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Carter: Paula Deen Should Be Forgiven
CNN.com ^ | June 29, 2013 | Joe Sterling

Posted on 06/29/2013 4:13:47 AM PDT by Biggirl

(CNN) -- Former President Jimmy Carter said embattled celebrity chef Paula Deen should be forgiven, arguing that while there's no condoning the racial slurs she uttered, the well-known personality has been candid and apologetic.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: carter; deen; forgiveness; jimmycarter; nword; pauladeen
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1 posted on 06/29/2013 4:13:47 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: Biggirl

Jimmah has a dog in this fight. He has his racist past to be forgiven for.


2 posted on 06/29/2013 4:15:08 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Biggirl

Senator Byrd was given a pass. So should Paula.


3 posted on 06/29/2013 4:17:43 AM PDT by FES0844
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After she has humiliated herself to the country on her apologetic tour she will be forgiven because she’s a rat who voted for the rat


4 posted on 06/29/2013 4:17:59 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Yesterdays conspiracies are todays truths)
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To: FES0844

IIRC, “Sheets Byrd” actually used the N-word on the Senate floor or in some media interview once.


5 posted on 06/29/2013 4:19:00 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Biggirl

Forgiven for what as*hole?


6 posted on 06/29/2013 4:19:53 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Biggirl

The liberals are such hypocrites. When Jimmy was campaigning for president, he was quoted by the press as saying that he thought neighborhoods should be able to maintain “ethnic purity.” He apologized and explained, etc., and was forgiven and elected. But Paula Deen is crucified, loses all of her endorsement deals, her TV show. Liberals are disgusting.


7 posted on 06/29/2013 4:19:55 AM PDT by Rocky (Obama is pure evil.)
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To: Biggirl

If I’m being held by gunpoint by ANYONE, you’d better believe I’ll be calling them by every offensive, demeaning name I can think of. Of course, Whoopi says you should be calling such a person “sir”. I guess she figures they are entitled to rob.


8 posted on 06/29/2013 4:22:45 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Gaffer

Byrd said “white nigger” in an interview. He was trying to make some kind of cultural point about how people talked in the South, back in the day. He wasn’t saying that HE said those words, but I believe he referenced a mother or grandmother.

Which was all beside the point, since the rap on sheets Byrd was his Klan activities and known racist attitudes. All of which were overlooked because he was a Dem power broker and otherwise a LIB.

As for the words “white nigger”, it all depends on who says them. If a Byrd says them, they could be forgiven because when he repeated them on tv he wasn’t specifically aiming them at Black people, he was talking about a cultural expression he had heard. Any excuse will do, for a Byrd. But if Paula Deen were to say them, well, her life is over. No excuses.

From what I know, “white nigger” is a derogatory term for a white person who has so associated themselves with Blacks, they might as well be one.

Another usage might be as a synonym for “white trash”, which is a derogatory way of linking a white person to Blacks - or at least to what was condemed as a lifestyle of poor Blacks.


9 posted on 06/29/2013 4:41:54 AM PDT by txrangerette ("...hold to the truth; speak without fear". - Glenn Beck)
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To: Biggirl

Jimmah needs to shut up, forever.


10 posted on 06/29/2013 4:44:34 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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Either that or we lock up every rap artist.

Apparently speaking the word nigger is ok as long as you're doing it to a drum beat.

11 posted on 06/29/2013 4:55:26 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set)
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Yes, it is perfectly OK for a white person to sing a ‘nigga’ rap. As soon as you lose the rhythm though white boy, you daid!


12 posted on 06/29/2013 5:02:47 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Biggirl

Wasn’t Jimmah the pre-”First Black President”?


13 posted on 06/29/2013 5:04:29 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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Are Walmart and Target still selling rap CDs?


14 posted on 06/29/2013 5:04:49 AM PDT by CPOSharky (If it ain't broke, fix it till it is.)
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“Forgiving” Paula Deen is a nobrainer for anyone with basic intelligence. The relevant question here is should we ever forgive Jimmy Carter?


15 posted on 06/29/2013 5:07:31 AM PDT by Uncle Lonny
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The reason I lost interest in Paula Dean was when I saw her show with Jimmah...fawning and falling over herself to cook something for him. Now this...it doesn’t surprise me. He will reach down and pull her up from bended knee after she kisses his progressive ring. He is so kind and loving and forgiving and....


16 posted on 06/29/2013 5:28:04 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( EVERY DIME Obama Spends is given to him by the Republicans in the House.)
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To: Biggirl

I wish this ahole would kick off already. His celebratory state funeral is too far overdue.


17 posted on 06/29/2013 5:31:54 AM PDT by wrencher
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Talk about bigotry, they don’t think of Paula Deen as someone who may indeed have “evolved” thus becoming a better person, etc...as though liberals are the only people capable of that.


18 posted on 06/29/2013 5:40:35 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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He would know....

Jimmy Carter: Recovering Racist, Still a Bigot

Carter stopped by the Rebel Room Tavern, a bar that once existed near the old Woolworth building and catered to southern servicemen based near by (Ft. Drum). Not knowing that an employee from the local paper was present, Carter joked around with the locals and, as two of those locals related the story to my friend, "every other word out of his mouth was 'nigger' or 'kike.'"

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/julia/gorin060106.php3

Gorin is right on target here. I know of this incident, and there are more locals who speak of it privately, than are willing to talk about it on the record.

19 posted on 06/29/2013 5:40:49 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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I never heard of Paula Deen until this became news. So I ask why is this news? And why would anyone give a rats rear end what someone said 25 or so years ago.


20 posted on 06/29/2013 5:43:05 AM PDT by Fzob (In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. Jefferson)
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