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Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:00 AM

What Oprah can't forget

Critics of her sanctuary for South African girls be damned -- the media mogul's generosity is beyond reproach. But her PR gaffes around the school's opening revealed the scars of her own impoverished past.

By Rebecca Traister

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Saturday, January 13, 2007 10:23 PM

Melding the school into the infrastructure...

Chief among my concerns is whether Oprah's new school campus can be wholly accommodated by the local community/municipality as far as fresh water, electrical, sewage, and any other power and/or sanitation needs are concerned.

I bring this up because of a comment of Oprah's, stating that the community locals brought her a plan that she likened to the building of chicken coops... but perhaps their concerns dealt with the local area's ability to deal with such a campus (when one considers heating/cooling, drainage, sewage, and similar factors.)

I don't know if her new campus is on an urban-like grid, or further from certain facilities that could readily accommodate her structures.

Oprah may be African-American, but somewhere she must recognize that her big dream and passion is being realized IN AFRICA... and it is NOT a suburb of Chicago.

I would have asked her, (had I had her ear), to respect the land, people, and community upon which she built 'her' life's dream... and also, perhaps, to realize that she herself, as a little girl, is not the exact duplicate of the girls she hopes to inspire.

—cheekier Read cheekier's other letters

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