Paula Deen made a mistake years ago by supposedly calling someone a NIGGER, who was robbing a bank where she worked. Forty years ago everyone in the South called black people Nigger. I understand the insensitivity of it all, and the suffering it might have caused, and that Mr.Obama is a black man, but hey, it’s time to get over it.
Paula Deen is a famous hard working WHITE WOMAN, who made her name by cooking the greasiest and fat laden food in the United States that everyone loves. She has over 1200 restaurants and a successful business worth a billion or more dollars and has a strong policy of hiring minority workers. I don’t think she is a bigot,, based solely on some of the statements made by a few Black Employees of the Month from her Lady and Sons Restaurant, despite the fact that one of her former managers is sueing her for 1.2 million dollars, which is why this entire accusation of racism came to the attention of the racist left wing media. Several recent televised statements by Black individuals who know and like Paula Deen spoke out in support of her.
People forget that the entire segregated South was forced to desegregate 45 years ago. Everyone of color was discrimated against then and it was legal to do so.
In 1971 two black friends, visited me at my college on a weekend pass from their Navy base. One night as we walked down Main Street of the small town we were attacked by five White guys simply because my friends were black. We got hurt but laid a lot of hurt on the guys who attacked us. We cursed them with every name in the book and used every finger, fist and foot to fight them off us. My two friends and I must of hit harder than we got hit, because we had four of the BASTARDS on the ground and the fifth guy running like a scared, wounded, dog down the street. As the three of us stood over the four as they laid curled up on the ground in pain, we continued to kick the crap out of them as they kept saying “NIGGERS! FUCKING NIGGERS! FUCKING NIGGER LOVER!” We all looked at each other and began to laugh with blood flowing out of our mouths and noses as I said “These fucking guys are too stupid to shut the fuck up!” R kicked one in the head and B and I kicked the other three until they shut up. Then we left them there and ran to our car a block away and took off. No charges were filed against us,though I was questioned the next day by the town police chief. One of the WHITE GUYS was the town mayor’s son. He was the one who ran off.
I don’t know how we won the fight that night. We were all pretty beat up, but we were so damned angry and scared of getting killed, that our adrenaline overwhelmed our fear and we fought with everything we had. We left all four of them on the ground holding their ribs and balls, but they deserved it, and it was self defense on our part. We patched ourselves up when we got into the car. We were sore and silent until I asked,”What’s with assholes like that? Does this kind of shit happen to you guys often?” B laughed and lit a Blunt and said,”Yeah, it happens sometimes, but this was a bad one. If I had my gun I would have shot them.” I said “If I had one I would have too.” R laughed and said,”Man those guy just wouldn’t shut the fuck up! They wanted to get kicked. What is it with assholes like that? They got so much hate in them they would rather get killed than shut the fuck up!” I laughed and took a hit of the blunt through my swollen lips and said,”Some people are too stupid to live.” We all agreed to that and smoked the rest of the blunt and finished a bottle of Boones Farm Apple wine, until we felt no guilt or pain, as we drove out of town and along the coast road near the ocean.
Most people change their minds and attitudes throughout their lives I know I have. No one can be as successful as Paula Deen without being a good business woman and a great chef and well regarded by those who work for her. I think she was wrong to make the apology, but for herself being an honest person, she felt it was the right thing to do. Maybe she is very sorry and ashamed for having called someone a Nigger, however only she and the other person know what context she said it in and why. I would never apologize for kicking and hitting the guys, who called my friends niggers and me a nigger lover but, they physically and verbally assaulted us. I feel they got what they deserved and I know my friends felt the same way, and I’m sure if we had guns we would have shot them in self defense, because if they had guns they would have killed us out of hatred. That is the way racism is. It’s a form of insanity, that some people never get cured from, not just in the white race but in all races against other races or religions. It’s simply insanity.
I think Paula Deen is a good lady. I don’t believe she should be overly criticized for a verbal mistake she made many years ago in a different time and culture. I’ve made many verbal mistakes but I’ve either edited them out of my writings or left them in on purpose. I take Paula Deen for her word, that she is sorry for what she said, and I wish her the best. Only a critical crazy few, fueled by their own racial hatred and insanity for Southern White Women and Successful White Women would flame the age old game of racial name calling. Paula made the mistake of saying she had used the word Nigger in her life. Her honesty under oath was her big mistake. Few if any people tell the truth in depositions or under oath if it might indict them of a wrong doing. That is why this country’s constitution has the 5th Amendment. Paula should have just ignored the attorney’s question or pleaded the 5th. By her admitting she made a mistake, now threatens her entire empire and life’s work and reputation. As far as I’m concerned Paula should remain on Food Channel.
The idiots who are against her I’m sure never watch her show or the Food Channel. They are more than likely devout vegans, who eat raw alfalfa spouts, organic plain yogurt and organic wheat bread every day. The thought of Southern Fried Chicken or Southern Style vegetables is an abomination to them, and they are determined, that Paula Deen should be destroyed for cooking meat, and cooking raw vegetables into something that tastes good.
L.A. Steel
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