Should Dean's life be ruined for saying the N-word 30-40-50 years ago?

[Hyrcanus]

pretty scary world isn't it....? one word and you're dead meat....

better watch your Ps and Qs....

the Left has a very perverse vision of freedom...

its called Capitalism.

nobody has to keep a racist asshole on the job.

 

[tinydancer]

this isn't about the law.

this is about Food Network making a business decision.

Barbara Dean said things that are bad for Food Network's business.

Its called Capitalism.

And they have every right to fire who they want whenever they please.

All some of us are pointing out is that when companies and people start basing their decisions on "something someone said decades ago" I sure as hell hope everyone has never ever uttered a wrong word in their lifetime.

Glass houses you know.

This has set the bar really low for contracts to be able to be broken.

I really didn't look at the backstory here until Gracie posted that doc as I wasn't interested, but having read it, the events are all from between 2005 and 2010, not "decades ago".

Yes those are the allegations.

But I've also just put up her actual testimony under oath just recently where she said quite plainly that she personally had never heard Paula Deen say any racist slurs.

This is what makes this whole situation crazy.

Now here's the letter she wrote just a couple of months before she quit.

Deen’s attorney filed a formal response to the lawsuit, asking for the entire lawsuit to be dismissed and included a letter that Lisa Jackson sent to Deen on May 27, 2010.

The letter could be the smoking gun in the case because Jackson praises Deen and Bubba and boasts about how much she loves working for the first family of Southern cuisine.

The letter outlined Jackson’s proposal to turn Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House into a special event venue for weddings, tours, luncheons and holiday parties.

In it, Jackson gushes, “When I came to work for this company as a person, I felt hopeless.

I needed something, some opportunity that could provide me hope as an individual, as a woman, to make it on my own….I was stuck in an unhappy marriage because I had no other options….

When I started working for Bubba, he gave me an opportunity that allowed me, over time, a freedom I have never experienced.

He allowed me, for once in my life to take care of myself and for once have faith in myself as a person and as a woman to know that I could do it on my own…

Since then, I have been given opportunities that I never thought possible, all because of you and Bubba.”

Jackson resigned just two and a half months after writing the effusive letter according to the lawsuit, because management did nothing about her complaints of sexual harassment and other complaints she had.

Paula Deen Was Praised In Letter By Woman Who?s Now Suing Her | Radar Online[/QUOTE]

Go figure.

 

[Sunshine]

looks like Bubba is the real culprit....

you didn't read the whole complaint.

Paula allowed much of the disciminatory policies.

and she called black people "*******".

She is ALLEGED to have done those things. By a person who wants money and who told Paula if she didn't give her money she would ruin Paula's life. The plaintiff should be incarcerated for extortion. Paula holds the final card. All she has to do is close down her place and Bubba's. If any of her 'loyal employees' want to back this woman up, they can all be out of a job.

 

[Gracie]

Maybe she wrote that letter to get ol Bubba off her back because she planned to leave due to unworkable conditions in dealing with him and his scummy sister?

 

[Sunshine]

And I bought her magazine today at Wal Mart! LOL. They aren't going to throw any of their stock away.

 

[Gracie]

I was feeling bad for poor ol Paula. Now..not so much.

 

[Hyrcanus]

I was feeling bad for poor ol Paula. Now..not so much.

Racist assoles don't deserve sympathy.

 

[Sunshine]

And they have every right to fire who they want whenever they please.

All some of us are pointing out is that when companies and people start basing their decisions on "something someone said decades ago" I sure as hell hope everyone has never ever uttered a wrong word in their lifetime.

Glass houses you know.

This has set the bar really low for contracts to be able to be broken.

I really didn't look at the backstory here until Gracie posted that doc as I wasn't interested, but having read it, the events are all from between 2005 and 2010, not "decades ago".

Yes those are the allegations.

But I've also just put up her actual testimony under oath just recently where she said quite plainly that she personally had never heard Paula Deen say any racist slurs.

This is what makes this whole situation crazy.

Now here's the letter she wrote just a couple of months before she quit.

Deen’s attorney filed a formal response to the lawsuit, asking for the entire lawsuit to be dismissed and included a letter that Lisa Jackson sent to Deen on May 27, 2010.

The letter could be the smoking gun in the case because Jackson praises Deen and Bubba and boasts about how much she loves working for the first family of Southern cuisine.

The letter outlined Jackson’s proposal to turn Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House into a special event venue for weddings, tours, luncheons and holiday parties.

In it, Jackson gushes, “When I came to work for this company as a person, I felt hopeless.

I needed something, some opportunity that could provide me hope as an individual, as a woman, to make it on my own….I was stuck in an unhappy marriage because I had no other options….

When I started working for Bubba, he gave me an opportunity that allowed me, over time, a freedom I have never experienced.

He allowed me, for once in my life to take care of myself and for once have faith in myself as a person and as a woman to know that I could do it on my own…

Since then, I have been given opportunities that I never thought possible, all because of you and Bubba.”

Jackson resigned just two and a half months after writing the effusive letter according to the lawsuit, because management did nothing about her complaints of sexual harassment and other complaints she had.

