Paula Deen Admits to Racial Slurs

[giovanni_hotel]

With all due respect you could say the same about black people...

This statement is beyond dumb.

You could say you have an issue with certain pathologies that seem to afflict the Black community in greater extremes than the general population, but for you to make the idiot comment suggesting Black racism(???) is equal or as great a social ill in the USA to White racism is just stupid.

Blacks are 13% of the population and as a group we don't exert the economic pull or institutional authority that Whites do.

When a White person without a college degree has a greater likelihood of being hired for a job in this country than a Black person with a BA or BS, don't talk shit to me about Blacks becoming more racist.

God what an idiotic thing to say Maddy.
Like you know enough Black people to even make such a braindead comment.

As for 'high minded' Cecil, show me ANYWHERE that Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton used 'uppity nigger' or 'chief monkey' in describing themselves??

You're just absurd. Leave the irony for people who know what it means.

[GroobySteven]

I don't know who Paula Deen is - and didn't read that thread so as yet am unaware of the context.
Horrific yes but should we start censoring this brutality, wouldn't that support what some would want, for it to be forgotten about?

I'll leave it for the membership to decide.

[giovanni_hotel]

Posting that picture was inappropriate.

It didn't advance the discussion or highlight the issue being discussed.
However since the pic was uploaded by a Black member of HA to point out what racism in the SOuth was really about, I guess there was a point.

However the problem I have are comments made after the fact by assholes like Cecil regarding the pic, thinking there's a funny comment that needs to be attached to the photo.

Posting photos like that brings out the coachroaches on this board IMO.

[Prospero]

Jesus... but that is appalling.... and while I tend t agree with TSDVDman seanchai has already made a decision here. I guess it's a question of context.

[Prospero]

This thread is getting out of hand - and Cecil's joke is really very sick indeed. Curb the racism.... everyone.

[Prospero]

For fu's sake cecil... the killing of a human (i.e. a lynching) does not equate to the treatment of someone by the press. It simply does not. A a crass and stupid comparison.

[Cecil Rhodes]

For fu's sake cecil... the killing of a human (i.e. a lynching) does not equate to the treatment of someone by the press. It simply does not. A a crass and stupid comparison.

Do you know what i do for a living ?

[Prospero]

I don't know and i don't care. Your earlier joke was totally out of order.... and so was the remark about lynching,

[Cecil Rhodes]

I don't know and i don't care. Your earlier joke was totally out of order.... and so was the remark about lynching,

I am a Senior Law Enforcement Investigator and have been to 100s of violent crime scenes . You can't even imagine what i've seen . Hell, i was even shot last october . Would you like to know a secret about most of the violent crime scenes that i've been to ?

[Prospero]

Does that matter Cecil? The thing that matters here are your tasteless remarks, your virtual racist jokes.... and it saddens me if you are telling the truth about your work that you can make such tasteless jokes about people dying, about lynching etc.... so curb it or you will face consequences.