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To: tejek who wrote (722961)	6/27/2013 1:16:34 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578495

>> Are you taking this position because you think she's been badly maligned, or simply because she is southern? She's badly maligned, she's southern, but most importantly, she mishandled the entire thing. I don't think she had the business savvy to get through it. Every single time she has appeared, she's blown it. It has nothing to do with what she said and it is all about the way she looked. Most people have not read the deposition, and almost no one has read Jackson's complaint. Frankly, the only reason she was deposed is that she had the deepest pockets. The woman has, in the words of Anne Rice, been "crucified". >> The n word is considered off limits because of what white southerners did to one particular race....the black race. In the South it was okay for one human being to enslave another human being, and use that human being as they saw fit. An entire economy was built on the backs of enslaved human beings. In addition to the physical, mental and sexual abuse these human slaves endured, in many instances, they were not allowed even the most basic of human rites...........like getting married. The black custom of jumping the broom came about because white slave owners would not allow their human slaves to marry in a ceremony.. 150 years ago. I have no idea what it has to do with someone who wasn't even alive at the time. But you should be careful about talking about "white southerners" -- because "white northerners" are not exactly pure on this issue. They have been locking up blacks in droves for decades, enslaving blacks to a life of dependence and poverty, and generally keeping blacks down -- far worse than anything southerners have done in Paula Deen's lifetime. It is easy to point out the tragic mistreatment of blacks like Emmit Till, but no one ever talks about the blacks -- as a result of liberal policy -- that are killing each other all over America because they live in a futile cycle of dependency, drugs, incarceration and family abandonment -- and that is at least as much a northern problem as it is a southern one. >> They were kept in ghettos, forced to go to separate schools, forced to use separate facilities, hung from trees, tarred and feathered and run out of town, torched to death, and even to this day, used as hunting sport by whites......esp in the South. You really might need to learn something about the history of racism in this country before you go laying it all on the South. Because it isn't nearly that simple. >> How dare you complain about affirmative action. There may have been a time and place for affirmative action. But we aren't doing blacks a favor by creating people, like Barack Obama, who get through an educational system without the skills their diplomas suggest they ought to have, or by giving blacks a free pass when it comes to life. People like Benjamin Carson and Condi Rice have shown that blacks can be every bit as capable as whites. It is the northern liberal who is holding down blacks today.