Their fallout was exacerbated when Oprah essentially snubbed John Johnson by not showing up to his funeral or releasing a statement on the man that pretty much paved her way in Chicago.
I remember this because this was the first time I had started to lose some respect for Oprah.
Everybody noticed the snub and Roland Martin, who was over the Chicago Defender at the time, wasn’t scared to call Oprah out on it, which is why, contrary to the Coli and TNs narrative of him, I’ve always fucced with Roland.
Here’s a couple of articles -
NPR Choice page
Oprah's silence on John H. Johnson confounds many
Roland essentially says that he reached out to Winfrey over a period of two weeks to get a comment from her and essentially her team hit him with the
Cause Oprah refused to speak on John Johnson.
So Roland published an article in the Defender calling her out saying that all the black media titans and even President Clinton was at Johnson’s funeral and she purposely snubbed it and immediately Oprah broke her silence and hit the


and was like she was in Hawaii but sent flowers and a note, but come to find out, the Johnsons never received them, and that she was going to do a Johnson tribute on her show when she got back to Chicago.
She never did the tribute.
The most interesting thing about all of this though?
Who is one of Linda Johnson Rice’s best girlfriends?
Valerie Jarrett.
Do you remember when Oprah was campaigning hard for Obama?
Who was Obama’s closest advisor?
Valerie Jarrett.
Do you remember that at some point when they were on the campaign trail, the Obama’s started to distance themselves from Oprah even though she uncharacteristicly pulled her weight to help him secure the nomination?
If not, let me refresh your memory.
https://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/a...betrayal&year=2012&month=06&date=05&id=441238
”Ed Klein’s blockbuster new best-seller about President Barack Obama chronicles Obama’s shocking betrayal of Oprah Winfrey, disclosing how Oprah helped him win the presidency and then was “frozen out” of the White House after the election.
After Obama won the White House, Oprah was “largely frozen out of the White House” by senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and Obama’s wife
Jarrett advised Michelle to “distance herself” from Oprah and cut her out of the White House inner circle, suggesting Oprah “didn’t know her place” or “was a bad influence.”



The night crawler strikes.
Paybacks a bish for snubbing her best girlfriend’s father.
Oprah mentions to Roland that she never got to meet John Johnson but respected him. How tf ya’ll never meet and pretty much lived right next door to each other for YEARS on the same block in the Gold Coast?
This plus this recent stuff Oprah pulled with MJ, I don’t fucc with her at all. I don’t deny her accomplishments, but she is as coarse as they come.