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Oprah Winfrey captivated the audience at the Golden Globes awards with a powerful speech as she accepted the Cecil B DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award on Sunday night.
The media mogul addressed racial unfairness and sexual abuse on an evening in which women wore black to show support for the #MeToo movement.
She started by talking about Sidney Poitier, who won the 1964 Academy Award for best actor and, in doing so, became the first black man to win an Oscar. Eighteen years later, he received the Cecil B DeMille award at the 1982 Golden Globes.
According to her “In 1982, Sidney received the Cecil B DeMille award right here at the Golden Globes and it is not lost on me that at this moment, there are some little girls watching as I become the first black woman to be given this same award.
“It is an honor – it is an honor and it is a privilege to share the evening with all of them and also with the incredible men and women who have inspired me, who challenged me, who sustained me and made my journey to this stage possible.”
On victims of sexual abuse, Oprah revealed that the recent disclosures about Hollywood’s prevalent sexual misbehavior go well beyond the entertainment industry, noting that the issue “transcends any culture, geography, race, religion, politics, or workplace”.
“So I want tonight to express gratitude to all the women who have endured years of abuse and assault because they, like my mother, had children to feed and bills to pay and dreams to pursue.They’re the women whose names we’ll never know. They are domestic workers and farm workers. They are working in factories and they work in restaurants and they’re in academia, engineering, medicine, and science. They’re part of the world of tech and politics and business. They’re our athletes in the Olympics and they’re our soldiers in the military” she said.
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Watch her speech below
https://youtu.be/ss6qQM054B0