Spare Some Ash , Miss ?

[Bazile]

What's with this African History culture business .

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/11/190774850/winfrey-gives-millions-to-new-african-american-museum-in-d-c

Isn't there any ' white culture ' organisations , that she could also spare a few quid for , from her billions ?

[daffy654]

She is entitled to give her money to whoever she wishes, if she want to support black culture and history events and issues then that is her prerogative.

[Zeuhl]

Ms Winfrey is African American

so if she isn't going to support an African American History Museum who is?

/Isn't there any ' white culture ' organisations , that she could also spare a few quid for , from her billions ? /

She is already a patron of the Arts and a variety of charities

So she already does

[anotheoldgit]

/// "When I come to this site and see hundreds of people — black, white and Latino — working on this," Bunch says, "in some ways it says what the African-American experience is, which is the story of us all." ///

NO!!!!! They are there simply to earn a crust of bread, just like any other workers.

[mikey4444]

Can't see what point that you failing to make here Basile ? Why can't she give her money to whoever she wants to ? What possible business is it of yours ?

[FredPuli43]

What's your objection , baz? That African-American culture and history is a fiction? That white millionaires should give both to black and to white culture? That they shouldn't, but black ones should?

[mikey4444]

We are all a bit confused here Bazile...have another go at making your point, this time so that we can understand !

[Bazile]

Actually, this is a tongue in cheek post .

I know that there are a few on here who appear to have a problem with African / Black history , stories / issues being aired

[andy-hughes]

Bazile-

Ms Winfrey is an African-American woman - you can tell if you look at her picture or see her on TV.

"I am so proud of African-American history and its contributions to our nation as a whole," says Winfrey, chairman and CEO of the Oprah Winfrey Network. "I am deeply appreciative of those who paved the path for me and all who follow in their footsteps."

""When I come to this site and see hundreds of people — black, white and Latino — working on this," Bunch says, "in some ways it says what the African-American experience is, which is the story of us all."

Do you actually read your links before you attach them?

[Zeuhl]

aog's interpretation is rather less prosaic than that of the museum's founding director

perhaps because he wasn't there, hasn't been involved and understands relatively little of it

[boxtops]

what's Ash got to with it?

[anotheoldgit]

Bazile

/// Actually, this is a tongue in cheek post . ///

/// I know that there are a few on here who appear to have a problem with African / Black history , stories / issues being aired ///

Is this some form of get out for you Baz, which is most unusual, nobody has been getting at you have they?

[mikey4444]

Oh, right, we understand now Bazile ......................?

[Octavius]

Quite right though, I'm white. I wish she'd give me some cash.

[FredPuli43]

Bit difficult to interpret the quote, isn't it? The speaker uses 'in some ways' as a caveat or condition and then includes everybody, black , white, and latino, the whole workforce, as a body which represents what black experience has been. We'll have to put it down to poetic or rhetorical language. It doesn't bear aog's literal or prosaic construction

[Bazile]

//Is this some form of get out for you Baz, which is most unusual, nobody has been getting at you have they? //

No - no ' get out ' aog .
In fact i thought about putting one of these - :-) - after my post , given that i could not find the tongue in cheek button .

[boxtops]

It's a non-story, really - no different to Melissa Gates giving millions of dollars to underprivileged children's charities. You do what you like with your surplus money, it's no business of mine.

[Zeuhl]

/It doesn't bear aog's literal or prosaic construction /

presumably, when aog sees pictures of RAF WW2 squadrons and airmen from all over the Commonwealth and beyond

it says nothing to him

other than: 'it's just people from all over the place who got conscripted'

[Bazile]

Seriously though - there are lots of people that i admire - she is definitely one of them .

[Octavius]

Do you mean, one of them, or, one of THEM ?