Paula Deen goes complete racist....(and like most racists, she doesn't

[Bennyboy]

even realize it.

Cooking show host Paula Deen has come under fire for pushing a version of Southern cuisine that emphasized fat, salt, and sugar rather than health, and for becoming a spokeswoman for a pharmaceutical company that makes much of its profits from insulin after she was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, even though her core cooking business was arguably creating new customers for diabetes drugs. And this week, Deen found herself tipped from the frying pan into the fire this week after a deposition surfaced in which she discussed her use of the term “nigger” and discussing her vision for a “southern plantation-style wedding” that would feature black servers.

Deen was deposed as part of an employment discrimination case in which a former restaurant manager, Lisa Jackson, suggested that Deen said things like, “Well what I would really like is a bunch of little niggers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around,” and that her remarks were part of a pervasive discriminatory environment.

More at Link: http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/06/20/2185391/tv-chef-paula-deens-plantation-nostalgia-and-the-resentments-of-racists/

[Skittles]

1. she is disgusting

in EVERY way

[Puzzledtraveller]

2. This is racism

[Buzz Clik]

3. Nah. Racism doesn't exist. Ask any racist.

"I don't have a racist bone in my body."

Discussion over.

[JustAnotherGen]

4. +1

Oh the things I've learned at DU the past few weeks. The things I've learned.

[Bake]

5. Too bad it wasn't Deen with the heart attack instead of Gandolfini.

If anybody needed a HA, it's Deen ...

Just sayin'

Bake

[fishwax]

6. a disgraceful display

[Sheldon Cooper]

7. What a racist asshole.

Honestly, who in their right mind doesn't know better than to say things like that? Even if you have those thoughts, are you so stupid that you'd actually say them out loud? I've never liked that woman, and this is the frosting on the cake.

[JustAnotherGen]

8. I think a large number of

Americans actually DO think that way.

I kind of have a weird respect for Deen. You know - as a black American - I wouldn't want that targeted at me.

But at least she is HONEST.

A lot of people think it - but just 'wrap it up' in 'advisement' that I'm uppity, or they were shocked I've never had children, or that I was married, or have a college degree.

At least she comes right out and says it instead of trying to dance around how I'm not "black like that". Give the woman credit for honesty.

And she was still hiring black people. She might be a bigot -but she's not a racist and impacting blacks economically.

[Phentex]

9. Honest? How do we know that? She lied about the diabetes stuff...

she claimed she always promoted moderation which was complete and utter bullshit if anyone had ever seen her show or read her cookbooks (I have!)

She had the opportunity to be honest about it but nooooooooooo she decided to make a buck or two instead. Why should I believe she is being honest about this?

She may not be racist but she certainly is not honest.

[appleannie1]

10. I can't stand her syruppy sweet drawl that resonates phony every time she opens her mouth.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

12. Exactly. I've worked with a couple of women who...

turned on that accent when they wanted something, particularly when men were involved. I can't stand the phoniness, and those accents are like nails on a chalkboard. Conversely, there are some soft, melodic Southern accents that really are a pleasure to hear.

[appleannie1]

15. My sister was born in PGH and did not move to Alabama until she was in her 30's. She talks just

like Paula. It drives me up a wall. Like you said, it is like nails on a chalkboard.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

18. That's interesting for someone in their 30's to adopt that accent.

I live in an area with many PGH transplants and can spot them right away. I'm from SW PA, but moved to the DC area as a child and lost the accent. Well, for the most part -- it still comes out with certain words and expressions. Slippy!

[appleannie1]

31. Redd up the house

[WorseBeforeBetter]

34. Heh heh.

I've dropped yinz and gum bands and pop, but forever gobs!:

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/sectionfront/life/johnstown-bakery-owns-rights-to-gobs-254350/

[Brainstormy]

13. Nothing phoney about it

She sounds exactly like my former sister-in-law, who couldn't fake an orgasm, and half my Mississippi Delta relatives. You may not like it, but it's authentic.

[KansDem]

32. "...she opens her mouth."

I always found her teeth to be just a tad too white:



Now I know why...

