Oprah Winfrey entered the DNC stage to resounding cheers Wednesday night and delivered a speech that celebrated the path that began with the New Orleans Four, Gail Etienne, Tessie Prevost, and Leona Tate, who were in first grade when they were tasked with desegregating McDonogh 19 Elementary School, and Ruby Bridges, a student at William Frantz Elementary School. “Who says you can’t go home again?” she asked the crowd. “After watching the Obamas last night, that was some epic fire, wasn’t it? Some epic fire.
We’re now so fired up, we can’t wait to leave here and do something — and what we’re going to do is elect Kamala Harris as the next President of the United States!” BREAKING NEWS: Billionaire Oprah Winfrey is currently speaking on stage at the DNC to raise support for Kamala Harris. — Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) Winfrey said that she was added to speak on the night’s theme, freedom. “There are people who want you to see our country as a nation of us against them, people who want to scare you, who want to rule you, people who’d have you believe that books are dangerous and assault rifles are safe,” she said.
“That there’s a right way to worship and a wrong way to love. People who seek first to divide and then to conquer.” “But here’s the thing: when we stand together, it is impossible to conquer us,” she said.
Winfrey also called to mind the late Congressman John Lewis, who “was one of the brilliant Americans w.