Paula Deen Defends Use of N-Word: I 'Was Born 60 Years Ago'

It was Deen's defense of her use of the word that got her into trouble. She tried to spin it like if you knew why she used it, it wasn't that big a problem.

IMO no White person in this country can ever defend their use of a racial slur.
Even J-LO backed down years ago when she got heat for using the N-word in a lyric.

When you get called on using the N-word and you're a southern WW whose close relatives owned slaves, the ONLY thing you can do is say I'm deeply sorry.

 

Long winded angry rant to this dumb bitch.



My grandfather is white, and in his 80s yet for some reason never has referred to a black person as a Nigger. Age is not an excuse for being an ignorant racist. Also in the 60s my grandfather actually attended black panther meetings, and civil rights demonstrations....His "time period" didn't seem to have an affect on him being ignorant. (Maybe this explains why he tells me that he "hates most people his own age.") My white great grandmother (I honestly wish I wasn't a little kid when she passed so I could of actually asked better questions about the past.) She also did not seem to suffer this level of ignorance in spite of being from a time period way before this bitch.

Honestly some people are just racists, and some people aren't. That is the way its always been, and always will be. She thinks of some people as less then human, and is quite clearly trying to deny it, and doing a poor ass excuse which honestly is insulting to plenty of non ignorant senior citizens much older then she is. I am also sick of people in my generation who also excuse old people by saying "They were born in a different time."

 

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to medullaslashin again.

 

I think he means context and who says it is important because I am sure if a group of blacks started calling a group of whites rednecks in an aggressive manner it would be met with hostility

 

Ding! Ding! Ding! THIS.


Why is everyone now on this ridiculous "Well she said n****r & apologized for it" shit? She didn't apologize for shit. She didn't acknowledge saying or having ignorant racist views. She didn't express any regret for ever saying any ignorant or racist views. She didn't express or emphasize that she no longer holds any ignorant or racist views. But give that bitch a pass because she at least admitted she used the dreaded N-word.............:smt100

 

Hey rappers use it so its all good right lol

 

I actually hadn't seen her first response (I was going off what was written in here), so I looked it up.. (dang, didn't even know it was the National Enquirer who broke the story, either)

Statement release(d) from Paula Deen Enterprises:

*BTW, the link below has the core of her controversial deposition, HP pulled some parts from it. (starts mid page) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...omments-n-word-caught-on-video_n_3467287.html

**In addition, while not in the link, she was also honest and forthcoming with other personal matters in her family(s), including sex, alcohol and drug addiction.

 

He black friend that she got to stand up. She made a joke about how black he is against the board.


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She also mentioned how she only let light skinned blacks and whites do customer service.

 

Redneck is generally considered a pejorative, especially when used by outsiders, in spite of the people at your job.

Wikipedia has it right:

"Redneck is a derogatory slang term used in reference to poor, uneducated white farmers, especially from the southern United States.[1][2] It is similar in meaning to cracker (especially regarding Georgia and Florida), hillbilly (especially regarding Appalachia and the Ozarks),[3] and white trash (but without the last term's suggestions of immorality)"

thefreedictionary.com agrees:

red·neck (rdnk)
n. Offensive Slang
1. Used as a disparaging term for a member of the white rural laboring class, especially in the southern United States.
2. A white person regarded as having a provincial, conservative, often bigoted attitude.

Merriam-webster also describes it as "disparaging":

"1 sometimes disparaging : a white member of the Southern rural laboring class
2 often disparaging : a person whose behavior and opinions are similar to those attributed to rednecks"

If an outsider uses it, it's an insult, just like "treehugger" was intended before environmenalists coopted it.

Another good example of "in-group" vs outgroup usage is ray liotta's use of the words "mick" and "greaseball" in Goodfellas, or my italian high school friend who often refered to some italians as greaseball whereas if an outsider stranger did so it would be wrong.

Gays now have coopted "queer" and even use "fag", but it's offensive when used by others.

Obviously blacks aren't the only ones to use a term for themselves that is offensive when used by outsiders. And the rule doesn't only apply to racial epithets.

It's so simple, I don't understand why people constantly put blacks on blast for it, though you might argue that blacks use it so often and openly that it's almost inviting trouble, which is one reason I personally don't use it just anywhere.

If you're in the booth at the diner with your wife and kids and next booth over someone is talking "nigger nigger nigger," I guess it's okay because black teens call each other that? Obviously not. And in spite of the "you might be a redneck" comedy routine, I wouldn't use redneck in said diner without expecting spit in my food.

