Posted on 06/30/2013 4:24:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
‘Clueless’ actress Stacey Dash tweeted her support for disgraced chef Paula Deen and the criticism was harsh and instantaneous.
As previously reported by NewsOne, Deen was fired by ‘The Food Network’ after admitting to using the racial slur X and plantation fantasies about having Black men dress in white shorts and bow-ties to serve food at a wedding reception.
Lisa Jackson, a former general manager of Bubba’s Oyster and Seafood House in Savannah, Georgia, alleged in a lawsuit that she experienced emotional distress after being racially and sexually harassed in the workplace.
The restaurant is co-owned by Deen and her brother Bubba Hiers.
Though Deen denied the charges, she admitted to using the racial slur after allegedly being robbed by a Black man.
During the ensuing fallout, Deen has also been dropped by Wal-Mart, Target, Diabetes drug maker Novo Nordisk, Caesars Entertainment and Smithfield Foods.
Deen has not been without some unlikely supporters and unexpected sympathizers and rationalizers. They include Rev. Al Sharpton, who said she shouldn’t be judged on using a racial slur in her past, Dr. Boyce Watkins, who in an appearance on CNN’s AC360 argued that Deen’s age and environment should be taken into account when judging her; Roland Martin, who argued that Black people should be just as upset when other Black people use the n-word as racist White people; and Bill Maher, who defended Deen‘s use of the word X by declaring it freedom of speech on par with Hip-Hop music.
Today, Rev. Jesse Jackson joined in and said that Deen shouldn’t be a “sacrificial lamb.” See some reactions to Dash’s support of Deen below:
Lisa Jackson, a former general manager of Bubba’s Oyster and Seafood House in Savannah, Georgia, alleged in a lawsuit that she experienced emotional distress after being racially and sexually harassed in the workplace.
Yeah they must have be major racists to hire her for the position in the first place! And how long had this been going on and what prompted the lawsuit?
Paula Deen is not disgraced. She was set up for extortion.
Nice try. Lisa Jacxson is white. She’s a good person because she hired and harassed a white person?
Set up for extortion by who? She’s a miserable hypocrite who belied the same rules she would apply to others, shouldn’t apply to her. Just because she’s friends with Michelle Obama, she can treat people any way she wants?
You accidently double posted.
This thread had ONE reply
While your other one had FOURTEEN
And the moderator shut the other one down.
With logic like that, the Mod must be a democrat.
Missed that, but still if this with Paula Dean happened twenty five years ago the question still stands why now?
If this allegedly happened twenty five years ago, that alone casts doubt on it. A grudge perhaps?
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