On Saturday, June 29, 2013 4:14:20 PM UTC-5, casa bona wrote:
> On 6/29/2013 1:54 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
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> > I think the larger picture is this. A growing majority of people have just had it with all the strife, bigotry, racism, angst and agendas. Whether she said something 20 years ago or not has become irrelevant. Paula Deen has become the poster child of what most people want do leave behind them.
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> > I feel a bit sad for Paula Deen because it means the collapse of a tidy empire she had built, but I feel a bit better about society in that we seem to be, finally, saying "no" to everything here past actions stand for in our nation.
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> > http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/27/news...html?hpt=hp_t2
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> Before you feel to secure with all this consider, the "n" word is still
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> perfectly fine for rappers and people of a certain coloration or
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> heritage to use.
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> And that is just plain wrong.
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I agree in most contexts. I use the word in a lyric, but the song is
a condemnation of racism (among other things). Using it casually is
crappy.
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> It doesn't need to be de-mystified, it needs to be un-circulated.
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For the most part, I agree.
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> What is happening to Deen now is known as "piling on".
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Her plantation wedding crap is why I'm throwing a shovel full on her.
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--Bryan