President Rush Limbaugh asks Oprah: "How Did You Happen?"

In case you hadn't heard, Beyonce' just released a new album.  Not only did she release it, she did not do any pre-promotion on the album at all creating a crazy rush to the internet when word dropped that her album had fallen from the sky.  In the past, an artist would pay the record label millions of dollars to pre-promote an album; a process which could last months before the album actually hits the street.  If the buzz does not work, the artist will have to offset their earnings with the loss incurred by the pre-promotion process.  If you are an artist that just had a new baby and did not want to endure this trial to get your music out there, you had better make it up to your kid later in life....if you can.  

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I saw this amazing picture of B, an amazing black woman, and thought about that question that Rush Limbaugh asked of Oprah.  He asked Oprah, if American is so oppressive, how did you happen.  

My knee jerk reaction was to put the ghetto smack down on such a notion, but I looked into the heart of Jesus and measured my response.  

Rush. On behalf of Oprah, here is your answer.  Oprah did what Jay-Z and the entire hip hop culture did.  She did what the Harlem Globetrotters did and what the Negro baseball league did as well.  What Oprah did is what all survivors do and what Beyonce' just did.

She changed the game!

I won't waste any time reminding you that Thurgood Marshall did some game changing along with MLK and Malcolm.  Mostly, the divine order of a divine God moved the hearts of many (of every color) to change the games we play. Yet, play them we still do. You think anyone is fighting to insure the success of OWN except game changers?  The status quo does not wish to see Oprah pull this off.   I assume when Hillary wins the white house Rush will tell her the same thing about sexual oppression not being so bad in America.

What Rush clearly doesn't get, with all of his proclaimed wisdom, is that oppression is not more damaging to the oppressed as it is to the oppressor.  Like all sin, it takes DEEP introspection to overcome.  In this wonderful post-racial America ( LOL ), I for one am much less concerned with the challenge of racial oppression because ironically it has positively contributed to the spirit of the black American, even as we work to overcome the PTSD of racism. 

How did Oprah happen?  How did black America happen?  We became because we overcame (see African slave ships); and we shall overcome.  My concern is that white guilt makes people like Rush sound like an alcoholic with well rehearsed reason's why he doesn't need to get some help. Most ism's require acceptance before recovery.