Category: Racist

Prejudice, Racist, What she said

Food Network Fired Paula Deen

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Paula Deen Apology

Her southern cooking made her famous, now her racist comments just might ruin her career.

Celebrity chef Paula Deen is reeling from the backlash to her admission that she routinely calls black people “niggers.” In a video released by her camp today, Deen struggles to apologize in the midst of the embarrassment of being exposed.

Deen, 66, made the controversial admission in a videotaped deposition for a $1.2 million lawsuit brought by the former general manager of her popular Savannah, GA restaurant.

She smiled as she fondly recalled wanting to create a slavery-themed wedding where the black wait staff were dressed as slaves in an antebellum mansion down south.

Deen said she got the idea for the slave wedding from a southern restaurant she visited with her husband.

“The whole entire waiter staff was middle-aged black men, and they had on beautiful white jackets with a black bow tie,” she said.

Deen added: “I mean, it was really impressive. That restaurant represented a certain era in America… after the Civil War, during the Civil War, before the Civil War. It was not only black men, it was black women. I would say they were slaves.”

Do you forgive her for being what she is from birth?

Controversy, Discrimination, Just a thought, Magazines, Prejudice, Racist, What she said

Is It Okay To Put White Women On The Covers Of Black Magazines?

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That’s essentially the question that Jada Pinkett-Smith posed to her Facebook friends recently.

There is a question I want to ask today. I’m asking this question in the spirit  of thinking outside of the box in order to open doors to new possibilities.  These possibilities may be realistic or unrealistic. I also want to make it  clear that there is no finger-pointing here. I pose this question with the hope  that it opens a discussion about how we can build a community for women based  upon us all taking a deeper interest in one another. An interest where skin  color, culture, and social class does not create barriers in sharing the  commonality of being… women.

With love and respect to all parties involved, my question is this…if we ask our  white sisters, who tend to be the guardians of the covers of mainstream  magazines, to consider women of color to grace these covers, should we not offer  the same consideration to white women to grace our covers? Should women extend  their power to other women simply because they are women? To my women of color,  I am clear we must have something of our own, but is it possible to share in the  spirit in which we ask our white sisters to share with us? I don’t know the  answer and would love to hear your thoughts.

J

What do you all think? Should white women grace the cover of African-American magazines such as, Essence, Ebony and Jet? Sound off and have a great weekend!

Delta Airlines, Law and order, News, Prejudice, Profiling, Racist, What he said

Inebriated Man Who Slapped Biracial Baby On Flight was Fired!!

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A man accused of slapping a crying 2-year-old baby on an Atlanta-bound Delta flight has been fired from his job, CNN.com reports.

Joe Rickey Hundley of Hayden, Idaho, was sitting across the aisle from Jessica Bennett, 33, of Minnesota, when he became belligerent toward Bennett whose 19-month-old son was crying.

The Delta Airlines flight was just minutes from landing at Hartsfield airport on Feb. 8, when the incident occurred.

Bennett said Hundley reeked of alcohol and was verbally abusive toward her when she was unable to calm her son who was crying from the change in cabin pressure.

Hundley allegedly told Bennett to “Shut that nigger baby up,” according to an FBI affidavit obtained by CNN.

Jessica-Bennett-400x420Bennett told ABC News that Hundley was so drunk that he “fell onto my face and his mouth moved over to my ear and he said it directly in my ear.”

Bennett said that’s when Hundley slapped the boy’s face, which made the toddler wail even louder.

Bennett’s son Jonah, who is biracial, suffered a scratch under his right eye. She said Jonah was “traumatized” by the incident.

The incident sparked outrage on both sides of the pond Friday. Bennett, pictured above with her husband and below with Jonah, fielded calls for interviews from all over the world.

Hundley denied slapping the child or making racial slurs, after he was detained when the plane landed. He said he was on his way to Atlanta to be with a family member who was diagnosed with cancer. He said he had only one drink on the plane.

AGC Aerospace & Defense, where Hundley was employed, issued a statement on Sunday:

“Reports of the recent behavior of one of our business unit executives while on personal travel are offensive and disturbing,” said a statement from AGC Aerospace & Defense. “We have taken this matter very seriously and worked diligently to examine it since learning of the matter on Friday afternoon.

“As of Sunday, the executive is no longer employed with the company.”

Controversy, Discrimination, Drama, Education/Schools, Election 2012, Politics, Prejudice, President Obama, Protest/Boycott, Racist

Mississippi Still Racist in 2012!

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About 600 ‘Ole Miss’ students gathered Wednesday for the “We Are One Mississippi” counter-protest. Racial slurs were used when about 400 students gathered to protest President Obama’s re-election Tuesday night. The Tuesday night protest grew to about 400 students after Obama was re-elected.

Some shouted, “The South will rise again” during the protest, eyewitnesses and university police officials told The Clarion-Ledger. Others used racial slurs. An Obama campaign sign was also burned.

University of Mississippi students held a candlelight march to protest a spontaneous anti-Obama demonstration on Election Night that turned ugly when some students shouted racial slurs.

Ole Miss is still grappling with its legacy as the setting of racial riots in 1962 after James H. Meredith was enrolled as the school’s first black student. Two people were killed in the violent protests, which forced President John F. Kennedy to send in federal troops.

“It just makes me angry that we’re celebrating 50 years of integration yet people decided to be stupid last night and throw a fit over the election,” student Jordan Price told WREG.

“There’s no place for something like this in our school,” student Mackenzie Widder said.

School and police officials told The Clarion-Ledger that some reports, including those describing the demonstration as a “riot,” were exaggerated.

Dean of Students Sparky Reardon said: “There were tens of thousands of other Ole Miss students who were studying or working for campus media or attending election watch parties. They were busy doing what Ole Miss does best”

 The school is working on an appropriate response to the incident.

All of this took place because President Barack Obama was re-elected for a second term? What did they do four years ago when he was elected?

Controversy, Politics, Prejudice, President Obama, Racist

Obama Toilet Paper Offensive, 24 Hours before Election Day

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Hello Ceo Readers, I pray everyone is safe and doing well after last week’s storm. Like most of you, our power was down and we had limited access to all of our online sources and internet services; but slowly and surely the recovery efforts are progressing.

With election day just 24 hours away, administrators in a South Florida firehouse found toilet paper with President Barack Obama’s face on it (as pictured above).

Some thought the prank paper at the Pompano Beach Fire Station should just be taken as a joke, but this line of thinking is not only pathetic but disrespectful, petty, low down and hateful. City officials say that offensive or divisive political statements do not belong on city property.

“If you have an opinion, you’re certainly entitled to it. Everyone has their opinion. Put it on your own personal vehicle or your own personal things,” Pompano Beach spokesperson Sandra King told WSVN. “But you don’t display it on city property, on city grounds that maybe someone else doesn’t agree with, that’s politically motivated, and it’s inappropriate.”

The administration launched an investigation immediately after hearing about the toilet paper.

The incident “is being fully investigated as a ‘politically motivated, conduct-unbecoming situation,’ and will continue to be considered accordingly unless the investigation reveals other motivations,” King told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in an email.

One year ago, a firefighter at the same station was asked to remove an anti-Obama bumper sticker from his locker. He obliged and admitted that he demonstrated poor taste by putting such a divisive political statement on municipal property.

When is enough going to be enough people? When?