Posted on 06/26/2013 12:48:00 PM PDT by ThomasMore
Paula Deen went on "Today" Wednesday morning to tearfully defend herself against allegations she is a racist, as her multimillion dollar food empire teetered on the brink of collapse.
Recently fired by the Food Network, Smithfield Brands and Caesars Entertainment over her admission in a sworn deposition that she had once uttered the N-word, the emotional celebrity chef thanked the companies who have stood with her and lashed out at her critics.
"I is what I is, and I'm not changing," a teary Deen told host Matt Lauer. "If there is anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard that it kills me."
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I’m available for hire!
I’m not from a culture that calls people “nigger,” or anything else related to their race/ethnicity, but lots of other people are, including a lot of the people who are tearing Paula Deen to shreds. Get them supposedly off-mike and they go on with racial and religious slurs that you’d think went out 100 years ago.
I’m also not a 2-year-old, so I refuse to “n-word.” It’s a pathetic absurdity.
I AM SORRY FOR SOME OF THE THINGS I SAID 30 YEARS AGO TOO
(In case anyone of my employers is listening)
Yes, I DO remember that!
Yeah.
And just think all these years I thought it was blasphemy against the Holy spirit. Silly me!
exactly. the left devours it own. i would of has sympathy if she didnt support the side of evil. karma is a bitch. remember O has everything on everybody. be prepared for babylon. no one is safe. all the generals and admirals dropping like flies. people flipping like pan cskes. rubio roberts et al. they are all on a very short rope.
Pretty much sick of her. What do these people expect when they utter such nonsense. Common sense isn’t as common as it should be. So no she’s losing a bunch of endorsements.
As Seinfeld would say: “that’s a shame”...
Sick of who?
This woman is not sorry. When you hear her words, it is obvious she is not issuing any real apology.
Time to start packing a salt shaker in my pocket!
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I do that....cheese flavored salt if I’m at the movies for my popcorn and good old Pickle Salt for other stuff in my purse.
I think she is sincere...
BTW this happen over 30 years ago in those 30 years the word was not even on her radar nor was that kind of mind set ever apart of her demeanor.
Many like to make it sound like it happen just hours ago.
Good grief BTW over the years all the people she has helped along the way mean nothing to some only the big $hake down some how that will make it all better Baloney!
Just like all of our corporations were shaken down to now we are a broken country!
Enough PC Nazi’s get lost!
It is just not in my world. I have never been called a racial slur (religious slur) and I’ve never had friends who used those words -— but I have heard several people including a relative use the Yiddish for black to be derogatory toward blacks - “schvartze.” And I said I was offended.
I like self deprecating jokes about your own kind; they are just funny. But jokes about another group, and insulting words, are not ok.
It’s not about growing a spine. It’s about being considerate. Now, I am female so if you were in the military or other places where humor among men got a bit rough, then power to you. Our worlds are different.
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