But that is just one mans opinion

January 11, 1999

The Truth...
During the holidays a lot of you celebrated, shopped and spent. But before addressing that subject (and Suze Orman's techniques for undoing the financial damage it may have caused) Oprah put to rest a rumor about designer Tommy Hilfiger. For the record, the rumored event that has circulated on the Internet and by word-of-mouth never happened. Mr. Hilfiger has never appeared on the show. In fact, Oprah has never even met him. With that cleared up, we now return you to your regularly scheduled Scoop...

Good for Oprah
> > Don't buy your next shirt or perfume from Tommy
>Hilfiger. I'm sure many of you watched the recent
>taping of the Oprah Winfrey show where her guest was
>Tommy Hilfiger.

On the show, she asked him if the
>statements about race he was accused of saying were
>true. Statements like "...if I'd known
>African-Americans, Hispanics, Jewish and Asians would
>buy my clothes, I would not have made them so nice. I
>wish these people would *NOT* buy my clothes, as they
>are made for upper class white people."

> > His answer to Oprah was a simple "YES".

Where after she immediately asked him to leave her show.

My suggestion? Let's give him what he asked for. Let's
>not buy his clothes, let's put him in a financial
>state where he himself will not be able to afford the
>ridiculous prices he puts on his clothes.

That persons name was never mentioned in the posting. Yet they felt that it was disrespectful of them, how I'm not sure.

All I was doing was pointing out to everyone on an open forum that people that send out Emails of that nature should check them out before helping spread lies.

I guess that Education was a bad thing to suggest in this instance. If the above post offended anyone I'm sorry, just trying to show that thinking before you act is a wise thing to do, especially in todays world.

If your offended by this message it is only because you are embarrassed that you didn't researched what you've sent and mislead or misguided others by what info you've shared with them.

Sorry everyone, but I have to agree with Eric on this one. If you don't know what you are sending don't send it until you do.

If Eric was disrespectful in informing everyone the truth, the person who sent it was just as disrespectful if not more so by misinforming us with false info.