Paula Deen Admits to Racial Slurs

[yodajazz]

Well fry my Twinkie, I never heard of Paula Deen 'til she hit the news as a member of the reformed church one time racists. Amen, sister.

In my house, we paid decent bucks for her designer cookware. Apparently she had contracts for his stuff will Walmart, Target and others. More than one of my household watched her Food Network shows regularly, and I saw some parts of them myself.

[runningdownthatdream]

So Cecil's a cop.

Anyone else remember Arnie666?

Yes. He was frustrated by the fact that he only had a flashlight to aid him in suppressing the great unwashed masses of blacks, muslims, et al and showed his frustration by posting stupid crap here. He was entertaining though!

[runningdownthatdream]

My point WAS black people in this country are a lot more socially able to say their opinions about whites than the opposite. For example, if I said anything regarding black people as a whole I'd most certainly be deemed a "racist" amongst other things, but if it's a black person making the remarks against white people that's never even mentioned, and YES, Al Sharpton is completely and OPENLY racist, and should have the same type of articles written about him everytime he says a stupid, racist remark, which is more often than not. And, i'm by no means saying either type of racism is O.K., what I'm saying is if we want to stamp out racism, let's do just that and not create some kind of social rule as to who can be racist and who can't, that's ridiculous. As far as black people not being paid as much or not being able to get the same jobs, etc., I agree with you and I don't think that's right at all, but does that justify racism. No.

Here's the problem: to be an effective racist, you have to have power over those against whom you hate. Given that black people wield little to no power in most parts of the world you should be thankful that all they do is express their anger and frustration with rhetoric instead of reading Fanz Fanon and taking matters into their hands.......literally. Even in the worst of the worst situations - South Africa - they did not rise up en masse and slaughter their oppressors.

You don't just 'stamp out' racism by playing nice - reading these boards should tell you that. You see you're approaching the problem from a position of privilege so your views are skewed in favour of what sounds reasonable from that position but to others who have experienced it firsthand, watched it happen to their parents, grandparents, heard about what happened to great-grandparents, its completely different.

The greatest power the underdog has is righteous indignation so in that regard, Al Sharpton has the right to say whatever the fuck he wants to say. Someday guys like him may not be needed but for now you better believe a lot of people owe him a lot - both black AND white.

[Prospero]

Arnie666 might have been entertaining to you, but his postings were vile and may well have been quite upsetting to any African-American or other ethnic minority members here. He was worse than the late unlamented cecil rhodes.

[trish]

The LATE cecil rhodes? My, my. My condolences to his readers.

[Stavros]

I think Prospero was referring to this Cecil Rhodes...

[trish]

Ah, the man who made diamonds a girl's best friend.

[Prospero]

I meant late in the sense that the site banned him

[hippifried]

Hush my mouth & fry my oats in coal oil grease!

Who cares?

[broncofan]

I think a lot of the accusations of racism against African-Americans go like this. An African-American man is passionate about civil rights and his speech is sometimes vitriolic and not passive enough. Therefore, he hates white people. He must hate white people because he decries institutional racism.

On the other hand, if a black guy says, "white people are the oppressors...they are devils...etc." that IS racism. Unfortunately for those who claim a lot of African-Americans are hardcore racists, this is not very common. I'm not saying it's never happened, but the accusations are more numerous than the offenses.

Racism is made more effective by power. It does not mean that a minority cannot be a racist, just that it is much more difficult to persecute someone from the majority culture.

Anyhow, Paula Deen is not just accused of using racial slurs. She is accused of harassing her workers (subordinates) with racist speech. This makes even more clear the accusation of racism plus power.