Hip-hop has scores of individuals with arrest records; not too many engineers and doctors coming from this crew. Shootings, stabbings, drug-dealing, death, are routine along with horrendous social messages. Fast money, quick sex, low-class treatment of fellow citizens are the messages over and over again. Who can blame Oprah for staying away? As usual, the assault on Winfrey has a great deal to do with her race. Hip-hop is basically black, urban poor. Oprah was a woman from the South with no history in such culture. She had her own traumas growing up but rose to a level as a television reporter before becoming the "Queen." Hip-hoppers expect her to be "black" and have them on. Oprah has far more respect than that because she knows such a showcase will promote brutal stereotypes of blacks being ill-mannered and violent which hip-hop is. Only successful black people seem to go through this. Having such people on her show is the equivalent of actor/talk-show host Tony Danza( Italian-American) having on mobsters. He simply would never do it because he does not want to promote the negative stereotypes of Italians. Thus, why should Oprah promote a negative stereotype of African-Americans? She should not.

50 Cent says Oprah caters to older white women. It seems more that Oprah caters to Americans of all types. And whose social messages are far better for a nation, Mr. No Cents or Winfrey? Not even close.

Perhaps the hip-hoppers are resentful for the obvious: They made it through promotion of violence, resentment, hatred, envy and pride. Oprah made it through hard work and decency. Maybe the inferiority complex is showing?