Food Network Cans Paula Deen for Being Awful Person

2seaoat wrote:Your making light of racist terms other than the N word diminishes your argument.

I played two years on a basketball team where I was the only white player with 9 black players.   Anybody who does not think racism goes both ways is being silly.   I had to fight tooth and nail to get a damn pass, and it was not based on my playing ability.....it was racial......but the difference was the context.......you completely ignore the context of racism....for years, and the context is power and politics.   It is the Dixiecrats in modern American politics, and that is exactly the argument which is made by that power structure.....we have solved racism......there is equality.......there is racism the other way.......the new folks being treated unfairly are white people.......nope....Paula could be a spokesperson for that movement......when ten fold wasteful subsidies in the farm bill are going to wealthy corporate farms, the cuts are coming to snap.....because black people abuse the same.....there is fraud.....therefore all snap receipients will have benefits cut......yet not a mention of the farm lobby and the fraud on the American people on the agricultural subsidy which is busting our treasury......racial politics are alive and well....and I will call them like I see them....Paula was neutral to me......until I heard her words.......but to equate that this false sense of outrage with the use of the word cracker....well now that I think about.......it is funny to me.

2seaoat wrote:Your making light of racist terms other than the N word diminishes your argument.

I played two years on a basketball team where I was the only white player with 9 black players.   Anybody who does not think racism goes both ways is being silly.   I had to fight tooth and nail to get a damn pass, and it was not based on my playing ability.....it was racial......but the difference was the context.......you completely ignore the context of racism....for years, and the context is power and politics.   It is the Dixiecrats in modern American politics, and that is exactly the argument which is made by that power structure.....we have solved racism......there is equality.......there is racism the other way.......the new folks being treated unfairly are white people.......nope....Paula could be a spokesperson for that movement......when ten fold wasteful subsidies in the farm bill are going to wealthy corporate farms, the cuts are coming to snap.....because black people abuse the same.....there is fraud.....therefore all snap receipients will have benefits cut......yet not a mention of the farm lobby and the fraud on the American people on the agricultural subsidy which is busting our treasury......racial politics are alive and well....and I will call them like I see them....Paula was neutral to me......until I heard her words.......but to equate that this false sense of outrage with the use of the word cracker....well now that I think about.......it is funny to me.

Nekochan wrote:

2seaoat wrote:Your making light of racist terms other than the N word diminishes your argument.

I played two years on a basketball team where I was the only white player with 9 black players.   Anybody who does not think racism goes both ways is being silly.   I had to fight tooth and nail to get a damn pass, and it was not based on my playing ability.....it was racial......but the difference was the context.......you completely ignore the context of racism....for years, and the context is power and politics.   It is the Dixiecrats in modern American politics, and that is exactly the argument which is made by that power structure.....we have solved racism......there is equality.......there is racism the other way.......the new folks being treated unfairly are white people.......nope....Paula could be a spokesperson for that movement......when ten fold wasteful subsidies in the farm bill are going to wealthy corporate farms, the cuts are coming to snap.....because black people abuse the same.....there is fraud.....therefore all snap receipients will have benefits cut......yet not a mention of the farm lobby and the fraud on the American people on the agricultural subsidy which is busting our treasury......racial politics are alive and well....and I will call them like I see them....Paula was neutral to me......until I heard her words.......but to equate that this false sense of outrage with the use of the word cracker....well now that I think about.......it is funny to me.

And as long as it's funny to you, you will not get what I'm talking about.  I am not outraged at the term "cracker".  The outrage is at someone being all smug about themselves while calling someone else a racist (in fact, calling all Deen fans "racist"), and then on another thread using a racist term towards another forum member.   I am sorry, but I do not think that I'm the one who is not getting it.  I DO get it.  You just don't preach one thing while doing the exact opposite and then expect people to take you seriously.

Seaoat won't even admit he used the "N" word so I don't take him seriously.He knows he did and I know he did. He grew up in Alabama.

2seaoat wrote:Seaoat won't even admit he used the "N" word so I don't take him seriously.He knows he did and I know he did. He grew up in Alabama.

Silly girl.....you are making my Sunday one of smiles......do me a favor....go over to greyhound track and play some poker next week.......just take your intuition and go play some poker.......you seem to think you know everybody's hand at the poker table........you are so easy to manipulate.......at a poker table.....they would send a limo to pick you up........

LOL,Seaoat! I have to hand it to you. You try to manipulate but your not always successful, are you? I got your number and I called it.LOL!

2seaoat wrote:But I am pretty sure that he's always had plenty to say.  

Correctomondo.......argumentative as hell......people wanted to hit me......and actually my scoutmaster did deck me.....got right back up and continued my discussion.....he knew he would have to kill me.......hardwired since a child.

Couldn't be borderline tendencies,eh?

2seaoat wrote:Seaoat won't even admit he used the "N" word so I don't take him seriously.He knows he did and I know he did. He grew up in Alabama.

Silly girl.....you are making my Sunday one of smiles......do me a favor....go over to greyhound track and play some poker next week.......just take your intuition and go play some poker.......you seem to think you know everybody's hand at the poker table........you are so easy to manipulate.......at a poker table.....they would send a limo to pick you up........

2seaoat wrote:All that and 2seaoat does not deny using a word in common usage until the 60's.

It's okay 2seaoat, it was a commonly used word.


Not in my mother's home.   She sat us down at a very young age and explained the use of the word by her brother, sister, and father......I never remember my grandmother using the word.......my father never used the word, and certainly I did not use the word........I have only said it repeating what was said to me, or in reference to a geographic reference.......I was an Eagle Scout, and believed what I was taught in church.....De Jure Birmingham prejudice made no sense to me.......the hate I saw when describing why four little girls were blown up.....well it made an impression on a young innocent child.......my mother could have easily had both my brother and I as run of the mill racist.....my brother does use the N word....so she was not entirely successful, but I understood the politics of this issue as a young child.....why are there four bathrooms......why are there two drinking fountains.........one a nice cooler and the other a pipe and bowl piped out of the wall at Kresge store in North Birmingham......I think I am going to call my mother in Arizona and thank her.......she had her faults....but it took courage to do what she did.......She also was the family outcast for being a Republican......when everybody was a democrat........courage is often the little things.

2seaoat wrote:Your use of the word is inappropriate.  It is wrong.  My son in fourth grade was listening to rappers use the N word.   We get a call from his teacher that she heard him use the N word on the playground, and asked us if we approved of that word.   We simply said that he loves music and listens to rap, where the word is used commonly..........sorry the rappers use of the N word or your use of the Q word is inappropriate......they get a pass under the stretched concept of artistic license, but really.....we give you a pass because we like you, and your use of self deprecating humor is one of your endearing qualities, but it is just as wrong as T calling Ike a jew who intentionally killed german POWs, or my son saying the N word on the playground......we make excuses for people we like, but sometimes people need to speak up.....quit the stand up routine with the Q word.....it really is counterproductive at this juncture, and still hurtful to people when used with the intent to hurt.......political correctness or simple gentile civility.....I vote for civility.

2seaoat wrote:I tried the test but my computer froze up......I hope you are not giving us virus links......