Paula Deen Was Praised In Letter By Woman Who?s Now Suing Her | Radar Online

Go figure.

They wouldn't buy into her idea for Bubba's. That is why she quit. She was trying to take over the company. They wouldn't let her.

 

[Sunshine]

Maybe she wrote that letter to get ol Bubba off her back because she planned to leave due to unworkable conditions in dealing with him and his scummy sister?

Right. Guilty until proven innocent. I never know what wall you are going to bounce off of.

 

[Gracie]

Well..we will see what comes out in court, won't we? Hopefully not until the zimmerman trial is over. One at a time, please!!

 

[Gracie]

Maybe she wrote that letter to get ol Bubba off her back because she planned to leave due to unworkable conditions in dealing with him and his scummy sister?

Right. Guilty until proven innocent. I never know what wall you are going to bounce off of.

lol!!! Me neither!!

 

[tinydancer]

pretty scary world isn't it....? one word and you're dead meat....

better watch your Ps and Qs....

the Left has a very perverse vision of freedom...

its called Capitalism.

nobody has to keep a racist asshole on the job.

Well Paula Deen isn't a racist. Anyone from that era who says they never ever once used the word ****** is a lying son of a bitch.

Now how about bigots that call people "redneck", "hillbilly" or "cracker"? I think I could start a real movement to remove half of the talking heads at MSNBC.



And I just might do it.

 

[Pogo]

And they have every right to fire who they want whenever they please.

All some of us are pointing out is that when companies and people start basing their decisions on "something someone said decades ago" I sure as hell hope everyone has never ever uttered a wrong word in their lifetime.

Glass houses you know.

This has set the bar really low for contracts to be able to be broken.

I really didn't look at the backstory here until Gracie posted that doc as I wasn't interested, but having read it, the events are all from between 2005 and 2010, not "decades ago".

Yes those are the allegations.

But I've also just put up her actual testimony under oath just recently where she said quite plainly that she personally had never heard Paula Deen say any racist slurs.

This is what makes this whole situation crazy.

Now here's the letter she wrote just a couple of months before she quit.

Deen’s attorney filed a formal response to the lawsuit, asking for the entire lawsuit to be dismissed and included a letter that Lisa Jackson sent to Deen on May 27, 2010.

The letter could be the smoking gun in the case because Jackson praises Deen and Bubba and boasts about how much she loves working for the first family of Southern cuisine.

The letter outlined Jackson’s proposal to turn Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House into a special event venue for weddings, tours, luncheons and holiday parties.

In it, Jackson gushes, “When I came to work for this company as a person, I felt hopeless.

I needed something, some opportunity that could provide me hope as an individual, as a woman, to make it on my own….I was stuck in an unhappy marriage because I had no other options….

When I started working for Bubba, he gave me an opportunity that allowed me, over time, a freedom I have never experienced.

He allowed me, for once in my life to take care of myself and for once have faith in myself as a person and as a woman to know that I could do it on my own…

Since then, I have been given opportunities that I never thought possible, all because of you and Bubba.”

Jackson resigned just two and a half months after writing the effusive letter according to the lawsuit, because management did nothing about her complaints of sexual harassment and other complaints she had.

Paula Deen Was Praised In Letter By Woman Who?s Now Suing Her | Radar Online

Go figure.

That impresses you? Seriously??

She's still employed by the company at the time. What's she gonna do, write a scathing exposé? It's called the "I love my job" spin. And it's a letter to Paula Deen, not to the public.

My god you're impressionable.

 

[tinydancer]

I really didn't look at the backstory here until Gracie posted that doc as I wasn't interested, but having read it, the events are all from between 2005 and 2010, not "decades ago".

Yes those are the allegations.

But I've also just put up her actual testimony under oath just recently where she said quite plainly that she personally had never heard Paula Deen say any racist slurs.

This is what makes this whole situation crazy.

Now here's the letter she wrote just a couple of months before she quit.

Deen’s attorney filed a formal response to the lawsuit, asking for the entire lawsuit to be dismissed and included a letter that Lisa Jackson sent to Deen on May 27, 2010.

The letter could be the smoking gun in the case because Jackson praises Deen and Bubba and boasts about how much she loves working for the first family of Southern cuisine.

The letter outlined Jackson’s proposal to turn Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House into a special event venue for weddings, tours, luncheons and holiday parties.

In it, Jackson gushes, “When I came to work for this company as a person, I felt hopeless.

I needed something, some opportunity that could provide me hope as an individual, as a woman, to make it on my own….I was stuck in an unhappy marriage because I had no other options….

When I started working for Bubba, he gave me an opportunity that allowed me, over time, a freedom I have never experienced.

He allowed me, for once in my life to take care of myself and for once have faith in myself as a person and as a woman to know that I could do it on my own…

Since then, I have been given opportunities that I never thought possible, all because of you and Bubba.”

Jackson resigned just two and a half months after writing the effusive letter according to the lawsuit, because management did nothing about her complaints of sexual harassment and other complaints she had.

Paula Deen Was Praised In Letter By Woman Who?s Now Suing Her | Radar Online

Go figure.

They wouldn't buy into her idea for Bubba's. That is why she quit. She was trying to take over the company. They wouldn't let her.

