zephyrprime
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The name is apparently of German origin: http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/1/Bubba
Derived from the word for brother, "Brüder"
Derived from the word for brother, "Brüder"
I've never liked Paula Dean. Most of my family is from Savannah Georgia and her restaurant has always been overhyped. There are much better places to go. Her restaurant is a glorified Cracker Barrel. Her forced "southern" accent is the biggest turn off. There is a difference between having a southern twang and forcing every vowel like a characacher. Why people ever liked her I will never know.
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 Deens 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 couldnt 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 didnt 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 Bubbas 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. Its a corker! Paula Deen for president and stuff.
Yeah, I'm sure very few public figures don't secretly pine for the good ol' days when slavery was a-ok.This entire thing is absurd. Deen should be applauded for telling the truth if anything. If we held every public figure to the same standard, I'd suspect we'd have very few public figures left...
This entire thing is absurd. Deen should be applauded for telling the truth if anything. If we held every public figure to the same standard, I'd suspect we'd have very few public figures left...
Whatever... if you find her language offensive, then don't do business with her. But because "dat's rayyyciiist" some people would have her lynched to appease their white guilt.
No, that's stupid. Words have history and meaning. Of course you can call anyone you want a ******. That's free speech, no one's legally preventing you from using whatever words you want. But everyone else is allowed to call you a racist shitbag for doing so. That's also free speech. You have equality before the law. You don't have a right to be socially accepted no matter what you do, though, and that sometimes means inequality, sometimes (like here) for good reasons.Doesn't everybody think that if a black person can say it then a white person should be able to say it? Shouldn't we be striving for equality?
Uhh, that's exactly what people are doing. They're pointing out that she's racist and they won't do business with her / buy her book / go to her shitty restaurant and her publisher is dropping her for the same reason. That's all completely legitimate reactions to racism. Literally no one is calling to have her lynched. They're taking exactly the actions you suggest.Whatever... if you find her language offensive, then don't do business with her. But because "dat's rayyyciiist" some people would have her lynched to appease their white guilt.
Yeah, I wasn't talking about legally. I agree that we can say the word legally.No, that's stupid. Words have history and meaning. Of course you can call anyone you want a ******. That's free speech, no one's legally preventing you from using whatever words you want. But everyone else is allowed to call you a racist shitbag for doing so. That's also free speech. You have equality before the law. You don't have a right to be socially accepted no matter what you do, though, and that sometimes means inequality, sometimes (like here) for good reasons.
She may be a racist but saying ****** 30 years ago isn't really good evidence that she is racist.Uhh, that's exactly what people are doing. They're pointing out that she's racist and they won't do business with her / buy her book / go to her shitty restaurant and her publisher is dropping her for the same reason. That's all completely legitimate reactions to racism. Literally no one is calling to have her lynched. They're taking exactly the actions you suggest.
In a completely abstract, logical sense, sure. But the balancing forces here are abstract logic on one hand, and the emotional and political consequences of using the word in the context of 2013 America on the other hand. We're barely a generation from legal, formalized oppression and domestic terrorism aimed at a group of citizens solely because of their skin color, oppression that over the time since the country's founding included countless acts of rape, torture, assault, murder, and voter intimidation.Yeah, I wasn't talking about legally. I agree that we can say the word legally.
I'm talking more about society. If the word isn't socially acceptable for one person to say it but it is for another then that's fucked up. Is there anything a white person can say but a black person can't in our society?
So her telling the story of her grandfather was to garner sympathy?
You're a dumb fuck.
She may be a racist but saying ****** 30 years ago isn't really good evidence that she is racist.
You're assuming that all the accusations are truthful. I have no idea what the actual truth is here. But lets be real, she got into this public shit storm for admitting to using the "n word".That may not be good evidence..but the fact that she was physically present while Bubba verbally abused her black staff with racial slurs and jokes shows that she probably..most likely racist. She never once made a peep about his behavior. She allowed it to continue on multiple occasions. It was done in front of an Organization they were working with that had to speak up about it because she would not. Still, she allowed it to continue....until one of her employees (ironically, not black) reported her and her family for creating a hostile work environment.