Food Network Gives Paula Deen the Boot

[Atomic Wanderer Chicken]

The Food Network has given Paul Deen the boot after the fallout that she used the "N" word expletive in a deposition. The Food Network says her contract will not be renewed.

 

 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/21/showbiz/paula-deen-racial-slur/index.html?hpt=hp_t1.

[VincentM]

Not surprised...

[DocM]

Insert foot in mouth to the hip and that's what you get.

[Hum]

Some other network will pick her up -- no biggie.

[COKid]

The "N" word? If we can't even say the word, there's no hope for race relations. Listen to any rap music lately? Blacks want it both ways. Whites get crucified if they say it, but blacks glorify it. Sad.

 

(Yes! A warning point! I'll wear it like a badge of honor, mod :))

[vcfan]

they probably weren't going to renew her contract anyways,so this is just fitting for them.

[Hum]

The "N" word? If we can't even say the word, there's no hope for race relations. Listen to any rap music lately? Blacks want it both ways. Whites get crucified if they say it, but blacks glorify it. Sad.

 

(Yes! A warning point! I'll wear it like a badge of honor, mod :))

I regularly see teens around here, calling their blacks friends, the N-word --- apparently it's cool now.

[calimike]

Some other network will pick her up -- no biggie.

She could end up on Live Well Network

http://livewellnetwork.com/index

[clotz2000]

Maybe she can get some contract work for the Butter manufacturers...

[thomastmc]

The "N" word? If we can't even say the word, there's no hope for race relations. Listen to any rap music lately? Blacks want it both ways. Whites get crucified if they say it, but blacks glorify it. Sad.

 

(Yes! A warning point! I'll wear it like a badge of honor, mod :))

 

Except, Paula Deen wasn't using it as an endearing term to her friends. She was using it as a pejorative term to mean what it has always meant, in the racist way that many whites still use it, to describe a race of people as something less than people.

 

I don't think it's a good thing that black people use it, exactly because it makes it seem OK for white people. I still hear it in this part of the country from white people, and not in a "buddy" kind of way. I wouldn't blame a black guy for smacking the ***t out of someone white who said it even in an endearing way around them.

 

By the way, "they use it all the time", is exactly what you hear from a lot of white people using it in a racially pejorative way today and you call them on it.

 

It's a word that should only remain as a lesson of how ignorant and vicious people can be about and towards one another, as with all racial epithets.

 

 

(Begin Tangent) Also, in the "etymology" of the use of the "N" word by blacks, there is no such thing as a difference between "a" and "er". Richard Pryor was one of, if not the first black person to use the term regularly (in the public eye, off the streets, not behind closed doors). The "a" and the "er" are simply pronunciation with different accents. Pryor was saying "er" every time, sometimes you could hear that, most of the time it sounded like "a". With a southern (or southernish) accent, every word that ends with "er" sounds like "a", especially when it's spoken quickly. The whole creation of a difference between "a" and "er" is just silly.

[Hum]

Maybe she can get some contract work for the Butter manufacturers...

 

 

^ Maybe she can do Subway commercials. :laugh:

[Growled Member]

I'm just glad she can cook better than she can talk.

[Hum]

^ She'll invite you over to her house for dinner -- just be sure you're white, hehe. ;)

[LittleNeutrino Veteran]

never did care for her.

[Woelfel]

As a African American, I don't think she should have been fired for using the word...but the fact that she wanted to have a "slave party" as I call it...yea, that kinda reinforces the use of the word. The "slave party" is what was more shocking to me than the use of the N word.

[Growled Member]

^ She'll invite you over to her house for dinner -- just be sure you're white, hehe. ;)

 

I'm gonna bring a black friend with me. :D