The Paula Deen Sham

CedarParkFan

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I find it sad that Paula Deen is under fire for admitting under oath that she has used racial slurs in her lifetime and others get a pass. She is treated as a vile human being and is demonized while others who have done far worse are not held to the same standards.

Kanye West comes to mind. Besides his utterly classless antics at the Grammy awards a few years back, he has made a sex tape, and tweeted the following: "an abortion can cost a ballin' nigga up to 50gs maybe a 100. Gold diggin' ******* be getting pregnant on purpose. #STRAPUP my niggas!" and how about this gem: "IF IT WASN'T FOR RACE MIXING THERE'D BE NO VIDEO GIRLS. ME AND MOST OF OUR FRIENDS LIKE MUTTS A LOT. YEAH, IN THE HOOD THEY CALL 'EM MUTTS."

How about Snoop Dogg's unabashed and unapologetic glamorization of drugs and violence. Here is an excerpt from an interview not taken out of context. " So what if I`m smokin` weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It`s not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It`s a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that."

From a song by Ice Cube:
“Bust a Glock; devils get shot ... when God give the word me herd like the buffalo through the neighborhood; watch me blast ... I’m killing more crackers than Bosnia-Herzegovina, each and everyday ... don’t bust until you see the whites of his eyes, the whites of his skin ... Louis Farrakhan ... Bloods and CRIPS, and little old me, and we all getting ready for the enemy” Just a song, but still.

Jamie Foxx speaking on SNL about his movie Django Unchained:
"I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?” He went on to say, “My president, President Obama, is back up in the White House for four more years. How black is that?”


Alicia Keys even wears a necklace with an ak-47 on it , She said after she read about the black panthers , She felt she had to show her support for her black people by wearing the ak-47 necklace in black solidarity .
Vanessa was upset when she saw Sandra Bullock win an Oscar portraying a blonde white woman who rescued a black teen off the streets who became a star football player, Vanessa Williams was quoted saying We don't need white women saving our black men.



I could go on and on. You get the idea. There is a huge double-standard. The examples above are ignored because they are spoken by minorities. Yet a white woman admits to using slurs is basically hung out to dry. I guess it makes liberals feel good about themselves to express outrage. It's silly to be appalled at Paula Deen while saying nothing about other, more harful remarks made by minorities like those listed above.
 
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Someone needed to say it.
 
I know that some of the racism that Paula admits to happened in the 60's. Were those the only examples? If so, just about every 60+ year old
still in the work force would be out of a job.

The bs vomited from the mouths of the black celebrities does a huge disservice to the young black people that believe that garbage. We have a hell of a time convincing black kids that corporate America is begging for qualified black applicants. Part of my job is hiring new teachers and I have never interviewed a black person. Not a single one. My dad hires for his orginazation and also has a hard time getting black applicants. Yet somehow there is the perception in the black community that they wouldn't be welcomed. It's beyond ridiculous.
 
I am just glad that she is gone. She cooks the same stuff my grandmother cooked and just throws some extra butter and ooohs in there to make it TV worthy. I might hire her to be a cook at Waffle House but never understood how she was ever appointed a TV Chef.
 
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I know that some of the racism that Paula admits to happened in the 60's. Were those the only examples? If so, just about every 60+ year old
still in the work force would be out of a job.



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My dad was former military but pretty easy going. Using the "N' word was forbidden and one of the few things I could say that would get my *** busted. But I heard it a lot and used the term outside my father's hearing. After I grew up, I understood the damage of the word and abandoned it -- just like a lot of other stupid stuff.

I don't know what else Paula Deen is guilty of but there should be a statute of limitations on stupid things said as a youth.
 
In Deen's case, it wasn't just the use of the N-word fifty years ago that got her in trouble. Some of the comments she made in the deposition for the lawsuit filed by a former employee are rather revealing of her character - or lack thereof.

I suppose she gets an "A" for honesty, but I wouldn't want her anywhere around my children. Then again, perhaps her honesty is yet another example of her ingnorance.

Paula Deen's Deposition
 
From every definition I can find and in every database of inappropriate racial slurs, the term redneck is included.

Anybody want to put their job up for discussion based upon their use of a racially insensitive term? I bet a search of this forum alone would generate some unemployment.
 
Cedar Park Fan,

I see you don't understand my post. Pity.

You're own posts are all over the place. Your mention of "equal treatment" is a legal phrase that has nothing to do with what I posted. I never say a person should be jailed for using racist terms nor do I believe someone rabidly defending them should be jailed either. You're safe from me supporting any such legislation. That response of yours to a quote from me is off point.

The rest of your responses are dismissive. I now dismiss those posts of yours, so we're even. Whoopee.
 
I never mentioned legalities. Public perception was more of what I was getting at. My use of the term "equality" was not meant to be viewed as a legislative action. I thought you could see that. I never mentioned "jail." But, you did. Dismissive? What a clever way to avoid an intelligent response. Wow! My question again; Why should minority celebs not be held to the same standards as Deen? Care to answer?
 
Nice, honest thread Cedar Park Fan.

I grew up in the 50s and 60s in Amarillo. Eenie- meenie-miny- moe was how we chose our teams That's just how it was done. Nobody thought twice about it.

Amarillo was totally segregated back then; 4 white high schools, 1 for blacks (Carver), and 1 for hispanics (Coronado). Even when I got to UT in 1969, the football team was still all white, as was the bball team.

There was precisous little mixing of the races in 1950s Amarillo. Any Kardashian-type women back then would have had very hard lives indeed.

Paula Deen's sin was speaking honestly about the country and the culture that she grew up in. She should have looked her interrogator right in the eye and lied her *** off, like Bill Clinton; "I have never had sex with that woman Ms. Lewinsky." It's the American way.

In an insane land, a sane man must appear insane.
 
If anyone cares to know what was actually said in the deposition, you can read it here.

My take on it - the "n-word" stuff is way overblown. A 66-year old white woman who grew up in Georgia has used the n-word at some point in her life??? What a ******* shock!!! If she had never used the word in her life, that would have been more noteworthy, though no one with a brain would believe that in a million years.

What is actually underblown is that Deen said some pretty goofy things and made her company look pretty bad for reasons unrelated to the n-word nonsense. But who cares about the merits or whether Lisa Jackson was actually harassed? In the "all racism, all the time" media environment, someone using the "n-word" is the attention-grabber.
 
Rv may have tried to make a point but his apparent ignorance of basic grammar makes his (her?) post unreadable
 
what is the N word? is it the same word Chris Rock uses in his famous rant about loving black people?
 
Strangely, I agree with the more conservative posters on this thread.

Based on what we know, Paula Deen is not proven a racist at all. The PC crowd is out of control. Others on this thread have discussed the age/culture issue, so I don't need to do that. I will just say that anyone who thinks she is racist based on what we know so far is simply out of touch with reality. Maybe harsh...but that is what I think. If you can't see the difference between a deposition and how you live your life every day....well....think about it.

On the other hand, she has no filter on what she says. No person who has watched her on a regular basis will claim she is not somewhat uncivil. Someone else mentioned the term "redneck" and that probably describes her fairly well. But that does not make her racist.

Sometimes, the "witch hunt" mentality gets the best of people.
 
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