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Paula Deen On Her Dream Southern Plantation Wedding
Last month, Food Network chef Paula Deen gave a videotaped deposition as part of a discrimination suit shes facing in which she discussed her desire to have a very southern style wedding for her brother modeled after a restaurant where the whole entire wait staff was middle-aged black men clad in white jackets and black bow ties, according to a transcript of the deposition filed in federal court in Georgia. Deen also admitted to having used the N word and discussed the ways the word could be not said in a mean way.
Deen, her brother Earl Bubba Hiers, her company, and the corporations that operate a pair of restaurants she owns in Savannah, Ga., are being sued by former employee Lisa Jackson. A complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia by Jacksons attorney, Matthew Billips, last November alleged she was subjected to violent, sexist, and racist behavior during five years working for Deens various businesses.
According to the complaint, Jackson began working for Uncle Bubbas Oyster House, a restaurant run by Hiers, in early 2005 and left in August 2010 due to the inappropriate behavior she said she was subjected to in her time there. In the deposition, Deen said she owns half of the corporation that operates Uncle Bubbas Oyster House. Jackson also said she did some other work for Deens company and a restaurant she runs. The complaint alleged racially discriminatory attitudes pervade Uncle Bubbas Oyster House where Jackson claimed African-American employees were required to use separate bathrooms and entrances from white staffers. Jackson also said African-Americans were held to different, more stringent, standards than whites at the restaurant and that Hiers regularly made offensive racial remarks. In the complaint, Jackson is described as a white female. However the complaint noted she has biracial nieces, so derogatory remarks regarding African Americans are even more personally offensive to Ms. Jackson than they would be to another white citizen.
Deen, her brother Earl Bubba Hiers, her company, and the corporations that operate a pair of restaurants she owns in Savannah, Ga., are being sued by former employee Lisa Jackson. A complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia by Jacksons attorney, Matthew Billips, last November alleged she was subjected to violent, sexist, and racist behavior during five years working for Deens various businesses.
According to the complaint, Jackson began working for Uncle Bubbas Oyster House, a restaurant run by Hiers, in early 2005 and left in August 2010 due to the inappropriate behavior she said she was subjected to in her time there. In the deposition, Deen said she owns half of the corporation that operates Uncle Bubbas Oyster House. Jackson also said she did some other work for Deens company and a restaurant she runs. The complaint alleged racially discriminatory attitudes pervade Uncle Bubbas Oyster House where Jackson claimed African-American employees were required to use separate bathrooms and entrances from white staffers. Jackson also said African-Americans were held to different, more stringent, standards than whites at the restaurant and that Hiers regularly made offensive racial remarks. In the complaint, Jackson is described as a white female. However the complaint noted she has biracial nieces, so derogatory remarks regarding African Americans are even more personally offensive to Ms. Jackson than they would be to another white citizen.
Along with the allegations of racism, Jacksons complaint accuses Hiers of making inappropriate sexual comments and forcing her to look at pornography with him. The complaint also said Hiers violently shook employees on multiple occasions and came to work in an almost constant state of intoxication.
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Well, as long as she doesn't "mean" it (Original Post)
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