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The Food Network is dumping celebrity cook Paula Deen for reportedly making racist comments in the past. Do you think the network was justified in making the move? Or do you think her apology should have been enough for the network to keep her?
“Since she apologized and it was in the past she should not have been fired. [She] and Mrs.Obama did not get along and I think that is why she was fired. I hope some one else picks her up.”
“Haha. It’s Obama’s fault, I love it.”
“I personally cannot stand prejudice and have taught my kids tolerance. I do not believe there are many people in this world who have not said something racist in their lives. If you aren’t currently living a prejudiced lifestyle then you have changed. We have a choice to not watch her or buy her products, firing her before she is found guilty, or for the past, is stupid.”
“People are vastly too sensitive. Something she said several years ago, that she apologized for, shouldn’t have much bearing on her employment now.”
“How can hatred and judgment be justified?”
“If the details in the lawsuit filed by Lisa Jackson against Paula Deen and her brother Bubba are true, then Food Network has no other option than to fire her. It has lot more to it than one minor incident o a long time ago. There should be plenty of witnesses to verify Jackson’s story, so time will tell.”
“She’s an irrelevant bigot. She regularly disregarded her restaurant employees by using hateful racial slurs in front of them while she dined like a queen, as she was planning to use her black employees to play as fake slaves to serve guests at a wedding! Her apology was fake and empty, fed to her from a crisis management company. If any of us got caught being engaged in the same level of bigoted behavior, there would be no second chance. Thankfully, I don’t think her pathetic crocodile tears will save her. America seems mighty ready to write off Paula Deen as a racist pig. Good riddance.”
“Equality will not be a reality until people stop brushing off racist comments, no matter when, where, or in what fashion they take place. I applaud The Food Network’s zero-tolerance decision.”