It looks like Oprah is doing some back sliding on snubbing the funeral of Ebony and Jet magazines founder John H. Johnson. Hmm it seems the guy died on Aug 8 and Oprah was here in Hawaii at the time. His funeral was on Aug 15 though. Plenty of time to hop a flight back to Chicago and attend the funeral and then jet back here. I mean she is a billionaire after all.
Now she is trying to make amends for this snub:
She said she sent notes to both Johnson's widow, Eunice, and his daughter, Linda Johnson Rice — even offering to provide Martin copies of the notes and a receipt of the flowers she sent to Johnson's downtown publishing company, according to the newspaper.
Yup, she is willing to show proof that she had dictated some note and bought some flowers for a supposed pioneer in black enterprise. I mean anyone could have had their assistant do that kind of thing. I guess John H. Johnson doesn't rate.
She also told Martin she plans to pay tribute to Johnson when she returns from her summer hiatus with a TV show dedicated to the man who built a media empire and became one of the nation's wealthiest black businessmen.
I have a feeling that the idea for this show happened after Chicago Defender Executive Editor Roland Martin called her on the snub. She will admit up and down that she thought of the idea Aug. 8th and not after that copy of Chicago Defender came out. In case her Hawaiian vacation is more important then John H. Johnson ever was.
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