Poor Paula Dean...
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Orithil
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I turn a blind eye to all racism. Racism isn't my cup of tea and I don't enjoy the company of racists...but being racist isn't a crime and the woman has the right to say any word she wants in her own personal life, it's called Freedom of Speech.
That said the company also has a right to make sure it's profits don't suffer by losing sponsors due to her personal proclivities.
That said the company also has a right to make sure it's profits don't suffer by losing sponsors due to her personal proclivities.
Nutes and Nugs
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What did she say that was so awful?
Orithil
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She's an older Southern woman, the fuck do you think she said?
B166ER420
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I seen you had posted and knew you would have implied some type of racism remark
and you did not dissapoint....LET IT GO!!!!peace
BygonEra
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She didn't even say anything.... She admitted, under oath, that she had "used the N word in the past".... has anyone listened to her accent and realized how old she is?
lol people are way too sensitive.... Daniel Tosh has said some pretty crazy shit but there's nothing he can do that could possibly get him fired, I'm pretty sure...
lol people are way too sensitive.... Daniel Tosh has said some pretty crazy shit but there's nothing he can do that could possibly get him fired, I'm pretty sure...
Nutes and Nugs
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LOL, that's opening a can of worms.
Nutes and Nugs
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Most older southerners black or white don't even think of it as being racist.
People like Buck go crazy when someone lets common talk slip.
dirtyho1968
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I thought her apology was worse...
ClaytonBigsby
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Do you think she'll lose her sponsers:
dirtyho1968
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[video=youtube_share;-TanRD3bsEM]http://youtu.be/-TanRD3bsEM[/video]
edit: Too bad this video got cut short with her speaking and telling her side. She didn't do herself any favors.
edit: Too bad this video got cut short with her speaking and telling her side. She didn't do herself any favors.
Nutes and Nugs
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[video=youtube;XSmjjz71688]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSmjjz71688[/video]
Orithil
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I'm Southern, that's a can of worms I know very well.
Total Head
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normally i would be in the "get over it" camp, but if i were running a brand, and one of the faces of my brand said what she said, i wouldn't want to be stuck in a boat with a hole either.
it's not the remark she made 30 years ago, it's the allegations of things that happened much more recently. the lady suing her says that her co-owner bubba made black employees use the restroom in the back while allowing white employees to use the nice customer bathrooms, called them monkeys, and that they both freely dropped n bombs.
the part that made me raise my eyebrows was this quote here that deen allegedly made to her then caterer for bubba's wedding in 2007:
"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. Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldnt it? But we cant do that because the media would be on me about that."
it's one thing to be an old ignorant racist, but the bit about the "media being on her for that" shows that she knows exactly what she's saying. the lawsuit is full of alleged examples of her and the staff throwing the word around. another one is that bubba supposedly said something like "they should send president obama to the oil spill in the gulf of mexico so he could nigger-rig it."
i'm pretty sure that any black people working for these people were offended frequently, and they would only be hearing the toned down stuff. i'd fire her ass, too.
it's not the remark she made 30 years ago, it's the allegations of things that happened much more recently. the lady suing her says that her co-owner bubba made black employees use the restroom in the back while allowing white employees to use the nice customer bathrooms, called them monkeys, and that they both freely dropped n bombs.
the part that made me raise my eyebrows was this quote here that deen allegedly made to her then caterer for bubba's wedding in 2007:
"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. Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldnt it? But we cant do that because the media would be on me about that."
it's one thing to be an old ignorant racist, but the bit about the "media being on her for that" shows that she knows exactly what she's saying. the lawsuit is full of alleged examples of her and the staff throwing the word around. another one is that bubba supposedly said something like "they should send president obama to the oil spill in the gulf of mexico so he could nigger-rig it."
i'm pretty sure that any black people working for these people were offended frequently, and they would only be hearing the toned down stuff. i'd fire her ass, too.
Steve French
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I remember loving this story when I was a kid about this African kid named Little Black Sambo who outwitted some tigers. He made the fuckers run till they turned to butter, then he spread the shit on his flapjacks and everybody had a grand ole time at the Johnson family cookout. Then I hear this shit is racist? I fucking love flapjacks.
cannawizard
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i'm gonna miss her fried chicken and all butter recipes~ /sigh
Steve French
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I wrote nigga once on here. Came back and it was excised from my post! The censorship in this mafucka! We got the gestapo in here!