Paula Dean

[dleroy1]

As an African American who grow up in Alabama my problem is not that she used the word many years ago it is that she use it a few year ago when her brother was getting married. This is the statement that upset me. "Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around,” Jackson alleges Deen told her. "Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that.

[djohnson43]

As an African American who grow up in Alabama my problem is not that she used the word many years ago it is that she use it a few year ago when her brother was getting married. This is the statement that upset me. "Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around,” Jackson alleges Deen told her. "Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that.

I hadn't heard this one. Like I said earlier I think it just needs to be forgotten. Let sleeping dogs lie. And yes it is ingnorant to use the "n" word but why is it okay for a black to say it to someone else and not a white person. I still stand by what I already said. There is a difference between a black person and a n---er. I think that the ones who walk around with guns to kill, rob, etc and call the other blacks are the more than likely the n's. They are the the ones who are ingorant and think they don't have to do anything, that everything should be handed to them just because of their color. And just one more little tangent: These guys who walk around with their pants down on their hips showing off their underware, do they even know where that was started and what it means?

[cneimsn]

Very Very unfair. I'll bet half the people out there have used that word at sometime in their lifetime!!  This "political correctness" is getting way out of hand!
Whats wrong with everyone these days??? It just seems to be getting worse and worse.  We really need to tone it down a lot !!! Its at a point where everything
anyone says anymore is can either get you fired or sued !!

[dleroy1]

As an African American who grow up in Alabama my problem is not that she used the word many years ago it is that she use it a few year ago when her brother was getting married. This is the statement that upset me. "Well what I would really like is a bunch of little n***ers to wear long-sleeve white shirts, black shorts and black bow ties, you know in the Shirley Temple days, they used to tap dance around,” Jackson alleges Deen told her. "Now, that would be a true Southern wedding wouldn't it? But we can't do that because the media would be on me about that.

I hadn't heard this one. Like I said earlier I think it just needs to be forgotten. Let sleeping dogs lie. And yes it is ingnorant to use the "n" word but why is it okay for a black to say it to someone else and not a white person. I still stand by what I already said. There is a difference between a black person and a n---er. I think that the ones who walk around with guns to kill, rob, etc and call the other blacks are the more than likely the n's. They are the the ones who are ingorant and think they don't have to do anything, that everything should be handed to them just because of their color. And just one more little tangent: These guys who walk around with their pants down on their hips showing off their underware, do they even know where that was started and what it means?

 

In answer to your question why it is ok for black people to say the n word and not  white people . The work *bleep* have a very strong deadly history. My grandmother son was killed and body put  in her yard by the KKK (year 1969). African American or Black do not say *N---er they say *N---ga * two different words. The er is racisim and the ga is you are my brother, you are one of my people. And if you are not part of urban cultre (you can be any race and be part of this). I don;t use the word.

My question is why do African American need to let sleeping dog die and other group of people who was wrong do not have to let sleeping dog die? If you forget your past you will allow it to happen to you again. I feel we should not forget but become stronger from the wrong that was done to us by our country.  

[akee318]

If you read the transcripts about what she actually said, you would realize the press has blown it all out of proportion.

[penguinbuddy91]

I heard she wanted a plantation themed party?

[nmsmith]

loose lips sinks ships.... i'm sure gonna miss some of those marinades and sauces they sold at walmart... smh

[ro901]

I don't know about all this. I've never been a fan of her at all and first there was the diabetes scandal and now this.  Whatever...looks like a conspiracy to dump Paula and I don't think it's really all about one word. Also, I think it could be just a huge diversion technique to keep people from focusing on what's really going on in this country!

[Skandon]

I too feel that she is getting a bad deal.  Who among us has never said something in the past that they have come to regret?  The quote- "When you know better, you do better" is so true.  Paula Dean grew up in the south in a time that this kind of talk unfortunately, was common place.  Times have changed, and I am sure that she changed a long with them.  She now knows better, and would probably never dream of using that language today.  She told the truth under oath, and now she is paying dearly for it.  The next person will deny it to their last breathe.  The sponsors need to give her a break.

[batmobile]

at she apologized... but she is in denial about being racist black people r human beings not n*** im hispanic dont like when ppl say s*** either its wrong and y didnt he shoot her if he held her at gun point and she called him that? and deny saying it again about the plantation party comments?

[Skandon]

I never heard the plantation party comments.  What was that about?  Of course she was wrong to use that kind of language, but I think everyone in their past has said something that they are truly sorry about. 

[bowrunner]

Political correctness is running rampant again but, of course, it's only in one direction.

[BlackSheepNY]

BINGO!, bowrunner, BINGO!!!!

[sammywantsya]

i think it was unfair... people say the N word all the time...