Agreed. She may be off-color, like miss piggy Betty White, but to destroy a person’s livelyhood over the use of a word, is not right. People hurt, jobs lost, just not fair.
It's pretty obvious to me that Paula Deen probably doesn't have a mean bone in her body. Most everything she says could easily be morphed into Christian or Conservative values yet she thinks she has to reach out to the obambas who will use the hell out of her in a chicago thugbeat.