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Originally Posted by Lil Sis  Taylor I find this highly offensive. I am southern... as is/was my family. We and I do not use the "N" word. I will say in my grandma's time she used the word "colored" in the same way I would say "African American or perhaps black"-- with the people I have met as an adult and with travel bigots are not exclusive to the south.
I never liked or disliked Paula deen. I thought she was a bit over the top with the "yall" stuff. I also felt she took the "bad" parts of southern cooking and focused on it. She kinda of reminded me of the show "two fat ladies" -- they were from UK.
As far the "n" word being racist.. I think it is an insulting word. I hear my students use it and I always have a discussion with them. I hear words to white and Hispanic that are just as bad, and I see reverse predijuce all the time. It is an emotional word... |
It was not meant to be offensive. My Grandmother grew up in Mississippi and her Aunt who raised her grew up with that word and thinking is was just another word to describe black. She was anything but a terrible person and I am not saying all southern people are like that but I know for a fact a lot where raised not thinking it was a bad word and I am talking like people 90 years old, my Grandmothers aunt was slightly over that when she passed this year. I had asked my Grandmother about the word when I heard her aunt use it once and she said she was raised that way and not thinking it was a terrible word and that her mother and there sister was also raised that way.