Facebook is the parking lot for "anonymous opinions" or at least that's what people think. I decided to make this blog to bring my Facebook page back to low key. Still hasn't happened, but sometimes there is information that I just don't need to say out loud in writing to friends. I need to say out loud in person. This is one of those time. So to get this off of my chest, I come to my blog.
I have never been a Paula Deen fan. When I started seeing information about the N-bomb I really just shook my head. Read pieces of her disposition and thought well, she didn't do her or her brother justice. I pretty much moved past this star who has dug a hole for herself. It reopens conversation that needs to be had, but she isn't someone I care about rallying for or against. She likes butter, I like people who want to make the world a better place.
What gets me is seeing friends of mine taking a piece of the controversy and running with it. You have an opinion "If 'they' can use it, why can't 'we' ?". That's an old conversation to me. Has no one actually looked up why Paula Deen is "on trial"? All this was talked about in the first place because her brother admittedly discriminated against women and people of color in the business he ran. From the disposition, she knew about it, talked with him and moved on, letting it fester into a lawsuit. All this is body of proof to why she would do something like that. Does anyone have a problem with that?
Should we be mad at Walmart because they dropped Deen from their payroll for the n-word while still selling rap with the n-word, or should we be mad, because they are double dipping by getting tax breaks and making the work place as such that many, many of their employees have to be on public assistance. Many of them women. They've been slapped for discriminating against women and locking the glass ceiling on many. They provide jobs that turn the jobless poor into the working poor.
No comments:
Post a Comment