Posted on 06/20/2013 5:45:27 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Paula Deen has been called for a deposition in connection with a lawsuit filed by a former employee at the Savannah, Georgia restaurant she co-owns with her brother Earl "Bubba" Hiers. The celebrity chef, 66, was questioned about her alleged use of racial slur and jokes.
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lived in the ghetto not love, certainly not love
I totally diagree with you. I think it’s worse when blacks use it against each other than when white’s use the word. They most certainly do use it to denigrate each other. They are the ones to claim to be hurt by the word, therefore they shouldn’t be using it at all.
I don’t like Paula Dean because she’s a big fat liberal, not because of her use of a word.
I grew up in Savannah, GA, not very far from where Paula Deen grew up, in the 1950s and 1960s. EVERYONE used the word, including blacks themselves. I get that blacks don’t like the word and try not to use it but if you grew up in the Deep South in that time period it was in common usage. People are going to make mistakes and I’m sure this was a case of her not censoring herself in time. My parents were transplanted Yankees and half my father’s employees were black so I didn’t get the racist thing. Some of those guys who worked for my dad were friends with him, and me, until his or their deaths. I really hope this doesn’t hurt her career too much. And yeah it really gripes me that they still regularly use the term to describe each other bur want to lynch a white person who uses it.
If you ever uttered the words; DAGO, GREASER, WOP, MOBSTER, MAFIA, WISEGUYS, GINNIE’S, et al, etc.. Don’t talk to me ever again unless you apologize.. My children and grown grandkids won’t be calling anytime soon, I’ve been told.. :)
but only as a reference to BEHAVIOR and/or ATTITUDE.
Maybe we can call them all mouth breathers................
Exactly!
Remember her sucking up to Mooch and Mr. Jimmah on her show?
No mercy....
And damn proud of it.
With nobody responding, really says it all.. jeeze :)
I understand the problem with using the n-word.
So, in the interest of fairness and getting rid of racist terms, that whether it is a white *sshole or a black *sshole you wish to address, that we simply use the M-word.
Example: “That stupid m-word cut me off.”
“And yeah it really gripes me that they still regularly use the term to describe each other bur want to lynch a white person who uses it.”
It is a power word. They can freely use it but it is a weapon for them to use against others to stifle free speech, for jury nullification (see OJ) and monetary gain.
They must have really liked you.
When you outlaw a person’s words, you control them. Coming soon the outlaw words... Freedom, Patriot, Tea Party, Constitution,
and Founding Fathers.
I’m about the same age as Paula Deen, and she was born and raised in Georgia, and I was raised in Mississippi, so we probably had about the same experiences growing up.
When we were small children, in the 50’s and 60’s, just learning to talk, we obviously would learn words and their usage through listening to our parents and other adults, just like anybody else on the planet.
We would learn that this thing we lived in was called a ‘house’, we rode in ‘cars’, there was a ‘tree’ in the front yard, the man mowing the yard was a ‘n-word’. We had no other word for them in common usage. It was not especially ‘racist’, it was like calling a bear a bear and a duck or a duck. As small children we knew no other word with which to refer to black people. It was used in common conversation, even between blacks and whites, to refer to a person that was black, no insult intended or meant.
It was not until the end of Civil Rights Era that the n-word became un-civil in public use.......
The longer her show was on the worse the exaggerated Southern Drawl got, add on her Yeller Dog Dem liberalism, grew tired of watching.
All that aside, her restaurant is food paradise!
That's because we are shocked that you even speak English, since you just got 'off the boat'.
: )
Really?
I heard otherwise but have not been there myself so bow to your greater knowledge.
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