[Erose999]

33. Probably dentures. When my dad enlisted in 1964 the Army Dr. said he had the "best teeth I've ever

seen" druing his physical. Dad then took out his dentures and said "they ought to be good, I'm still making payments on them". His teeth were all gone by 18, combination of bad diet, lack of dental care, etc.

[leftynyc]

16. I feel sorry for your upbringing

Because the attitude of "they should stay away from us" is EXACTLY the segregationist policy of the KKK. Sorry you don't see that. That you want to give her credit for being an honest racist makes my head hurt.

[Happyhippychick]

17. Are you joking?

[JustAnotherGen]

21. That person

Is absolutely serious.

Probably doesn't understand why we have a day for MLK either. I mean really Jim Crow wasn't that bad. Them ones Liked it.


But - that's okay - The When Did You Become A Racist Crew will be here in a few minutes to slap him on the back. Watch. Whose gonna be first?

[JustAnotherGen]

20. How effing old are you

Where did you grow up?

Because in 1981 Corey Bower called my mother a 'nigger lover' on the playground and I beat the shit out of him. The loser boy a full head bigger than me and held back in school two years got his ass handed to him by a girl.

All because he kept cracking on her about being a zebra and calling her mother a 'nigger lover'.

You must have grown up with him - because Nigger is a hateful vicious thing where I come from.

And it is never harmless.

[Apophis]

22. Wow. Are you being serious right now?

[JustAnotherGen]

26. Disagree

She has money and power that Duke does not.

She also is far more visible and 'accepted' than he is.

And that makes her very very dangerous.


We have to go after her distributors. Replace her on the shelves everywhere with B. Smith's stuff.

[Orrex]

25. That's close to the dumbest thing I've read all day.

Which is really saying something, because I read HuffPo this morning.

[giftedgirl77]

27. ahh the old that's just the way we were

raised excuse.

Fuck that, it doesn't make them any less of an asshole. Once you reach adulthood & haven't figured out it is wrong to use such language & be a bigot then that excuse is null & void.

[geek tragedy]

28. 'They weren't KKK-racist, it was more like "They should stay away from us" attitude. '

Yeah, nothing racist about telling black people that "they should stay away from us."

Most clueless post ever.

[Initech]

14. Anyone who begins a sentence with "I'm not racist, but..." is racist.

[SoCalDem]

19. It's been taught & reinforced in LOTS of families and is a part of their nature

"They" don't believe they are racist because they won;t allow themselves to ever really think about their actions/beliefs.

Public figures can suppress their true beliefs for a while, but eventually it catches up to them.

My friend summed it up for me.. He said when he was young (Alabama) he grew up KNOWING his place in society and he knew his "enemies" because of the way they treated him , his friends and his family, but after Civil Rights and many moves north and west, he grew accustomed to not knowing...suspecting always, but never really knowing until a situation became dangerous.

He also said that raising HIS kids was actually harder than the raising of him and his brothers & sisters...back when things were truly black & white. He & his wife have 2 sons & he said that when they were young (the boys) they had a multicultural group of friends, but it was paramount to teach them about the dangers of DWB and they THEY had extra things to learn than their friends did. (dealing with the law).

Being a black teenaged boy is very dangerous no matter where you live. He once said that having grandchildren was his most prized "accomplishment" because it proved that he & his wife succeeded in keeping their sons safe & alive long enough to grow up & become Dads. (One's a lawyer..the other a businessman)

[leftyladyfrommo]

23. I think a lot of people overcompensate when it comes to racism.

I see that all the time here in KCMO. So many of the older people here came up during a very racist time. That racism goes deep in their consciousness and they know it. And they don't like it. But it's there and I don't know anyway you can overcome something like that. So they overcompensate. Try too hard to be nice or understanding or whatever.

They aren't awful people just the product of very different times.

[AndyA]

29. Paula Deen sounds like a racist to me.

Not everyone from the south is a racist, but she sure sounds like she is.

She always came across as very phoney to me. I don't watch her on television unless she's on something that happens to be on, but I've always thought she was putting on an act for the cameras.

[closeupready]

30. There you go. K&R. Really, what a douchebag she is.