When Oprah and her friends play poker, they play with race cards.

Look out world, Oprah is gettin’ all mad because she wasn’t allowed to enter a Paris store after hours to spend her hard earned money. Some, including the "Big O" herself, are throwing the race card into the mix and Oprah herself has promised to talk about it on her show when it comes back from hiatus in September. Apparently Oprah wanted to do a little shopping at an upscale boutique in Paris, but was rebuffed with extreme prejudice, or so some say. Oprah arrived about 15 minutes after the store closed and the staff was reportedly working on a private event scheduled for the store. Oprah asked to run in and purchase something and the store employee told her she couldn’t.

Poor, poor Oprah, isn’t it enough that you have more money than 99.9% of the people in the world? She now needs to be able to enter any building in the world whenever she wants? Racism may be part of this, but I can’t see someone not recognizing Oprah whether or not she has her “TV” makeup and hair on. Oprah, except in some backwoods Southern towns, has transcended race. She is not black, she is Oprah. What else does Oprah need? What does Oprah not have that she has to get 15 minutes after a store closes? Isn’t it enough that you own the minds and hearts of the entire female population of the United States?

The only way I see racism playing a part in this case is the fact that the French hate everyone. They even hate themselves. I mean, what can you say about a country who criticizes the way that London gained the Olympic Games in 2012, just days after they suffered their worst bombing since Hitler? The mayor of Paris called shenanigans in respect to the way that London acquired the Olympics. He claims they used underhanded techniques in the wooing of the Olympic Committee. Couldn’t they have waited a few years? Doesn’t this look like France is trying to kick London while it is down? France is the largest consumers of Haterade. They even have a Minister of Hateration. They hate people. One of Oprah’s friends claimed that if it were Barbra Streisand or Celine Dion and not Oprah trying to enter the store after hours, then they would have let them in. Wrong! Wrong! They would not let Babs in, but I do concede they may have let Celine in because she is essentially French Light, as she is Canadian.

Welcome to the real world Oprah. I am a tall, white male, and I bet you my salary to Oprah’s, that the store would not have let me in. In fact the employee would have flicked her still burning cigarette in my eye for just asking. You got off lucky. My advice to Oprah is to just buy the store and then shut it down. And stay out of France, it doesn’t want you, it doesn’t want anybody.