Food Network Cans Paula Deen for Being Awful Person

Sal wrote:I'm sure she can get a gig on FAUX News as an expert on race relations or something.

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/21/paula_deen_releases_video_responding_to_allegations_of_racism/


Oh for sure, the Republicans are always the racists. Guess you forgot about KKK member Strom Thurmond of the US Senate. There was a post by someone else who showed that LBJ was a liberal user of the "N" word as well...it was PKR Bum

2seaoat wrote:help me........I do not know all the facts......did she not just suggest a plantation wedding with black servers in white period costume......that in of itself is not a big deal in my mind.......but if it happened recently, and her frequent use of the N word......is it political correctness gone crazy....or is there smoke where there is fire......I do not know or care.......but racism is alive and well in America.....and folks who think we got over it twenty years ago.....I would simply disagree......it rears its ugly head daily........Also her contract is up, and the food channel is choosing not to renew.   If she truely is a changed person......she should work to show that she is fair minded and that the period we grew up in was wrong.....she will be fine, because if she is sincere.....people will see it and she will continue to be successful, and maybe more so......

I don't think there are many people in this country who haven't used the "N" word at some time in their life. There is nothing wrong w/ a wedding that is about an era anymore than a movie that is about an era.People have gone too far w/ claiming racism in every damn thing they can imagine.

2seaoat wrote:People have gone too far w/ claiming racism in every damn thing they can imagine.

I just feel that the politics of this president have reignited racism in the last five years that I do not remember from ten years ago.....it seems to be open and posted as if it does not matter.  My wife had a former student who teaches in a Junior high and calls himself a christian saying that Mrs. Obama looks like a monkey......he has hate filled posts and these exchanges are getting more vehement.....so I personally think it is worse today, than it was just 10 years ago.  We have seen examples on the PNJ and this forum.....no I really do not think it is overstated....if anything it is understated.

Joanimaroni wrote:I think it is absolutely ridiculous what the Food Network channel is doing and the lawsuit against the Deen family is absurd....

Dreamsglore wrote:

2seaoat wrote:help me........I do not know all the facts......did she not just suggest a plantation wedding with black servers in white period costume......that in of itself is not a big deal in my mind.......but if it happened recently, and her frequent use of the N word......is it political correctness gone crazy....or is there smoke where there is fire......I do not know or care.......but racism is alive and well in America.....and folks who think we got over it twenty years ago.....I would simply disagree......it rears its ugly head daily........Also her contract is up, and the food channel is choosing not to renew.   If she truely is a changed person......she should work to show that she is fair minded and that the period we grew up in was wrong.....she will be fine, because if she is sincere.....people will see it and she will continue to be successful, and maybe more so......

I don't think there are many people in this country who haven't used the "N" word at some time in their life. There is nothing wrong w/ a wedding that is about an era anymore than a movie that is about an era.People have gone too far w/ claiming racism in every damn thing they can imagine.

2seaoat wrote:All of this crap is being blown out of proportion due to her celebrity status and deep pockets..

I do not know all the facts.....but planning the wedding as an old south plantation with black servants in white uniforms........what if it is not being blown out of proportion.....what if she is a flaming racist and lied about what BP posted........without all the facts.....do you not think the food channel should make their own decision?  What if this is really being understated?

Joanimaroni wrote:Why? Her medical condition is private and she never made anyone eat the food she made on her TV show.

Floridatexan wrote:

Joanimaroni wrote:Why? Her medical condition is private and she never made anyone eat the food she made on her TV show.

If you've watched her show, you know that she frequently used unhealthy quantities of butter and sugar.  In other words, with her Type 2 diabetes, she probably couldn't eat what she made for the mass audience.  Is that hypocritical?  You tell me.

