STARCASM.NET 8 Hours Ago Oprah wears 'fro,' talks racism and Paula Deen N-Word scandal by Paula Deen Oprah, who's part of Lee Daniels' The Butler 's star-studded ensemble cast, is addressing Paula Deen's N-word controversy and her own personal experience with racism. "In the very first days I tried to reach her and then I decided to stay out of it as I saw it blowing up," she told Entertainment Tonight . "In time she will be fine. For me, it all just felt kind of sad." Oprah notes that while no one would ever use racial slurs with her to her face, (Twitter is a different matter,) she has experienced racism and sexism in the career, even recently. "Nobody in their right mind is going to call me the N-word. You know, you see those fools on Twitter sometime say ridiculous things. But nobody in their right mind is going to do that to my face, because true racism is being able to have power over somebody else. So that doesn't happen...