Oprah Winfrey powerfully fired back against racist robocalls purporting to be her discussing Georgia’s gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who the media mogul has been campaigning for.
In a pointed video on Instagram, Oprah, wearing a white shirt with the word VOTE in primary colors, spoke directly to the camera in the short clip.
‘I heard people were making racist robocalls in my name against Stacey Abrams, who I am one hundred percent for, in Georgia,’ Winfrey explained.
‘I just want to say: Jesus don’t like ugly…And we know what to do about that: vote. Tomorrow show up and show out, and vote.’
Last week Oprah shared clips of her and her team canvassing homes in Georgia on Thursday to urge residents to get out and vote for Abrams.
The robocall was sent out to homes last week from a white supremacist group using the name ‘TheRoadToPower’ who unleashed the racist robocall mimicking Oprah’s voice, and left nasty messages at people’s homes.
The Georgia’s governors race has been fraught with a race-laden debate over ballot access and voter suppression.
Orpah and her team went door-to-door canvassing in Georgia last week in support of gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams
One of the women Oprah met while canvassing ran outside with her sign
Both Abrams and her Republican opponent Briant Kemp have condemned the automated telephone call filled with racist and anti-Semitic statements just days before the historic vote for Georgia’s next governor.
Abrams would be the first black female governor in U.S. history.
Kemp, who oversees elections as Georgia’s secretary of state, vehemently denies charges that he’s used his office to make it harder for minorities to vote.
The robocall says it was paid for by The Road to Power, a group organized by Scott Rhodes of Idaho.
He has been linked to several other racist robocalls, including a recent effort in Florida, where Democratic nominee Andrew Gillum would become the first black governor in his state’s history.