Billionaire US talk show host Oprah Winfrey said she was a victim of
racism during a recent visit to Switzerland. Oprah visited Zurich last
month to attend Tina Turner's wedding and while there she visited an up
market handbag shop but a shop assistant
refused to serve her, saying the bags on display were "too expensive"
for her. The bag on display was a
$35,000 bag. Too
expensive for one of the richest women in the world? Well, The Oprah
Winfrey Show is not shown in Switzerland so they don't know her
there...but even at that no black person can afford a $35, 000 bag?
Oprah said she left the shop calmly without arguing, but that the
experience was proof that racism continues to be a problem. "There's two
different ways to handle it. I could've had the whole blow-up thing...
but it still exists, of course it does."she said
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