Posted on 07/02/2013 6:20:33 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Lets start with Paula Deen, who admitted to having used the n word 30 years ago. If it had been, lets say, Alec Baldwin instead, the media would have quickly given him a pass, because, after all, hes one of them. Alec is a media guy. Hes smart and talented and thinks what they think about life. Hes also a northerner. He was born on Long Island! And my God, theres 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 shes 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 theyll be waiting for her return, and will reward the network that hires her.
And it wasnt just white folks heading South. The nations 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 nations 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?
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Oh for heaven’s sake, this is utterly ridiculous. I LOVE my Southern roots, and they’re not even mine...my grandparents moved there from Ireland/Newfoundland/Boston many decades ago and I grew up visiting southern Mississippi and Louisiana every Easter vacation. My Boston grandmother ended up managing the Columns Hotel on St. Charles, NOLA.. Really, some of my very best memories are of my days in the South...I could and maybe will write a book.
Grits? Love ‘em. Southern charm? Wish I had more, but I can pull it off when I try. Married a Southerner, utterly in love, wish he’d lived longer. Pralines? Mmmmm. Chawmin’ black waiters? The very best. Doris who took care of my kids for years? What would I have done without her?
On and on...I do understand Paula Deen and do indeed wish her the best. May even go buy one of her cookbooks just to support her. Not that she needs the money, but she deserves a public hug.
The stupid media whores have zero charm, zero heart, zero clue what living a charming life means.
Funniest remark on this thread.
HOWEVER, you are sooooo dead wrong. Tofu smeared with butter? Tofu with a fried egg broken over it? Tofu with bacon?
Serious barfarooney territory.
Yes. I remember the stories and photos of Bull Connor, fire hoses and the dogs. I didn't live in the south at the time and spent most of my formative years in Oklahoma and Texas.
From my childhood, though, I do recall the segregated water fountains and the Jim Crow train cars.
You probably recall, as well, that most Southern cities in the fifties had two downtowns -- the white downtown and the black downtown. Each with their own hotels, department stores, banks and office buildings.
Driving thru the seedy remains of the black downtowns today still recalls what must have been a prosperous and thriving black middle class.
Segregation was bad, to be sure. But was it appreciably worse than the disintegrated families, dystopic culture and governmental dependence that blacks deal with today.
Rebel Yell!
Yes. I remember the stories and photos of Bull Connor, fire hoses and the dogs. I didn't live in the south at the time and spent most of my formative years in Oklahoma and Texas.
Seems to me, I also recall an article about a Woolworth's in Meridian, MS.
From my childhood, though, I do recall the segregated water fountains and the Jim Crow train cars.
You probably recall, as well, that most Southern cities in the fifties had two downtowns -- the white downtown and the black downtown. Each with their own hotels, department stores, banks and office buildings.
Driving thru the seedy remains of the black downtowns today still recalls what must have been a prosperous and thriving black middle class.
Segregation was bad, to be sure. But was it appreciably worse than the disintegrated families, governmental dependence and dystopic culture that blacks deal with today?
Cheese answers any culinary questions.
Bacon is just lagniappe.
There’s a reason I’m fat.
Neither of those fixes NASCAR.
A friend of mine actually came up with that term when I lived in Oklahoma.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I so hope you are visiting some of the news sites out there and posting your story. I worked in the restaurant industry years ago and the ones that provide insurance and dental - man, I can’t really recall one!
One did provide two weeks paid vacation but that too is a rarity. Sounds like you have a great job.
Its always better to have employees wake up and look forward to going to work.
For an added treat, order them with a side of red-eye gravy.
Heaven!
Miss Paula had MRS Michelle Obama on her show and afterwards raved about how much MRS M ate, even during commercials and how much Mrs M LOVED her some fatty foods.
Mrs Michelle was spendin ALL her efforts tryin to reform America’s kid’s menus, promoting eating good organic vegetables for the masses... AND Paula ruined the story...(M really loves her some really really fatty foods and shoves them in during commercials) SO they just waited for the opportunity to SLAM Paula into oblivion.
