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I watched the video and couldn't help but feel this was all melodramatic and fake. Then what I really thought was over the top was her exclaming; "I is what I is".. just sounded well, fake and phoney to me.
What I didn't realize is some of the deposition (really amazing transcripts) showed how racist and hostile the work enviroment really was, here are some excerpts from the deposition;
Apparently it was an employee who consequently was jewish and endured jewish epithats from her employers not to mention very blatant sexual harrassment, who finally had enough after years of complaining and filed the lawsuit.
Read the article that talks about the events below, and yes it is from the Wonkette, but they have actually testimony and deposition transcripts / video of Paula Dean and it does bring up some things that the media didn't. I know, I know, Wonkette is a very feminist news blog site, but I read it once in a while as some of their stuff is actually entertaining..I am not turning in my man card. LOL
http://wonkette.com/520923/olympic-...n-today-cries-and-cries-is-very-sorry-for-her
Excerpts; It seems — it is possible — that diabeetus queen Paul Deen is perhaps and maybe not the nice lady she pretends to be on her television program, “Cooking Hot Garbage With Paula Deen.” Lisa Jackson is a woman who worked as a restaurant manager for Deen for so many years, turning around a failing business in such an accomplished manner that Deen’s brother Bubba (because of course) fondly called her his “little Jew girl” (for being so awesome at money). She was danged good at her job, is what we are saying! But Jackson finally had enough with the getting manhandled by Bubba, who was always morning-drunk-on-bourbon-from-a-Styrofoam-cup and having him show her so much porn constantly and always getting told by him about how she should give blowjobs, and getting paid a fraction of what male managers a rank below her were getting paid for far less work and responsibility, and trying without success to shield her black employees from constantly getting called “******s” and “monkeys” and being told they couldn’t use the front door or the white bathroom or work in the front of the restaurant and SO MUCH MORE, and she complained FOR YEARS about all of it and nobody cared, and she finally quit and filed a lawsuit. All props to Lilly Ledbetter, but the Lilly Ledbetter Act that mandates equal pay for women should have probably been called the Paula Deen Act, if you could find a way to fit all her horrible racism into it too.
As for the sexism — in addition to the porn and the sexual harrassment — Jackson got paid less than male managers below her general manager rank, plus they got vacation, bonuses, and retirement, which Jackson didn’t get because duh lady. When she asked for proper compensation, she was told Bubba would never countenance a skirt gettin’ paid like the big boys. And Paula Deen knew about all of it, and Bubba’s her brother, and her gross sons and sons’ friends worked there too and pulled the same shit, like with the calling of the African-American employees “monkeys” and other such hallmarks of a racially transcendent workplace that could in no way be sued for a hostile work environment or basic civil rights violations. Go ahead and read the lawsuit. It’s a corker! Paula Deen for president and stuff.
What I didn't realize is some of the deposition (really amazing transcripts) showed how racist and hostile the work enviroment really was, here are some excerpts from the deposition;
Apparently it was an employee who consequently was jewish and endured jewish epithats from her employers not to mention very blatant sexual harrassment, who finally had enough after years of complaining and filed the lawsuit.
Read the article that talks about the events below, and yes it is from the Wonkette, but they have actually testimony and deposition transcripts / video of Paula Dean and it does bring up some things that the media didn't. I know, I know, Wonkette is a very feminist news blog site, but I read it once in a while as some of their stuff is actually entertaining..I am not turning in my man card. LOL
http://wonkette.com/520923/olympic-...n-today-cries-and-cries-is-very-sorry-for-her
Excerpts; It seems — it is possible — that diabeetus queen Paul Deen is perhaps and maybe not the nice lady she pretends to be on her television program, “Cooking Hot Garbage With Paula Deen.” Lisa Jackson is a woman who worked as a restaurant manager for Deen for so many years, turning around a failing business in such an accomplished manner that Deen’s brother Bubba (because of course) fondly called her his “little Jew girl” (for being so awesome at money). She was danged good at her job, is what we are saying! But Jackson finally had enough with the getting manhandled by Bubba, who was always morning-drunk-on-bourbon-from-a-Styrofoam-cup and having him show her so much porn constantly and always getting told by him about how she should give blowjobs, and getting paid a fraction of what male managers a rank below her were getting paid for far less work and responsibility, and trying without success to shield her black employees from constantly getting called “******s” and “monkeys” and being told they couldn’t use the front door or the white bathroom or work in the front of the restaurant and SO MUCH MORE, and she complained FOR YEARS about all of it and nobody cared, and she finally quit and filed a lawsuit. All props to Lilly Ledbetter, but the Lilly Ledbetter Act that mandates equal pay for women should have probably been called the Paula Deen Act, if you could find a way to fit all her horrible racism into it too.
As for the sexism — in addition to the porn and the sexual harrassment — Jackson got paid less than male managers below her general manager rank, plus they got vacation, bonuses, and retirement, which Jackson didn’t get because duh lady. When she asked for proper compensation, she was told Bubba would never countenance a skirt gettin’ paid like the big boys. And Paula Deen knew about all of it, and Bubba’s her brother, and her gross sons and sons’ friends worked there too and pulled the same shit, like with the calling of the African-American employees “monkeys” and other such hallmarks of a racially transcendent workplace that could in no way be sued for a hostile work environment or basic civil rights violations. Go ahead and read the lawsuit. It’s a corker! Paula Deen for president and stuff.
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