Floridatexan wrote:

Dreamsglore wrote:

2seaoat wrote:help me........I do not know all the facts......did she not just suggest a plantation wedding with black servers in white period costume......that in of itself is not a big deal in my mind.......but if it happened recently, and her frequent use of the N word......is it political correctness gone crazy....or is there smoke where there is fire......I do not know or care.......but racism is alive and well in America.....and folks who think we got over it twenty years ago.....I would simply disagree......it rears its ugly head daily........Also her contract is up, and the food channel is choosing not to renew.   If she truely is a changed person......she should work to show that she is fair minded and that the period we grew up in was wrong.....she will be fine, because if she is sincere.....people will see it and she will continue to be successful, and maybe more so......

I don't think there are many people in this country who haven't used the "N" word at some time in their life. There is nothing wrong w/ a wedding that is about an era anymore than a movie that is about an era.People have gone too far w/ claiming racism in every damn thing they can imagine.

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you, Dreams.  I attended such a wedding in Mississippi in the 1970's...not a reenactment but the real deal...the "nannies" weren't allowed out on the lawn where the wedding was taking place...they were to stay in the kitchen and manage the food...even though they had helped raise my friend...and no, I don't think she was racist...just grew up in a bubble.  We all grew up in a bubble...now it's time to face the facts...ugly as they might be.  I don't really care whether Paula Deen succeeds from this point on or not.  I always thought she was playing a role...and I don't particularly like that character.  To long for the days of slavery is sick.

I agree that slavery was sick but we're talking about a period wedding just as an enactment of those days would be. They have enactments at the downtown historical society w/ people dressed during those times. Some people may be offended and that's their right but doing a wedding about an era doesn't seem racist to me. I came from Calif.to a peanut farm my in-laws had in Coffee Co.,Al. in the 70's and saw the black maid eating on the porch. My mother-in-law said when I asked about it "black people don't eat w/ white people". The "n"word was thrown around like pecans from their tree. It was indeed a culture shock. My mother had warned me people in the south were a different breed. She was right. Paula Deen was brought up in that culture but it doesn't mean she is the same person she was back then.

Dreamsglore wrote:

Floridatexan wrote:

Dreamsglore wrote:

2seaoat wrote:help me........I do not know all the facts......did she not just suggest a plantation wedding with black servers in white period costume......that in of itself is not a big deal in my mind.......but if it happened recently, and her frequent use of the N word......is it political correctness gone crazy....or is there smoke where there is fire......I do not know or care.......but racism is alive and well in America.....and folks who think we got over it twenty years ago.....I would simply disagree......it rears its ugly head daily........Also her contract is up, and the food channel is choosing not to renew.   If she truely is a changed person......she should work to show that she is fair minded and that the period we grew up in was wrong.....she will be fine, because if she is sincere.....people will see it and she will continue to be successful, and maybe more so......

I don't think there are many people in this country who haven't used the "N" word at some time in their life. There is nothing wrong w/ a wedding that is about an era anymore than a movie that is about an era.People have gone too far w/ claiming racism in every damn thing they can imagine.

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with you, Dreams.  I attended such a wedding in Mississippi in the 1970's...not a reenactment but the real deal...the "nannies" weren't allowed out on the lawn where the wedding was taking place...they were to stay in the kitchen and manage the food...even though they had helped raise my friend...and no, I don't think she was racist...just grew up in a bubble.  We all grew up in a bubble...now it's time to face the facts...ugly as they might be.  I don't really care whether Paula Deen succeeds from this point on or not.  I always thought she was playing a role...and I don't particularly like that character.  To long for the days of slavery is sick.

I agree that slavery was sick but we're talking about a period wedding just as an enactment of those days would be. They have enactments at the downtown historical society w/ people dressed during those times. Some people may be offended and that's their right but doing a wedding about an era doesn't seem racist to me. I came from Calif.to a peanut farm my in-laws had in Coffee Co.,Al. in the 70's and saw the black maid eating on the porch. My mother-in-law said when I asked about it "black people don't eat w/ white people". The "n"word was thrown around like pecans from their tree. It was indeed a culture shock. My mother had warned me people in the south were a different breed. She was right. Paula Deen was brought up in that culture but it doesn't mean she is the same person she was back then.