At the 75th annual Golden Globes Awards, Oprah Winfrey and other Golden Globe nominees spoke out against the prevalence of sexual assault in the film industry at the Beverly Hilton hotel in California on Jan. 8.

After 25 years of hosting the Oprah Winfrey Show, Winfrey was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award for her contributions to the entertainment industry. For her acceptance speech, she decided to speak about the #metoo movement, racism, and sexism. After this, people were quick to think that she was going to run for president of 2020 with many magazine covers, celebrities talking about it and even people posting about her running for president on social media.

Sophomore Breanna Palacios said that Winfrey used a lot of strong words to represent her speech and why she should be president.

“I don’t think she’s kidding,” Palacios said. “I mean, she has the pride and courage to run if she wants.”

Junior Lanica Steele has been watching Winfrey for quite a while now. She happened to watch her speech at the ceremony… She is not comfortable with the current president’s actions.

“Not at all because he represents everything wrong with America,” Steele said, “He’s very sexist and racist.”

 Steele thought that the speech was inspiring and that Winfrey covered the main points of this national issue of predatory behavior.

“I think it was empowering that raising awareness about something that is so important nowadays. I think she said everything good and how she said it was perfect,” Steele said. “Of course, I think it was one of the most inspiring speeches in the last couple of years.”

Winfrey is the first black woman to win a Cecil B. DeMille Award, and it is seen that it will bring attention to some kids who want to be like her but have not yet broken out of their shell.

“It is not lost on me that, at this moment, there is some little girl watching as I become the first Black woman to be given the same award,” Winfrey said in her speech. “It is an honor and it is a privilege to share the evening with all of them.”

Students around this school have also talked quite a storm about Winfrey’s monologue and seem to be very intrigued about this.

“Of course, it was talked about throughout the whole school,” Steele said. “That’s what made me wanna watch it.”

Watch Ophra’s speech here.