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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Paula Deen situation/saga is at the heart of the current state of affairs when it comes to the
GOP.
She speaks dreamily almost yearningly about the days of old.
The days when whiteness was privilege and obeying that privilege was absolute law. This woman as a child beat a black child's blistered hands with a bat/stick, just to see the blisters pop.
On the one hand I can understand her curiosity. What the fuck did she and her ilk know about blisters? That is blisters from hard work.
And yet the black mother who defended her child was sent to jail. Just for defending her poor, blistered child.
Now they see that autonomy dying right before their very eyes.
This is why we are seeing such a huge, massive freak out in that demographic.
Must suck to be them, huh?
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Are you saying that Paula Deen beat someone's hands to see the blisters pop?
HipChick
(25,485 posts)See this thread..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023071208
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I haven't really kept up with this stuff much.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)and since you brought that up (and i was not aware), I still stick with my premise.
There's a lot of Dixiecrats in the south.
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DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)- Nail meet head.
K&R
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)So its natural the Southern Belle, Deen was so involved in it. She wanted all black servers at her sons wedding? Wow! This shows why the restaurant industry still only pays $2 an hour making the "slaves" depend on tips for survival. Tipping is a way of saying "you did a good job boy, here's some pocket change for ya boy"
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)and slave labor wages for servers. Cleaqrly a vestige of our 200 year long slave culture.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)but I think waiters are paid a much better hourly, not that minimum wage is all that great here either, but I hear the States has a horrendously low hourly wage and expect tips to cover a basic wage for the servers.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)I heard that one of the traits of the "ugly American" in Europe is OVER-tipping where tipping isnt required. It is a way of saying to the natives, "I'm a filthy rich American and youre a poor as dirt European, so heres some pocket change chump".
Whisp
(24,096 posts)full medicare for all.
Support President Obama like we supported Tommy Douglas. It does not happen over night.
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Raine
(30,541 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)and wondering what you're talking about?
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CatWoman
(79,302 posts)I see that's has been provided to you a couple times.
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ReRe
(10,597 posts)...as phoney as a three dollar bill? She is the one who has made millions of dollars capitalizing on her "southern-ness." If she's sad, it isn't because she feels remorse over being prejudiced.. She feels remorse because her cash cow just died. Look it, there's nothing lovable about the days of yore in the South.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)She is sorry she got called out in public and the cash cow has died.
malaise
(269,254 posts)Good post
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Even grew up not all that far from where she did and I'm not remotely close to freaking out.
I never wanted control in the first place, it's really just a pain in the tuckus if you're not a control freak.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)I certainly hope no one here is defending this scum.
I don't want to look.
But I see a few that joke about racism like it isn't real or any charge of it has to be false.