Paula Deen Using N-Word and Making Racial Jokes During Deposition — Page 2

Awwww, Paula is an...
Accidental Racist

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She needs to just go away. She's lost all sense of credibility. Here is a woman who was given a platform to make a difference and she totally loused it up. First by concealing the fact she suffered from diabetes and still hawking her unhealthy recipes and now this.

I'm not sure how I feel about her apology. It doesn't ring true. It doesn't ring from the heart. It smacks of a rushed attempt at damage control.

I hate when these apologies are issued by celebrities and they start using the go-to buzz words of the moment: "We all make mistakes and I hope to learn and grow from this." It doesn't come off as sincere. It smacks of condescension.

Carlos I agree. I never really paid much attention to her . So I have nothing vested in her as a celebrity-personality. Other than she was fun in the talk shows. Especially whenever she was on with her friend Oprah. When do you think the Oprah sit down is happening?

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And, it looks like she's been fired...
Jesus Christ, Paula Deen Just Released ANOTHER Apology (and Got Fired)

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Why some of her best friends are black!

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John Oliver explains it all!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS4U52jL3iM

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The thing about Paula Deen and other hosts on Food Network or HGTV (or any of the many offshoots), they are not just selling us a recipe or a house. They are selling millions of fans an ideal "fantasy lifestyle." It includes everything, from the magnificent yet cozy kitchen the size of a football field, to those hot guys who come to fix your plumbing.

HGTV and Food Network are very careful (and actually very good) about keeping their ideal fantasy programming diverse, accommodating, friendly, and above all else, "no big deal." They don't draw attention to the fact that a lesbian couple is house hunting for their first home. It's a non-issue. But they are well aware that they are selling their national audience this "lifestyle" that includes young and old, rich and "budget-minded," all races, religions, orientations.

There is no place in their programming for a host who throws the N-word around at the office and really likes the idea of black people dressing at slaves for a big party she's throwing.

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I think, though, what you have to understand about people whose family has lived generations within the South-- is that our grandparents are racist. They use the "N" word-- not constantly, not regularly, and usually not to a black person's face-- but Southerners hear their elders use that word. And all one can do is tell them not to use it. But you don't call grandma a racist-- even though she is. It's a very complicated feeling. Yes, it's backwoods. Yes, it's terrible. Yes, it's why racial attitudes are only slowly changing here. But it's a part of life in the South.

If Deen were thirty years younger, I think-- I hope, it would be a different story. I think modern Southerners would expect modern Southerners to not harbor racist attitudes-- or at least to not get away with it. But our elders really do come from a different time. I say this not to defend Deen, and I hope I haven't, but to explain why people, white Southerners in particular, [i]will[/i] defend her.

Also, it's not like Martin Luther King and the civil rights era was a decade or so ago. She's 66. She was a grown woman then. Age ain't an excuse anymore, either.

I'll say it again:

I'm not defending Deen, & I agree that racism is racism is racism-- I was merely explaining why Deen is defended.

Thanks, I couldn't tell whether people were attacking the logic, or me for bringing it up.

You can actually see where the butter has collected in her legs.

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Updated On: 6/21/13 at 09:40 PM

LOL ^^^

Ya'll, if ya don't mind I just wanna bring it down a minute and remind you that it was a different time, back in the 1980s, there wasn't the awareness that you have today. Even in the '90s and 2000s there weren't really the successful educated Condoleeza Rices who are so clean and neat and articulate or your Colon Powells. Ya'll today are so lucky and have it so much better with your rap hop stars and your clean and educated Wanda Sykes types to give you the 911 on the colored experience. Bless.

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