The profile of Deen's cook Dora Charles overflows with allegations of racist behavior. Deen allegedly paid black employees less than white ones and used racial slurs.
But it is Deen's idea of Confederate-tinged dinner theater that may be the most unseemly element of the story. Charles tells the Times that she refused Deen's requests to ring a dinner bell in front of her Savannah, Ga. restaurant The Lady and Sons and, in the words of the paper, holler for "people to come and get it."
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The article seems likely to tarnish Deen's already damaged reputation following her admission last month that she had used the N-word. The chef was forced to open up about her use of slurs during a deposition related to allegations of racism and sexual harassment brought against Deen by a former employee, Lisa T. Jackson.
In the wake of Deen's admission, the celebrity chef was dropped by Food Network and dumped by retailers like Walmart and Target and the drug maker Novo Nordisk, with whom she had endorsement deals
Paula Deen Allegedly Asked Black Staffers to Dress Like Aunt Jemima - Yahoo! TV
Conservatives: She isn't racist.
Liberals: Of course she's racist.
Libertarians: You don't have to work for her if she's racist.
Independents (with Conservative lean): This isn't racist because she asked nicely.
Independents (with Liberal lean): You guys kidding right?
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Zyphlin: 6,300 word essay.
I did enjoy Fox News' take on this.
I genuinely did. They basically hammer out what is so wrong with this entire situation. The problem isn't so much her use of racial epitaphs. It's the entire culture which she allowed to exist in her place. Porn at the work place? Racial attacks? Homophobic remarks? If your boss is willing to use racial epitaphs, have plantation styled weddings, dress her workers as Aunt Jemima, that's not something which stops 20 years ago unless a person can show a track record of having changed. Paula Deen just seems to have been doing the same **** for 20 years and hoping nobody caught on.
The Food Network did what any business would and should do with people like this. Let them cater to racists if they want on their own platform, works for Glenn Beck.
It's kind of hard to argue that this is a 'Yankee' thing when the person making the allegations is SOUTHERN.I know both blacks and whites who collect that Aunt Jemima type kitchen stuff. It is more a southern thing than a race thing, but yankees don't seem to get that.
I know both blacks and whites who collect that Aunt Jemima type kitchen stuff. It is more a southern thing than a race thing, but yankees don't seem to get that.
Oh no - my mom sent away when I was a kid and got me an Aunt Jemima cast iron coin bank - does that mean I'm a racist?
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until you liberals make Alec Baldwin pay the same price for his Homophobic violent threats i don't want to hear a freaken dam thing about Paula Deen come out your hypocrite mouth
So I saw this post on the new post thing and wondered what us liberals had done now since I could not remember who Paula Dean was. Turns out this is even stupider than I thought. Liberals have not done anything to Paula Dean(though Jimmy Carter defended her). Her employer did not renew her contract, but they are not "us liberals". Some sponsors bailed on her, but again that is not "us liberals". Mostly I think "us liberals" did the same thing in regards to her after the report on her as before, which is being not interested in her show or products because they are not things that interest us.
So your whole "hypocrite mouth" **** is built on a lie.
We liberals forced the Food Network to fire her and Alec Baldwin, well, his thing hasn't really blown up yet. You remember the black guy from Grey's Anatomy a few years ago? He went on some homophobic rant and was fired. Mel Gibson? Cee-Lo? Roland Martin? Adam Carolla? Tracy Morgan? There's a huge list of celebrities who've gone down for their homophobic rants.
What did they say? I do not follow celebs so I have no idea. Also, isn't what Deen did much more than a rant? If so, they would be kinda different situations.
I was being facetious. Of course we didn't force the Food Network to fire her. The problem with the apologists is that they don't realize that free market environments tend to filter our their racism. Green reigns supreme over black & white.
Oh no - my mom sent away when I was a kid and got me an Aunt Jemima cast iron coin bank - does that mean I'm a racist?
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I know both blacks and whites who collect that Aunt Jemima type kitchen stuff. It is more a southern thing than a race thing, but yankees don't seem to get that.
We liberals forced the Food Network to fire her and Alec Baldwin, well, his thing hasn't really blown up yet. You remember the black guy from Grey's Anatomy a few years ago? He went on some homophobic rant and was fired. Mel Gibson? Cee-Lo? Roland Martin? Adam Carolla? Tracy Morgan? There's a huge list of celebrities who've gone down for their homophobic rants.
I was being facetious. Of course we didn't force the Food Network to fire her. The problem with the apologists is that they don't realize that free market environments tend to filter our their racism. Green reigns supreme over black & white.
Which is funny when you take a macro look at the entire scope of things.
So often many on the right argue we don't need such stringent laws enforcing racial quotas or standards and such onto businesses with the notion that society and the public, by and large, simply won't accept most of those type of things in any kind of sizable way and that the basic pressure of the market and society would make such policies and actions rarely seen REGARDLESS of laws being in place.
And so many on the left argue that you can't trust the free market to do it, that there are too many people that tacitly condone racism or let it go on, and that it wouldn't really cause them enough greif to stop them from doing it so we need the government to keep these laws on the books forever and ever because without it we'll just wash away back into the dredges of horrible racism in the marketplace.
What, like their black employees?
Which is funny when you take a macro look at the entire scope of things.
So often many on the right argue we don't need such stringent laws enforcing racial quotas or standards and such onto businesses with the notion that society and the public, by and large, simply won't accept most of those type of things in any kind of sizable way and that the basic pressure of the market and society would make such policies and actions rarely seen REGARDLESS of laws being in place.
And so many on the left argue that you can't trust the free market to do it, that there are too many people that tacitly condone racism or let it go on, and that it wouldn't really cause them enough greif to stop them from doing it so we need the government to keep these laws on the books forever and ever because without it we'll just wash away back into the dredges of horrible racism in the marketplace.
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