Paula Deen's use of the "N"-Word

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by agzg

I must have missed this (the wedding - I knew about your business). Congrats!

I also missed the wedding, but knew you were engaged! Congratulations and best wishes to both of you!

ETA: LOL at the Kwanzaa seat.

[DrPhil]

Kevin has told Black Americans what we should do, told us that the TransAtlantic Slave Trade ultimately rescued us, and has demanded GC solutions to existing inequalities. My leader Nelson Mandela would be proud. We of the African diaspora can sit in those lovely chairs and go "lalalalallalaalalalalalallaahhhhh...."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHmBr6rlCRo

[Mizeree I2K]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Isn't Mizeree the username that I call IotaGuy? Are you the same IotaGuy who I think you are? You're married to that woman you typed about in the D&R thread? I've been gone a few months but I'm confused as hell.

Same dude.

Originally Posted by DrPhil

*doing a Kwanzaa dance and Kwanzaa call...lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalahhhh!!! *

CTFU! This is some funny ass shit LOL!

Originally Posted by amIblue?

I also missed the wedding, but knew you were engaged! Congratulations and best wishes to both of you!

Thanks.

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Kevin has told Black Americans what we should do, told us that the TransAtlantic Slave Trade ultimately rescued us, and has demanded GC solutions to existing inequalities. My leader Nelson Mandela would be proud. We of the African diaspora can sit in those lovely chairs and go "lalalalallalaalalalalalallaahhhhh...."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHmBr6rlCRo

I'm done fuckn with KKKevin.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Mizeree I2K

Same dude.

I now have jokes for days but I will leave you alone. I wish you well.

Originally Posted by Mizeree I2K

CTFU! This is some funny ass shit LOL!

I only speak Swahili, Shona, Kirundi, and Black English. Thanks to Kevin, I am tired of being an appreciatively assimilated Black American relegated to Swahili birth names, African garb, and Ebonics. I am now unappreciative and say to hell with the Queen's English.

LOL
(Lunga Olihi Lunga)

Originally Posted by Mizeree I2K

I'm done fuckn with KKKevin.

Nah, Kevin is not even remotely KKK material. He has a different opinion rooted in what many would consider prejudices unintentionally conducive to racist ideologies and racist institutions. However, just as I stopped spelling America with a KKK, I do not insult people who engage in these types of honest discussions by spelling their name with a KKK. Kevin can "respectfully kiss my ass" and whatever else I typed to him without the KKK reference.

******

Oh snap, Smithfield!

http://www.today.com/food/paula-deen...ods-6C10423983

This is just like any other circumstance in which people can use liberated voices and purchasing power to speak out.** Everyone doesn't have to agree with the perceived offense or outcome but enough people have to agree and the right (that isn't a typo, not "white") people have to agree.

**It is interesting that quite a few power minority groups around the world eventually speak out against perceived injustices (Jews, LGBT, etc.). Only certain power minority groups are told to relax and to not use their voice and purchasing powers to protest and potentially get money makers shut down. That is one of the reasons why social change is so difficult. The power dominant groups are still the ones who determine whether the concerns and potential for social change are worthwhile and valid (for example, people in this thread saying "talk about Mandela instead" and "this is glitching").

[LXA SE285]

Her magazine could be next to go:

http://www.al.com/entertainment/inde..._magazine.html

[SWTXBelle]

Linguistic Swerve - Should it be "home's" or "Holme's", "homes" or "Holmes"? I found http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=holmes and http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=homes, so it looks like both are contextually correct.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by UVA17

Phil talks, and this is what the rest of us hear:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJyfozezSpI

Well, if you're paying attention and half-way open-minded, you might hear the opinions of someone whose professional activities involve this very area, so who just may know more about the research, the data and the issues involved than you do.

You are, of course, free to disagree with her opinions. But the petulant responses you've provided so far don't add much credibility to your own opinions.

Originally Posted by agzg

I must have missed this (the wedding - I knew about your business). Congrats!

I missed it, too. Congrats, IotaMan, and best wishes to you both.

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Linguistic Swerve - Should it be "home's" or "Holme's", "homes" or "Holmes"? I found http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=holmes and http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=homes, so it looks like both are contextually correct.

Please, let's not open that can of worms again. This thread has enough open cans in it already.

Originally Posted by Tulip86

As a white female from a middle class family born in the eighties I think I will never know oppression the way a lot of minorities have in the past, and a lot of those groups still experience it today. Who am I to decide for another when they get to feel oppressed.

This, except for being a white male born in the 60s. I can try to listen and understand, and I do try to listen and understand, but I know that I simply won't ever experience what many others experience on a daily basis.

As for color-blindness, I gave up on that a long time ago. I can't be color-blind -- I'm not sure anyone truly can be -- and I'm not sure it helps to try to be. I also gave up on thinking of myself as a person without prejudices. I find it more constructive to acknowledge that some prejudices are there even when I don't want them to be, try my best to be aware of them (they can show themselves at the most unexpected times) and try to take power over them rather than let them subtly control me. It's an ongoing process.

[DrPhil]

I will always have a GC Crush on MysticCat. I hope he wasn't GC Stolen while I was away.

This Borderline GC Race War was interesting enough. UVA17 has typed every predictable message board cliche' in the book and is impressed with himself/herself (we've seen much better). Perhaps he/she is really a teenager who is at least one generation younger than some of us in this thread. Only a teenager would be so impressed with his/her attempts to offend older people with message board cliche'. The humor of UVA17 aside, everything he/she has typed actually solidifies this thread topic. I doubt he/she would have wasted the keyboard if I was assumed to be a white person. He/she definitely would not have joked about an "angry Black woman", bitterness over racial issues that he/she finds funny, and the Damon Wayans youtube would not have been used.

PDITY? (Paula Deen Is That You?)

[AZTheta]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I will always have a GC Crush on MysticCat. I hope he wasn't GC Stolen while I was away.

Yes, actually, he was. Wasn't even 24 hours before the vultures moved in.

Too bad, so sad.

[StealthMode]

I saw that name and stopped cold. I thought it might be a joke or some sockpuppetry.

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

Yes, actually, he was. Wasn't even 24 hours before the vultures moved in.

Too bad, so sad.

Out of sight, out of mind, you know.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by AZTheta

Yes, actually, he was. Wasn't even 24 hours before the vultures moved in.

Given that vultures only move in on the dead or dying, I think I'm a little troubled by the implications here.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by StealthMode

I saw that name and stopped cold. I thought it might be a joke or some sockpuppetry.

You missed my congratulations and welcome to Delta post pages ago. It was at the end of some rant. LOL.

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Given that vultures only move in on the dead or dying, I think I'm a little troubled by the implications here.

My GC pals cannot be trusted.

[StealthMode]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Oh yeah, welcome to DST christiangirl. I could not post without saying that. *hug*

Thanks!!! I've got neo fever like a mug.

[agzg]

Originally Posted by StealthMode

Thanks!!! I've got neo fever like a mug.

SOMEONE FINALLY USED THIS GIF MY LIFE IS COMPLETE.