zorro
The n word is used by far more blacks these days than whites - hispanics . She used the word describing a black man that put a gun to her head during a bank robbery while she worked at a bank. Is that worth losing a career ? No . My guess she will make a huge comeback. The people that cry discrimination probably are not the type to watch foodnetwork channel anyway. I just don't understand the new young black culture these days. If they cry about it being so bad , why is it used so often by them describing themselves and other blacks ? Cant they find a better word to describe themselves than the n word ? Paula Deen owes nobody an apology !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Makes me want to go out and buy a cookbook.. A black preacher can say GD America and nothing happens.
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jhharlan
What she said was no different from what I've heard from others. I always cringe when I hear the "N" word but what can I do but express myself? She didn't deserve to be fired, she's just in the spotlight...........
| 10 years ago. Rating: 9 | |
Ducky
Her style of cooking is fat, sugar, salt and more fat, so I'm not a fan of hers at all. However, she talks like a lot of blacks that I've heard who call EACH OTHER the "n" word. If any group of people is looking to be respected, they need to start from the inside of their group and work their way out! Why be insulted if anyone refers to you in the same language that you, yourself, seem quite proud to use. If I don't want to be called "stupid", I would never call myself "stupid" in a conversation. Raise the bar and earn respect!!
| 10 years ago. Rating: 8 | |
Bob/PKB
This will probably be deleted, suspended, warned, but it sounds like Paula called a spade a spade. There are disparaging names for every ethnicity, and when you are referring to a gun-toting, law-breaking bank robber, I don't care WHAT you call him ethnically. Her mistake, of course, was talking about it in the first place.
As an Armenian, I hear all kinds of nasty comments about my ethnicity, and have even been told that legislation was introduced a long time ago to have Armenians declared NOT Caucasian. It didn't pass, but the "stigma" remained. Wonder what race we would have been? What would our disparaging name have been?
Ask me if I care. People should be "evaluated" on an individual basis, not en masse.
| 10 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
Vinny
I'm neither a redneck or a racist but i think that the old adage applies here. "Stick and stones make break my bones but names will never hurt me.." Personally I think its hypocritical when the worst of the racists are those that complain about everyone else being racist. It's not hard to see this. Blacks use the N word constantly, they also use anti white smears as well. Some will see my remark as a racist remark but that is because you are conditioned to think that. This is your problem because you are also a hypocrite. Because this woman specializes in southern cooking, this automatically ranks her as 'redneck' and apparently this is ok to call her a redneck.. WHAT GIVES HERE?? do you see how hypocritical this is?? Why is it ok to stereotype one person but not another? What gives the right to say-- She's a REDNeck for saying the N word. Isn't the term 'redneck' a slander? A racist remark?? Of course it is... But this is fine, whites can take it. This crap needs to go away. The food channel IMO is wrong, they are pandering to the hypocrites which makes them equally at fault. Get over this being offended by what we are, I am a dago, so what??? I am white-trash, a honky, a Cracker, A tea-bagger, etc.. These names and others pinpointing whites are perfectly ok for the media-- Think not? Listen to MSNBC for a half hour, I guarantee you will hear at least one of these slurs. Especially when listening to Al Sharpton. The biggest racist on TV today, and he has his own show elevating racism. But that's ok... (BS!)
| 10 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
People will be people, when the g'ment/media pushes how we talk, when we eat, what we wear and what we carry our groceries in, plus what we call each other etc, its like we are all employees of the system. as for Paula Deen dismissal?? If this was a liberal talk show hoast, I will guarantee you that it would have been overlooked. It's a leftist attack on the right, its politics as usual. I think she apologized, and that's it. dismissing her? I think this will hurt the food network as she was a very prominent figure to their income. As I am trained, I must accept her as I must accept everyone else's traits. It's the law.. Unless you happen to be a redneck a redneck then your traits are offensive to everyone. Including what you eat.
As for your disagreement, all I can say is ask some black people. I've asked and that was the answer I got.
I have never in my six decades plus met a person who comes close to the cartoonish people who monopolize our reality television shows.
itsmee
She’ll make lots of money off this...a new cook book, a cook book for diabetics, more public appearances. The people who like her work will stand by her and support her. The people who don’t like her buttery recipes will just go on their way same as usual. She’ll just make more $$. I am not a fan.
| 10 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
mycatsmom
Paula said that was some time ago. And our society is more educated now in those racial matters.She doesn't talk like that now. And as one blogger here said, They ( black people ) called eachother by the N word. When Joe, and I went to our friends---- a black couples house in Detroit ( and they came to our house too ) - - - -our friend, pointed to his trashy next door neighbors and said to Joe " They're just ni----ers " When a black man here in my town had his daugher marry a white man, he said, " Well, he better learn to talk ni----er ! " It's just a colloquiloism in some parts. This town is a lower income area. No, I'm not condoning it, but you have to look at the whole picture. I don't think they should crucify Paula Dean anymore than they should any other average man or woman on the street. She said she doesn't talk like that anymore,!
| 10 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
Clonge
I think she got a big "black eye" pea from this. Not only did she make remarks, but I heard about her wanting to throw a big party, where the servers were to be dressed as slaves. I also heard that she's worth $17 million.
| 10 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
