Paula Deen Using N-Word and Making Racial Jokes During Deposition — Page 5

What are you taking about, Namo? Nowhere in that deposition does she say anything about "a bunch of little %&%&(^ in suits at a plantation wedding."

The discussion of the wedding begins on line 4 of page 125.

This TMZ video clip of a New York Times interview says so much...


Paula Deen - Meet My Black Friend:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0svowr0QYQY

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Updated On: 6/25/13 at 04:34 PM

Besty that plantation house is lovely.

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"If you ask any of my black friends, the comparison to a monkey is far more racist and offensive than using the N word."

I don't think it's good to hierarchize oppression.

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I was waiting for someone to pull the racist card on that picture.

It had nothing to do with the creature being a monkey, it had everything to do with the fact that Kanye is one ugly human and his child is going to be as homely as that little creature.


Besides,I call EVERY kid a monkey.


"When I saw it, I am honest to admit that I laughed."
"Hell, if you laughed at Diva's picture you're a little bit racist."

So, what's your point?

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I've used the word 'n*'. I've sung it on a stage, I've written it in a spoken-word piece about race, I've said the word when discussing the movie DJANGO UNCHAINED. I fully believe that if you're discussing the word, adults shouldn't have to use the infantile phrase 'The N Word.'

But I'm not a brand selling down-home, folksy, 'Remember the good ol' Southern days' lifestyle. And that's the problem. This is not about free speech. It's about the free market. If you do something to damage your brand, or worse, another brand with which you're associated, then it's going to have profound repercussions. Personally, I think her brand should have been permanently damaged when she hid her diabetes diagnosis while still encouraging her fans to pour butter down their throats. That was a true revelation of character? This new PR nightmare? I wish I could say I was surprised.

I am starting to feel sorry for her. Had she said what she said in the "apology" on the stand, rather than trying to justify it, this wouldn't be much of an issue.

Tom, the line she is accused of saying is, “Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around. Now, that would be a true Southern wedding, wouldn’t it? But we can’t do that because the media would be on me about that.”

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Anne Rice doesn't get it

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For the record, I thought someone would mention race with Diva's picture, but I, too, just saw it as an ugly kid. I have been saying all along that it would have Kanye's jowls and Kim's ass.

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Bravo, Robbie. Well put.

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I find it odd that it took this Johnson woman (I think that's her name) working there five years to come forward with complaints. Why work at a place for that long if you don't like it?

Back in the early '90s, I was the victim (sure, I'll use that word now) of sexual harassment in the workplace by a married man. The problem with situations like this is that they don't always advertise themselves with a neon sign. My first reaction was, "He's just joking," "He's one of those straight guys who thinks it's funny to 'pretend flirt' with other guys." He also wasn't very good at it. He was clumsy and direct, which made me laugh.

It was only after time went by, and he kept doing it that I realized something wasn't right. Maybe he wasn't kidding. Wait, was this all in my mind? Why would a straight, married guy at work flirt so openly with me?

The guy was a mess. A charming mess, though. I kept thinking, well, maybe it's flattering, I don't know.

Then two years go by, and suddenly nobody's laughing. He has a problem. Or is it me? Do I have a problem? Lots of psychological games go on.

And this is no joke, the day I was ready to report him with documented examples that I had started to keep in a journal, he was fired and escorted out of the office in front of me.

Apparently, I wasn't the only guy he was flirting with. He also showed up to work drunk a few times (I never noticed it, but others who worked in his department sure did).

So that thing, that little problem that was "just in my mind," turned into a very real, very serious emotional ordeal. I also didn't realize how much stress I was actually under because of it until it suddenly lifted the day he was fired. Then it hit me, and I was mad at myself for not doing something about it sooner. For giving him the benefit of the doubt for so long. But it didn't happen overnight. It never does. It's one "odd" or "off color" incident at a time, until finally you realize what's going on. Oh, by the way, you also worry that if you've put up with it before, why are you suddenly objecting to it? Are you a hypocrite? Did you suddenly change your standards? Maybe it's YOU with the problem. Lots of mind games go on.

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Updated On: 6/25/13 at 05:57 PM

Call it what you want. I showed that picture to three of my Black friends and they did not equate it with being an ugly baby. They equated it with a monkey baby. Like one said, " You call me a N, I call you a MF cracker. You call me a gorilla and those are fighting words" And my original point was if Paula Deen is a racist for using the N word several years ago, then that picture to those posters should be as equally offensive. Wasn't an attack on you, but an observation on the double standards of this board. But, with the exception of PRS, those who want to say the picture was something else, well so be it. And stating that I laughed at the picture and if someone else laughed at it, is my point that all of us have a little racism, bigotry and judgement inside us. Or maybe, I'm the only honest one to admit it.