Someone Explain This To Me.

[Feathers and Fins]

I have been hearing about Paula Dean is in trouble for saying the ( N ) word. I really do not get the big deal, she is southern and it is still very prevalent in southern speech so I don't find it at all surprising she admits to having said the word. I still hear it all the time and not meant in a mean or defaming way. I was raised around a man that was as black as black can be and taught me a lot about morals and ethics but even more he taught me that it didn't matter if you were black white green or yellow if you worked hard were honest and tried you can do anything in life.

He like my grandfather used the word to describe people of all colors that were just plain trash, I honestly didn't know it was a racial slur until I was probably 13 or 14 and thought of it as a description of just that trashy people. Now it seems if someone says it they ( HAVE TO BE RACIAL ) Have we really gotten so politically correct that vocabulary of a region of the country and ones upbringing now makes them racial? I really don't get it. One of the best movies IMO of all times was Blazing Saddles and its been on lately yet the word is edited and what makes me laugh most about it is RICHARD PRIOR wrote most those lines. Maybe its I judge a person on who they are not the color of their skin or I was raised around hearing it all the time and it doesn't bother me but I just don't get why people put so much concern on a word.

[tho1mas]

PC is out of control.

[Mitch f]

Well F&F, I don't know all the details yet but it seems she said this long ago? Anyway Jesse is investigating. Jesse, the race baiter has said on a hot mic that he wanted to mutilate the president with a knife, wonder why no one is investigating him?

[ollie]

I heard someone say it the other day, "people aren't happy nowadays unless they have been offended". I starting think that is true.

what cracks me up is the big business that have come under fire for their commercials that I just don't see as offending. Even Red Robin came under fire for promoting their veggie burger from the vegetarians! Use to the majority of the people had the say so on what happened in this country, now the minority have control. What happened?

[Greasy B]

Who is Paula Dean?

A nobody.

Who is she in trouble with?

No one important.

Self appointed celebrity's, who create controversy in an attempt add to their own value don't matter in a world outside of television.

[Wayne SW/MO]

Well when a teacher is fired for using negro, what do you expect? There are a lot of words used to describe people that are meant to offend, because the person on the receiving end deserves it. It's hard to get rid of a word that blacks don't like when they use it.

[Feathers and Fins]

Ya Mitch said it a long time ago and then they are trying to fry her for having a " southern plantation event " a wedding or something like that where they had Black Servants and everyone dressed in civil war time attire. I thought to myself "DUH" what else would they have.

[Quillback]

She said the word in the past and admitted to it in a legal document, I'd bet at least 95% of the US population, including African Americans, have used the word at some point in their life.

[Chief Grey Bear]

They are just mad because that word stuck and Honky didn't.

[oneshot]

My Father in Law use to call me French N..... because of my Cajun Ancestory.It was just him.Still married his Daughter even though he didn't like it.

oneshot