 

Okay, now these are real reasons to be against her. Behavior makes it clear.

Got it.

:smt023

I was thinking that everyone put her on blast only because she admitted using the word nigger in private years ago.

 

Exactly. She is ignorant of how her colorism/racism is even wrong. And her "black friend" isn't helping by going along with it.

"He's not upset. Why are you?" As if we all have to have the same opinion on a subject. Black people are not monolithic.

 

She also called all roker 'chocolate face', in January. So yeah....

But mostly people are putting her on blast form the weird, idiotic attempts to apologize.

 

Paula is getting support from Dog the Bounty Hunter.

He commented on her Facebook page.

 

Birds of a feather :smt018

 

Um, WOW! *gasp*

Having only seen the still photo and caption (not the vid)....frankly, "awkward" doesn't EVEN begin to describe it! Did this crazy broad REALLY say 'he's as Black as this blackboard', and 'we can't see you standing against that dark board'...thinking it would lend to her cause of no longer being racist?! :smt107
Is she on drugs??

 

LOL. Paula is sooooo old skool racist.

She won't ever lynch anyone or burn a cross in someone's yard, but she will pat your head and call you 'uncle' or one of those good ol' loyal 'darkies'.:smt085

There's an enlightened White south no doubt, even folks from Paula's generation. But there are those die hards who've lived in that southern-cult bubble their entire lives and are barely aware how much the world has changed.

This is the reason why BM/WW couplings are still considered highly controversial down South and also why the idea of U.S. POTUS who was the progeny of a White mother and a Black African father was beyond offensive who had to be taken down.

 

How this woman built an empire...??

A dumb bitch who got rich.

(I want a fucking refund for my griddle! :?)

 

LOL

LOL.

 

Al Sharpton Speaks Out On Paula Deen: Many 'Have In The Past Said Things We Have Regretted' [UPDATE]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/24/al-sharpton-paul-deen_n_3491440.html

UPDATE: 6/24 4:01 p.m. -- Rev. Al Sharpton's spokeswoman reached out to The Huffington Post and said her client did not defend Paula Deen, but rather made the point that Deen should be judged by the present-day information being litigated in court, and not by something she said 27 years ago. "There is more current information that is being divulged that we might need to be concerned about," she added.

Previously...

Reverend Al Sharpton spoke out on the controversy surrounding Paula Deen, saying she should be held accountable for acts committed now and not those committed 20 years ago. The disgraced celebrity chef is in the midst of a media firestorm following the revelation she admitted to using a racial epithet.

Lisa T. Jackson, a manager at Deen's Savannah, Ga., restaurant, filed a lawsuit against Deen and her brother, Earl “Bubba” Hiers, last year for sexual harassment and racial discrimination. In a May deposition, Deen admitted to using the N-word in the past and to planning a "southern plantation-style wedding" with black servers. Since the testimony surfaced, Deen has been fired by the Food Network, and her deal with QVC is in limbo.

TMZ caught up with Sharpton and asked for his opinion on the debacle.

"A lot of us have in the past said things we have regretted saying years ago," he replied. "I think she has a lawsuit now about activities now whether it was discriminatory. And whether or not she's engaged in things now. It's not about her past. ... She deserves what's fair, but that's based on what she's engaged in now."

"You cannot deal with what is fair or not fair until we see an outcome of the present circumstances she is accused of, not something that happened 20 years ago," he added.

Sharpton isn't the only one who has offered his two cents on the unfolding drama. Deen also received unlikely support from comedian Bill Maher.

"If you're 66 years old, and you were raised in Georgia, and you were a child before the civil rights movement, do you get a bit of a pass?" he asked on his show Friday, adding, "I also think that people shouldn't have to lose their shows and go away when they do something bad. ... It's just a word, it's a wrong word, she's wrong to use it. But do we always have to make people go away?"

Pastor Gregory A. Tyson Sr., an African-American pastor at First Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church in Savannah, also came to Deen's defense. He told local station WTOC the chef is a friend to him and to the black community. Using the N-word, he posits, does not automatically make her a racist.

Deen apologized in three video recordings released in the aftermath of the testimony leak, originally published by the National Enquirer. She begged for forgiveness and insisted she and her family are being misjudged by the press. She will address the public again in a "Today" show appearance Wednesday, after failing to appear for her "Today" interview last Friday.

Fans took to social media to criticize the Food Network for firing Deen so abruptly, and a horde gathered at her Savannah restaurant in a display of support.