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wow they hit her big :2 cents:

Paula Deen Makes Public Apology, Gets Fired by Food Network

Friday has been quite the busy day for Paula Deen ... and not in a good way. First, she was a no-show for her "Today" show appearance, then she made an attempt at an apology for her past racist comments (and more) by posting a video to YouTube. As media outlets began picking up the video, in which she begged forgiveness from everyone from her children to her fans, it was suddenly taken down. But within an hour or so, a new apology video went up. And just as it did, other news broke: The Food Network is firing her.

All of the hubub stems from the recent release of her deposition statements for a discrimination lawsuit made by a former employee. In the deposition, Deen admits to having used the N-word, tolerating racist jokes, and mulling over a wedding in which all of the waiters would be black and dressed as slaves.

In her latest apology video, the 66-year-old sits in an office looking into the camera, and kicking things off with her signature "Hello, y'all." Interestingly, she starts off with an apology about skipping her "Today" appearance.

"I was invited this morning to speak with Matt Lauer about a subject that has been very hurtful for a lot of people and Matt, I have to say I have been physically not able to this morning. The pain has been tremendous that I have caused to myself and to others. So I'm taking this opportunity, now that I have pulled myself together and am able to speak, to offer an apology to those that I have hurt," she says in the 2-minute clip. "I want people to understand that my family and I are not the kind of people that the press is wanting to say we are. The color of your skin, your religion, your sexual preference does not matter, but it?s what's in the heart ? and my family and I try to live by that."

Deen continues her apology, ending with "I hope that you forgive me because this comes from the deepest part of my heart?."

Of course, the apology comes too late to salvage her own cooking show. "Food Network will not renew Paula Deen's contract when it expires at the end of this month," it said in a statement. Deen has been with the network for more than a decade.

Earlier Friday, after Deen bailed on the "Today" show interview with Matt Lauer, the NBC News morning show called out her "no-show" in the cold open of its broadcast.

A clearly irritated Lauer said that he spoke with Deen about having a "candid, open and no-holds-barred discussion," but then added that, just minutes before it went to air, the show was contacted by Deen's publicist who relayed that the celebrity chef was exhausted and wouldn't be showing up.

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It's not southern cooking without a sprinkling of the n word

well now she can scream it at home :1orglaugh

such a despicable and vile person she is

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Deen admits to having used the N-word, tolerating racist jokes, and mulling over a wedding in which all of the waiters would be black and dressed as slaves.

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Google, waiters, S&S Cafeteria, 1960's -
Pretty famous chain in the south that now hires rude pinay's instead.

If waiters were dressed as slaves they would have been wearing muzzles so they could not spit in the food. Also, when delivering food from kitchen building to main house, servants/slaves were required to whistle. Whistling stops, punishment begins.

I've seen racist remarks, in some form, from pretty much everyone on this board.

how often does this woman have to do this?

wow! how many work at the food network?? :helpme serious question

hell if i know :1orglaugh this makes that lawsuit potentially a slam dunk. oh and the plaintiff is not black http://www.syracuse.com/entertainmen..._depositi.html

no offense, but this is so fucking stupid.

if you are a public figure and run your mouth, you better be able to take the consequences. celebrities ARE different from the average Joe, if you don't like the fact get another job. :2 cents:

racism, sexism and every-other-ism will be around forever, so just be respectful, its not all that difficult to do... and make jokes behind closed doors :1orglaugh

Exactly! you better have it recorded before a confession! she must have been drunk! "uh i called my black friend nigga that is all" yall :1orglaugh

Clearly a misunderstanding... :upsidedow

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I hope Paula Deen chokes on a donut and deep fries in hell... :winkwink: (j/k, I don't wish such on anyone, although I prolly would have fired her under the circumstances, although I'm not sure what her un-nutricious appeal is anyway.

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ADG

maybe sh ewas influenced by bill cosby?

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ANNNDDD how many times has are chief and commander used this word? Would be interesting to see under oath.
Come the fuck on......you do not need to be racist, to speak a word, only ignorant to think it is always aimed at color. Hahas are every where, a rainbow of idiots.

it becomes different if it's an employer using racial terms in front of those employees

but, thanks for chiming in.

Yeah white old woman Southern boss using the N~word in front of black employees ballsy and stupid , or she's so rich she doesn't give a shit :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

seems to give a shit now. and with the ensuing lesson on how mobs work, good luck to her and everyone who's obviously connected to her.

She done fucked up

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh you crack me up!

You just wonder why she didn't settle out of court though and pay the woman

not at all. she "did nothing wrong", and therefore had no reason to settle.

see no evil hear no evil :2 cents: she cant see the right thing.

get out of my brain richard!! :helpme :1orglaugh

Lets face it her show/cooking and the network are on the wane for all except the totally food glutton dumbasses all over. She is close to retiring and has already banked. This little flap and her firing will help food network make people think they give a shit. Which I am sure they dont.

Anyone here eaten at her restaurants? I have. That shit will kill you. Truly payback to all who go there. I had to rest after I ate at Lady and Sons. I would never eat there again.

It is ALWAYS packed though. To work there has got to be one of the worst food service jobs in Savannah.

Brassmonkey your avatar is the most racist thing I've seen in quite a long time. I mean its ghetto chic but not even Kardashian chic. :upsidedow

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wtf???

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Just pathetic that an old cracker can't call a spade a nigga without some jew network owner getting his hebe ass all worked up like a wop being called an italian loafer and firing her. Give the honkey a break, how will the redneck pay her spic gardeners and the slope that does her nails?

Who gives a fuck? Not this wigger.


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yet your in here.

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certainly you had to work on that one, that can't be a 1st draft!@

Cosby is irrelevant to black people; white people made him famous and he has no touch of reality about living the life of a "black".

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that's what i'm sayin foo!

paula dean + bill cosby = profit!

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Why I'm appalled at your language.


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damn, gotta hankering for fried chicken now but i am currently boycotting the local kfc becasue they forgot the biscuits last time.

that's.. extremely racist

Cosby turned 'race' into a byproduct, and highlighted 'humanity' into what was important. Doesn't matter what race the child is that watches him, he's someone every person can look up to.

it's too bad you don't see that, if this isn't a troll

would never say that stuff dogg :1orglaugh

bill is a talker :2 cents: never seen any of the programs he's started. he does know how to feel on college girls tho. :1orglaugh

I know. I'm just pointing out the stupidity of words.

I will say this re: the n word. When it's battered about by the top entertainers as part of comedy or as a term of everyday greeting/endearment among blacks it loses the harsh negativity it's also supposed to convey. Lead by example comes to mind.

well its entertainment. if your on the job and some guy is running racist jokes. :helpme man larry the cable guy says stuff all the time. she was not calling people the n-word as comedy it was out of anger. there is a difference.

I see your point but as far as commenting on her use of the word I watched a Kat Williams video last night … laughed my ass off … how upset should I be ?


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do you work for kat williams? did he say 'cracker' in the workplace?

Aren't you sensitive today. Who shit in your Molson?

not at all

curious tho, you asked why there was a problem with all these 'black people' using the term 'hahahahahaha' as an every day term/joke/saying

were you joking about that as well, or do you not see why?

What I'm saying is if the word is supposed to be so toxic don't have public figures in the Black community desensitizing how offensive it's supposed to be by constantly making light of it.


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Nigga please!

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its art so you can be pissed. if we limited art it would be a bad place. :2 cents: i know you know the difference. i know he calls white folks out at the shows ive been there. :1orglaugh its not out of hate its part of the show.

Fixed that fer ya.