Oprah

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I can relate to how Oprah feels about the inner city schools here in America. For many years, my family "sponsored" this other family in my hometown. The family consisted of a grandmother who was taking care of 5 grandchildren because the childrens' parents had run off. We bought them Thanksgiving Dinner every year, mowed their lawn, did their flowerbeds in their yard, bought them Christmas Dinner and Christmas presents for all 5 kids, ect. ect. Well, eventually it got to the point where the 5 children would no longer help us mow their lawn or help us with the flower beds and they seemed, to be quite frank, very unappreciative for everything we were doing for them. One Christmas, we walked into their house with a load of food and Christmas presents to find the children talking on brand new cell phones and watching their new Video Ipods (a luxury I can't even afford). They didn't get up to help us get things out of the car. They didn't thank us for bringing them food and presents, and it seemed that they could care less. That was the last time we did anything for that family.

I am sure Oprah feels the very same way as my family did that Christmas. Why do something for someone who doesn't appreciate it?

Oprah has SOOOOO much money...billions and billions of dollars. I really respect that she is actually doing something constructive with her money instead of sitting on it and flaunting it like MOST celebrities do. The world is a better place because of Oprah. As long as she is doing SOMETHING, I honestly could care less whether it is in Africa, the US, or Antarctica.

[rivermom]

I appreciate Oprah and all she's done. She has given plenty and truly shows a compassion for so many. She has changed the lives of so many, it's truly incredible and I have respect for her for all she does.