Thinly veiled pro-white supremacist’
The book is a, “memoir-style fictional novel written under the pseudonym Forrest Carter by Asa Earl Carter, the speechwriter for segregationist Governor George Wallace of Alabama,” says the Wikipedia, going on:
Since its first publication by Delacorte Press in 1976, the book has been the subject of controversy and acclaim. It has spawned films, a sequel attempt and scores of graduate theses. In 1985, the University of New Mexico Press bought the book’s rights. It has since sold millions of copies, a rare level of success for a book distributed by an academic press, and won the 1991 American Booksellers Association Book of the Year (ABBY) award.
Speaking of theses, “Today, we can say a great deal more about Carter or his book, The Education of Little Tree, than we could in the past,” posted Amy Kallio Bollman, an SREB doctoral scholar at the University of Oklahoma in 2001, adding:
“While the aesthetic value of the book is arguable, it contains messages which are thinly veiled pro-white supremacist and which are, perhaps unintentionally, anti-Native American.”
Also See:
levelled at staff – Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy scandal, November 6, 2007
Associated Press – Oprah Winfrey pulls disputed children’s book from her Web site, November 6, 2007
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November 7th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Boo Boo Bah.
November 8th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Read the book then decide if it represents a white supremest viewpoint. I had to read it during high school and thought it was a well written and touching story.