Everyone that knows me KNOWS that this woman was my Idol.. I am a COOK and not a Chef... I love the Southern Comfort/ Soul Food.. Well Mrs. Deen has rocked my world a little.. Mrs Collard Greens have showed her ugly side...
When finding out about what she said.. To this day.. Her using the NIGGER word didn't bother me at all.. I looked at it this way. SHE GREW UP IN THE SOUTH WHEN NIGGER WAS A COMMON WORD TO DESCRIBE BLACKS!
I saw that the transcript stated that she said the LiL Niggers dressed up in BOW Tie and white coats dancing around at a Plantation Wedding.. That bothered me.. I have this strong hate for the Chicken George/ Mr. Bojangles stereotype.. Blacks dancing around for the entertainment for Whites.. Doing all kinds of funny stuff to amuse Whites.. Then on the Today show she said she only said it once when she was a Bank Teller..
Well I don't see that she said it once.. I know if she said it once, she has said it before..
The craziest stuff is those who defends Paula Deen and their comments and their sense of justification. .
They are saying why is is Racist when White says it and Blacks say it all the time.. Even saying stuff about having BET and Miss Black America.... I was waiting on them to start BLAMING Obama.. I mean the hatred has gotten way out of hand.. You are starting to know how people really feel..
It's even hard to try to explain to people why this is such a BIG DEAL... It was the context in which Paula Deen said it.. Even in a joking manner it has a racist feel.. So it has been interesting.. I still feel like some more of this is going to come out sooner or later...
I think that most of the companies are dropping Paula Deen in fear of loosing customers in the long run.. The people who are breaking Paula's life is not the Blacks that she has called Nigger in the past, but the People who is just the same color as she.. So Paula, is eating her own words.. She is not seeing how it feels to be Black in a America... She is being SHUNNED and a Outcast...
I think she will bounce back, in due time anyway..
You have to becareeful of the words you speak.. You never know who you are hurting, and nine out of ten, it's hurting you by kicking you in the arse...
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Yeah, the Southern Plantation line bothered me a whole lot more. She was just trying to eat her words because of all the heat and her losing everything.
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