Sharon Osbourne: Miss Millie Lives On

I remember being nine years old and watching The Color Purple and being riveted by the overall struggles of Black people, but Black women, yet beaten down by men and society that they loved and contributed vastly to but did not love them in return. One scene that stuck with me. After Miss Sophia portrayed by Oprah Winfrey struck Miss Millie for asking her to be her maid, and putting her hands on her, as a condition of her release from prison, Miss Sophia was released into servitude. What prison did not take or beat out of Miss Sophia; Miss Millie finished.

Miss Sophia’s first job was to teach Miss Millie how to drive, which was a lesson in futility. Miss Millie considered herself being kind and gave Miss Millie a few hours home with her family for Christmas. However, Miss Millie could not drive for shit, had enormous difficulty backing up, became white woman scared when Miss Sophia’s big, strapping Black male relatives tried to assist her, and because of her fear, and her white woman tears, Miss Sophia had to cut her Christmas dinner/visit short with her family. At nine years old, I learned that white women would use their tears and victimhood to get anything they wanted.

Let us fast forward 36 years, shall we? On today’s episode of The Talk, the subject came up of Piers Morgan’s racism. The panel pretty much agreed that due to Piers’ denial of racism, his constant harassment…