Paula used to be a rich Dem who loved O...
BYE BYE Miss Paula!
IIRC, Boston was a bastion of parental decorum when courts mandated school bussing was ordered.
Paula Deen = lib
Paula Deen = shocked & bewildered
Michelle Obama got it in for Paula = No more Paula...
Been to Paula’s restaurant in Savannah...great gooey buter cake and that sorta stuff..the BEST actually
Gooey Butter Cake = Paula Deen = my hero(ine)
I compared them to tofu because they taste most like whatever is added to them or what they are cooked with....same as tofu
I’m 7th generation Mississippian
I am like black Agnes...i like them with cheese etc....shrimp...bacon....sausage and gravy....over easy eggs
All southerners don’t like grits
My wife.....Hampton VA and Charleston raised gal.....loves them.....prefers yellow grits from
Dixie Lily
But in a pinch I take them with butter and whatever preserves are handy or ALAGA CANE SYRUP
I grew up at ground zero in all this right precisely as i came of age as it happened all around me in a fairly moderate family and knew many of the famous players in that drama
Your post is most reflective I’ve seen on this topic in a while
I have given up trying to explain even here
Most enjoy the accepted narrative.
It gives them moral superiority free of charge
I can spot a fake southerner talking like they were there from a mile away
The first giveaway is hyperbole about segregation .....” oh yeah they had no niggers allowed signs everywhere” or “ sure I saw nigger don’t let the sun set on your black ass in this town”
OK.....maybe somewhere somebody could find something like that but I sure never saw it.....colored drinking fountain and bathroom and black sections in cafes I did see...no question
And the notion blacks could not own stuff or business or go to schools or college or never vote
BS.....UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND
black precients turned out for new deal slate same as whites
Voting crap started when civil rights workers showed up pushing social lib candidates
White men never prosecuted for crimes against blacks...untrue
White men raping blacks girls pell mell....a blatant lie in league with hillbilly male rape absurd myth
The notion we were simply mean and ugly to noble blacks as a matter of practice is just Hollywood wishful thinking
Many many here are happy ignorant..... and hypocritical
I lived in NYC.....they don’t fool me
All the fears of the segregationists have come to bear
I do not like the outcome and only see worse coming
Blacks in the south under prejudice ironically were nicer and maintained a more productive culture
Not out of fear but rather emulation from association
You cannot explain this from a 40 percent black state to someone in New Hampshire with one percent
That’s the rub....blissful perch
I just drove from Nashville area to Pacific northwest and back to Glacier and Dakotas
Home.
St Louis.....Kansas city......north Platte...Laramie....salt lake....winnemuca.....Medford.....grants pass.....coos bay.....yreka.....Portland.....Klamath....walla walla....Lewiston.....Missoula.... whitefish....kalispel....browning......spearfish.....Pierre....Sioux falls.....back to KC
FROM KC TILL BACK TO KC....over 5500 miles my boys and I counted 11 blacks total in 2 weeks
In my hometown of Jackson MS I could see 11 black folks in the time it takes to rub my eyes
And 4 were Verizon commercial mixed race.....Lennys we call them after Kravitz
B
Its like war or jail or cancer or death of family member
You cant explain it to folks who can’t see it....cause it ain’t there
Concur on the stone ground. I recommend Nora Mills.
http://www.noramill.com/store/index.php?cPath=48
Instant grits should be banned by thinking folks as a culinary abomination.
A little known secret is that modern Japanese rice cookers run on the porridge cycle are *great* for making grits. It takes longer, but you don’t have to be on top of them stirring.
http://www.amazon.com/Zojirushi-NS-LAC05XT-Cooker-Warmer-Stainless/dp/B005FVROW6/ref=pd_sbs_k_2
Finally, it just so happens I had a nice resort banquet meal last night. The filet, instead of being on a bed of mashed potatoes, was on a bed of perfect stone ground grits with a nice mushroom gravy. It worked nicely.
I’m sorry if you got the idea that was written by my self but that is Willie Smith’s story his name is in the header.
But I guess PD treats her employees well.
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