Fans Beg Food Network and Retailers: Free Paula, Pass the Butter
Puzzling, but true: Paula Deen's social media followers are clamoring for the Food Network and retailers that sell Deen's merchandise to reinstate the cooking show host, even though she's admitted to using racial slurs.
Puzzling, but true: Paula Deen’s social media followers are clamoring for the Food Network and retailers that sell Deen’s merchandise to reinstate the cooking show host, even though she’s admitted to using racial slurs.
The proof is in the transcript of a deposition that Deen gave as part of a discrimination suit brought on by a former employee. When asked if she’d ever used the N-Word, Deen said, “Yes, of course.”
Deen insists that she’s not a racist; she had only used the forbidden word decades ago when a bank robber was holding a gun against her head.
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