{"id":939235,"date":"2021-10-29T20:58:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=939235"},"modified":"2021-10-29T20:58:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T00:58:37","slug":"oprah-winfrey-network-drama-queen-sugar-rants-about-modern-day-forms-of-slavery-in-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oprah-winfrey-network-drama-queen-sugar-rants-about-modern-day-forms-of-slavery-in-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Winfrey Network Drama &#039;Queen Sugar&#039; Rants About &#039;Modern Day Forms of Slavery&#039; in American"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foprah-winfrey-network-drama-queen-sugar-rants-about-modern-day-forms-of-slavery-in-american%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=939235&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/queensugarmicah1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The drama series&nbsp;<em>Queen Sugar \u2014&nbsp;<\/em>which airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network, owned by the media mogul whose&nbsp;net worth comes in at an&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/oprah-winfrey-net-worth-career-2018-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">estimated<\/a> $2.6 billion \u2014 showed&nbsp;a college student who refers to his&nbsp;social justice concerns such as \u201cvoter suppression\u201d and \u201cdiscrimination\u201d as \u201cmodern-day forms of slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The episode, titled \u201cThey Would Bloom and Welcome You,\u201d which aired on October 26 shows Micah West (Nicholas L. Ashe) argues during an apparent class project that \u201credlining, voter suppression, school defunding, employment discrimination, loan discrimination, mass incarceration\u201d are \u201cmodern-day forms of slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>When his professor challenges him by saying that his \u201clist\u201d of&nbsp;grievances is merely \u201cevidence of a flawed system,\u201d rather than slavery, West retorts, \u201cPerhaps, but not every system is designed to subjugate a specific group of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>West says \u201cthe&nbsp;structures\u201d of \u201cthe system\u201d are \u201cdesigned to keep a people out of neighborhoods, out of government, out of education, out of the workforce, and in some instances, out of society and in prisons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Watch Below:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier this year, the show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/03\/11\/oprah-winfrey-network-show-queen-sugar-brands-any-heterosexual-cisgendered-white-male-as-a-bad-guy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smeared<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cheterosexual cisgendered white males\u201d as beneficiaries of a corrupt social system that oppresses minorities.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The political messaging the series spews seem to echo the beliefs pushed by Winfrey. The media mogul has castigated the U.S. as suffering from \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2020\/10\/06\/oprah-winfrey-america-was-the-template-for-nazi-germany\/\">systemic racism<\/a>\u201d and flush with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2020\/08\/03\/oprah-hosts-white-guilt-session-whiteness-gives-you-an-advantage-no-matter-what\/\">white privilege<\/a>.\u201d<br \/><em>You can follow Alana&nbsp;Mastrangelo on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\">Facebook<\/a> and Twitter at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drama series\u00a0Queen Sugar \u2014\u00a0which airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network, owned by the media mogul whose\u00a0net worth comes in at an\u00a0estimated $2.6 billion \u2014 showed\u00a0a college student who refers &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}