Oprah responds to racist robocalls impersonating her: 'VOTE your love!'

Oprah speaks about the midterm elections on Instagram
(Image credit: Oprah/Screenshot)

Oprah Winfrey responded Monday night to the news that a white supremacist group sent out racist robocalls impersonating her in Georgia this past weekend.

"I heard people are making racist robocalls in my name against [gubernatorial candidate] Stacey Abrams, who I am 100 percent for in Georgia," she said in a video on Instagram. "I just want to say: Jesus don’t like ugly."

Subscribe to The Week

Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.

SUBSCRIBE & SAVE
https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/flexiimages/jacafc5zvs1692883516.jpg

Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.

Sign up
Explore More
Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.