On 6/29/2013 1:54 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
> I think the larger picture is this. A growing majority of people have just had it with all the strife, bigotry, racism, angst and agendas. Whether she said something 20 years ago or not has become irrelevant. Paula Deen has become the poster child of what most people want do leave behind them.
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> I feel a bit sad for Paula Deen because it means the collapse of a tidy empire she had built, but I feel a bit better about society in that we seem to be, finally, saying "no" to everything here past actions stand for in our nation.
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> http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/27/news...html?hpt=hp_t2
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Before you feel to secure with all this consider, the "n" word is still
perfectly fine for rappers and people of a certain coloration or
heritage to use.

And that is just plain wrong.

It doesn't need to be de-mystified, it needs to be un-circulated.

What is happening to Deen now is known as "piling on".

It's no more pleasant in the public arena than it is in a football arena.