TV personality and talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey clapped back at racist robo-calls using her name against Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams, who is running for governor in Georgia. According to The Washington Post, she was not impressed.
“I heard people making racist robo-calls in my name against Stacey Abrams, who I am 100 percent for in Georgia,” Winfrey said in an Instagram video, in which she is seen leaning on a treadmill while wearing a multicolored “vote” T-shirt. “I just want to say: Jesus don’t like ugly. And we know what to do about that. Vote.”
The robo-calls, which Georgians began hearing last week according to reports, brought the 11th-hour infusion of old-fashioned racism to the gubernatorial election in Georgia.
“This is the magical negro Oprah Winfrey asking you to make my fellow negress Stacey Abrams the governor of Georgia,” the robo-call begins, before unrolling into nearly 60 seconds of racism and anti-Semitism.
Both sides have repudiated the racist message, which was made by TheRoadToPower.com, an anti-Semitic video podcasting website that the Anti-Defamation League says “has zeroed in on divisive political campaigns across the country,” including two of the three races that feature a black candidate for governor.
It’s not certain how many “Oprah” robo-calls have been recorded so far in Georgia.
“And so I promise that every single person who votes for Stacey Abrams, you’re going to get a new car! So you get a car! And you get a car! And you get a car! And you get a car! Everybody gets a car!”
Responding on Instagram, where she has 15 million followers, Winfrey wrote: “The antidote to Hate… VOTE your love.”
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