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Brilliant_Rock
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IndyLady|1372448234|3473879 said:If you still don't know what happened, you should go back and actually read through the complaint.
We rise when people like Paula Deen stop trying to revisit plantation weddings and stop using racial slurs. We rise when we condemn those people that keep harping on times that have passed. We do not rise over it by ignoring racism and turning a blind eye to it.
If your grandma says, "At least she's not black," that makes her sound pretty racist. Why is it a question of wavelength? There is no question of wavelength. Racism is wrong. Quiet racism, loud racism, violent racism--it is all wrong. Racism isn't an accidental, little human mistake. Its not the time someone tripped over a crack in the pavement. Its intentionally, thoughtfully, destructive. They're not just words. Racism is the reason we had slavery, the reason we had Jim Crow, and the reason we have Paula Deen wishing she might have a plantation wedding. Racism isn't just about words. Its the reason why people of color are more likely to be disadvantaged in everything from education to wages--its time to change that.
Exactly.
I'm actually astonished at the number of people on PS who have responded to the above poll and who think she is being treated unfairly. And a little depressed, if I'm honest.
How anyone can read the deposition, or her autobiography, or watch any of the videos of her own words and think that she's being misunderstood is beyond me.
And, thanks to House Cat and Circe for their posts.