Agreed.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

pretty scary world isn't it....? one word and you're dead meat....

better watch your Ps and Qs....

the Left has a very perverse vision of freedom...

its called Capitalism.

nobody has to keep a racist asshole on the job.

yeah....Capitalists freaked out by the whole PC black racist thing pushed by the Left...

do you think they would have reacted the same way if she had admitted to calling someone a 'wop'.....?

 

[Gracie]

I don't think PD is a deliberate racist...if there is such a term. I think she's just a dumb ass for not being more careful in the public eye. And I thnk she fucked up not controlling her dumb ass brother for the porn, the sexual harassment, not listening to her employee(s), etc.
She is a dumb ass, period. But she KNEW what the fallout would have been since she admitted if the media got hold of her wedding idea all hell would break loose.

 

[Pogo]

I really didn't look at the backstory here until Gracie posted that doc as I wasn't interested, but having read it, the events are all from between 2005 and 2010, not "decades ago".

Yes those are the allegations.

But I've also just put up her actual testimony under oath just recently where she said quite plainly that she personally had never heard Paula Deen say any racist slurs.

This is what makes this whole situation crazy.

Now here's the letter she wrote just a couple of months before she quit.

Deen’s attorney filed a formal response to the lawsuit, asking for the entire lawsuit to be dismissed and included a letter that Lisa Jackson sent to Deen on May 27, 2010.

The letter could be the smoking gun in the case because Jackson praises Deen and Bubba and boasts about how much she loves working for the first family of Southern cuisine.

The letter outlined Jackson’s proposal to turn Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House into a special event venue for weddings, tours, luncheons and holiday parties.

In it, Jackson gushes, “When I came to work for this company as a person, I felt hopeless.

I needed something, some opportunity that could provide me hope as an individual, as a woman, to make it on my own….I was stuck in an unhappy marriage because I had no other options….

When I started working for Bubba, he gave me an opportunity that allowed me, over time, a freedom I have never experienced.

He allowed me, for once in my life to take care of myself and for once have faith in myself as a person and as a woman to know that I could do it on my own…

Since then, I have been given opportunities that I never thought possible, all because of you and Bubba.”

Jackson resigned just two and a half months after writing the effusive letter according to the lawsuit, because management did nothing about her complaints of sexual harassment and other complaints she had.

Paula Deen Was Praised In Letter By Woman Who?s Now Suing Her | Radar Online

Go figure.

They wouldn't buy into her idea for Bubba's. That is why she quit. She was trying to take over the company. They wouldn't let her.

Pffft.

Don't take on any conspiracy-theory-writer jobs. Needs work. A lot.

For one thing, according to the complaint, there are witnesses to all this. Plenty of 'em.
For another, where would Jackson get the power or position to "take over the company"?

 

[Gracie]

Oh my. The one bringing the lawsuit is guity until proven innocent in her accusations. Gotcha. Um hm. Noted.

Now...which wall was that one?

 

[Sunshine]

Oh my. The one bringing the lawsuit is guity until proven innocent in her accusations. Gotcha. Um hm. Noted.

Now...which wall was that one?

No one has accused her of anything. She is the accuser.

 

[Sunshine]

Yes those are the allegations.

But I've also just put up her actual testimony under oath just recently where she said quite plainly that she personally had never heard Paula Deen say any racist slurs.

This is what makes this whole situation crazy.

Now here's the letter she wrote just a couple of months before she quit.

Deen’s attorney filed a formal response to the lawsuit, asking for the entire lawsuit to be dismissed and included a letter that Lisa Jackson sent to Deen on May 27, 2010.

The letter could be the smoking gun in the case because Jackson praises Deen and Bubba and boasts about how much she loves working for the first family of Southern cuisine.

The letter outlined Jackson’s proposal to turn Uncle Bubba’s Oyster House into a special event venue for weddings, tours, luncheons and holiday parties.

In it, Jackson gushes, “When I came to work for this company as a person, I felt hopeless.

I needed something, some opportunity that could provide me hope as an individual, as a woman, to make it on my own….I was stuck in an unhappy marriage because I had no other options….

When I started working for Bubba, he gave me an opportunity that allowed me, over time, a freedom I have never experienced.

He allowed me, for once in my life to take care of myself and for once have faith in myself as a person and as a woman to know that I could do it on my own…

Since then, I have been given opportunities that I never thought possible, all because of you and Bubba.”

Jackson resigned just two and a half months after writing the effusive letter according to the lawsuit, because management did nothing about her complaints of sexual harassment and other complaints she had.

Paula Deen Was Praised In Letter By Woman Who?s Now Suing Her | Radar Online

Go figure.

They wouldn't buy into her idea for Bubba's. That is why she quit. She was trying to take over the company. They wouldn't let her.

Pffft.

Don't take on any conspiracy-theory-writer jobs. Needs work. A lot.

For one thing, according to the complaint, there are witnesses to all this. Plenty of 'em.
For another, where would Jackson get the power or position to "take over the company"?

Yeah, I'm waiting with bated breath to see what those 'witnesses, plenty of 'em' have to say when they are out of a job.