Posted on 07/02/2013 6:20:33 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Let’s start with Paula Deen, who admitted to having used the “n” word — 30 years ago. If it had been, let’s say, Alec Baldwin instead, the media would have quickly given him a pass, because, after all, he’s one of them. Alec is a media guy. He’s smart and talented and thinks what they think about life. He’s also a northerner. He was born on Long Island! And my God, there’s no racism there.
Racism is a disease people catch when they cross the Mason-Dixon line.
Paula is from Georgia, and from that one slip, which she admitted and for which she apologized, was imputed all kinds of guilt. She was guilty of being born Southern, plain and simple. And the punishment she’s facing is so disproportionate to her three-decade-old lapse that it cries for someone in the media to defend her. No one has. No one will.
The Food Network will soon learn that their knee-jerk decision to fire her without any proof of discrimination, any proof of a racist past or present, will backfire. And fans who know she was fired, and canned by sponsors, for being born in the South, and for being proud of it — they’ll be waiting for her return, and will reward the network that hires her.
And it wasn’t just white folks heading South. The nation’s African-American population grew 1.7 million over the past decade — and 75 percent of that growth occurred in the South. The percentage of the nation’s African-American population living in the South hit its highest point in half a century, as more black people moved out of declining cities in the Midwest and Northeast.
If the South is such a racially backward place, Justice Breyer, why are so many African Americans moving here?
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I’d like to know what she did to p!ss off the media?
“Well, I’m a good ol’ Rebel...”
She said Jesse Jackson “forgave” her, and I heard Jimmy Carter threw her some support; but then, they’re pals.
The most racist people I’ve met are all New England leftists. Sure they put on a good show, but when they’re in private conversation they say the most despicable things.
Most Southerners I’ve met talk openly, and joke around with “less than sensitive” racial humor, but probably wouldn’t ever be malicious.
Just my personal experience.
Regular grits are an acquired taste unless you have a half a cow worth of butter in them. CHEESE grits on the other hand, especially with bacon bits, are just wonderful.
Guilty? Hardly.
She said Michelle Obama stuffed her face the whole time she was in the studio, now the Obamaites are out to get her.
Blasphemy. That’s what got her in trouble
Thou shalt not blaspheme the fat assed first lady.
The northeast is much more segregated than the South; we use natural obstacles (rivers) and man-made ones (freeways, railroads) to keep our blacks in welfare reservations.
Then we lecture Southerners about tolerance...
The South has been the symbol for all that is evil in America according to the uber-liberals. I think they hate hearing a Southern accent. Liberals are very big on stereotyping people and who is stereotyped more than Southerners?
Which brings me to this question— is there a Southern owned television network? Are the country music channels owned by Southerners? Even though I live in Massachusetts, I would like to see a more even distribution of American culture. Does everything we see have to come from New York or L.A.?
Ohomo needs many more Paulas to keep up the fiction that this is a cracker nation. Who will be next against the wall?
She said Michelle Obama stuffed her face the whole time she was in the studio, now the Obamaites are out to get her.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2047901/Paula-Deen-Michelle-Obama-ate-guest-Ive-show.html
Frederick Douglas chastised northerners for this 150 years ago; the hypocrisy involved was obvious back then.
She didn’t piss off the media, she pissed off Mrs. Obama. Said she couldn’t stop eating, or some such.
I think you got it right. I think this whole attack was orchestrated to let people know and fear the retribution that will follow and the extent that they will go to. Do you think anyone else will publicly critique His or Her Arrogance?
I grew up in Virginia and I can tell you that yes there was a lot of racism there but it is even worse now and it is not white on black but black on white. I was shocked when I went back there recently and saw how things have devolved. I caused a big stir when I ordered a meal at KFC and said I wanted all white meat. The large woman behind the counter looked like she was going to come over the counter and beat me. You could have heard a pin drop in that place. I was informed in a surly tone that I was supposed to ask for all breast meat, not white meat.
was gettin ready to fire back at you until I read your Georgia comment....sorry you don’t like grits....it is one of my favorite dishes
love plain old grits....ask any Italian they’ll tell you that polenta is terrific....we won’t tell them its just grits
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