On Friday, June 21, 2013 8:42:55 PM UTC-5, Janet Bostwick wrote:
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> My point was that in
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> the world of advertising and image, Paula has drawn too much of the
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> wrong kind of attention and no longer represents the image the FN
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> wants to present. Everyone must have noticed how squeaky clean
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> everyone of their people are. They are pretty clear about what they
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> want. She's carrying too much baggage now. It isn't just using the N
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> word. There's the plantation, nostalgic old South wedding she wanted,
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> the lawsuit, the furor over hiding her diabetes, the late show
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> parodies about her and her food habits. She's become a joke and as
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> such she has not fulfilled what FN expected of her.
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Especially "the plantation, nostalgic old South wedding." That's more
offensive than everything else put together. None of us can completely
escape from our past bigotries, but that kind of embracing of slavery
and Jim Crow isn't in any way acceptable.

I read a cool essay yesterday. Here's a quote.

"No matter how hard I try, I have no hope of ever cleaning the ugliness of intolerance from my 'soul.' But I will try to make a better world for my children."
--Kaveh Mousavi
--source
http://blog.theproudatheist.com/is-i...kaveh-mousavi/

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> Janet US

--Bryan