At Sunday’s Oscars a beauty magazine mistook actress Whoopi Goldberg for Oprah Winfrey and social media went wild.
What would have been a comical mistake if two people of any other race were misidentified became a cry of racism when the two black superstars were mixed up.
Despite the fact that the picture of Whoopi Goldberg DID resemble Oprah Winfrey on the red carpet the magazine that tweeted the snafu apologized.
Oprah herself responded to it by laughing it off as she flashed a puzzled face in a picture her best friend Gayle King posted to Instagram with the caption that read, in part, “we don’t all look alike Jeeeze!”
But on social media it was taken very seriously and used it as another opportunity, of many, to bash white people at the Academy Awards.
@HuffingtonPost of course, they were both in the same movie “Color Purple” 25 years ago. White folks are so clueless @Oprah @WhoopiGoldberg
— PureNTrue (@PureNTrue1) February 29, 2016
@usweekly Oscars so white Whoopi and Oprah were indistinguishable #dobetter
— darcem (@dedehill) February 29, 2016
This Oprah/Whoopi situation made me so angry. WHITE PEOPLE STAY TRYING TO CATCH HANDS! I hate how blatantly disrespectful they are.
— XXI•XXIII•III (@Just_Jozi) February 29, 2016
@TotalBeauty you managed to get the names of white actors correct but you can’t tell Oprah from Whoopi are you serious
— Tiana Quant (@TianaCarol) February 29, 2016
@ABC Yes ladies @WhoopiGoldberg @Oprah to some white people ALL blacks look the same and latin@s too. Blind & deaf (with no rythm) people!!
— Miros Viamonte (@Miritos99) February 29, 2016
@HuffingtonPost of course, they were both in the same movie “Color Purple” 25 years ago. White folks are so clueless @Oprah @WhoopiGoldberg
— PureNTrue (@PureNTrue1) February 29, 2016
Ok. Trying to understand how that Oprah / Whoopi mistake gets made. Is it just that young interns are tweeting? Blind, racist interns?
— Brian Koppelman (@briankoppelman) February 29, 2016
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