Brannon Carty,

Date 16 / 01 / 2001 Miss Oprah Winfrey Harpo Productions inc

Chicago I1

Dear Miss Winfrey ,

I feer this may be the last Light commutation I will be able to make with you . I also feer there may be nothing in this letter of which you already don't know . For instance : though I once admired you , mow , from the time I awake in the morning to the time I go to sleep at might , I feel as though because of the circumstances in which you launched your magazine "0" as if you have litterly raped and pillaged me , and I find this hard to accept as would anyone or anyone whom I have spoken to about this incident . You also have to know as do I that you had a number of other choices , better choices which would have been morally and ethically more acceptable than that of nonreconizition .

Since it was that letter I sent to your offices back in the month.of'Febiary

which gave you the idea to launch this thing , and since had I mot sent you that letter there is no reason to beleave you would have it even today , you could have offered me space in which to be published . Of course you knew the reason I wished to be published , so , I understand why you decided mot to do this ; though I don't agree and think it was a bad choice . Naturally though , since that was your choice , I had no choice bit to accept it .. However , you could have dome the next best thing and made some sort of monetary gesture and even insisted on a "gag order" preventing me from ever telling anyone it was because of me that you had this magazine-, and still allowing me some dignity

I understand that companies want the right to earn money and that they should be judged by what they have dome , mot by what people think they should do . However since what you have dome in order to earn both extra finds and prestigious for yourself is nothing less than commit an act against me of nothing less than rape and plunder

and because of your position , especially or not , you do have a moral and ethical oblation towards me which to date - nearly one year later you have failed to meet for who knows for how meny varied reasons . I would therefore suggest , though I don't wish this to sound like a threat but a guarantee , should it be your interest for The White House and possibly even if it is not , I have documented proof you stole your idea for a magazine from me and I can take any one of these letters to any one of of a number of "republican" politicians , who I am certain would be more than a little interested in what is inside .

Since your actions to date seem to indicate you have no interest in correcting this situation , there-by allowing me to finally have a decent nights sleep after one year , at present I can see no way of avoiding sending copies of these letters to your adversaries ; allowing them to make of them what they will . Understandably , should this matter be taken to court , where I beleave I will win , there is no reason to think that your creditability won't be shot . At that point I think it is fair to say eather your Doctorate of Letters or that magazine won't be worth the paper they are printed on .

If it is a fight you wish Miss Winfrey , it is not one I will back away from . I in fact beleave should this thing get messy , you are the only one who is going to get hurt . My cause would become public knowledge - as would the reason you have decided to do so ( your secrete quest for The White House ). :It would be you who set the black movement back ten years and in the end nobody will ever forgive you for that .

Whatever you decide , I hope it can be mutually agreed upon . I am still prepared to be leant . I however am not prepared to be all suffering for all time and feer that the clock is winding down .