Is it right to destroy an person if they made an mistake?....such as Paula Deen recently..

Last week Food Network didn't  renew her contract because she made racial slurs in the past..and now Smithfield Hams dropped her also...looks like she has to retire rather she wants to or not...but question is...politicians do it all the time..they don't get fired...is this right to do to others? Take thier livilihood from them in an snap of an bad mouth.  Reading over 949 responds to this question..people are saying they use the "Nigger" word in music and movies all the time and no one gets all hot an bothered about it, any more then when negros use to call white folks "whitey's"..sometimes it's done in friendship also...and they said...she apologized....so where's the forgiven the mistake come in these days? I keep thinking of that old adage "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me"..we learned as kids.  What do you guys think?

I totally agree with you Shirley.

Too much attention is being paid to what is nothing more than what the majority of us might think privately, or spoken in jest.

The world has gone to the dogs, too many do-gooders about!

If people understood the real meaning of Niggar in history they would find out it's not insulting at all. I wonder if the country of "nigeria" was named after it. Still awaiting word on Nelson Madela...they say he's "deep sleeping" at the moment....they most likley have him sedated though. As for Paula..she may be headed inot retirement...btu she also has health issues...maybe they are giving her an problem and this is thier way to see that she can be supplimented with pay if she does leave. Southerners have an different way with the colored folks..and not just because of "slavery"...an good many of them raised the white/european aristoratic children of the day. But I do think they play an important part in the "end days" as they call them.I do think that "God" knows thier sufferings also...ther wise therewould of been no "Civil War" here in the states over making them free people. To be treated worse then an dog is not saying something to complimentary about humanity....and for many back in those days..the owners took wifes and children at whim and "sold them" to the highest bidder...as if they were an piece of furniture..produce..dishes.."objects"....not human beings with emotions and feelings. We lose our "rights" to leadership doing these kinds of things...don't make any difference who we are either.Native Americans were merciless in slughtering off people..."God" took away thier leadership and subjected them also. we must always be prudent to our fellowman..whatever the cause may be..we must be fair and decent if we expect it back ourselves.

BTW...the orignal concept of the word niggar will be in my book I'm writng...it will include how it became the word for the "soul"...now refered to as "shadow" people in new age language...and how it was transformed throughut the world also in it's meaning of "black" to "spirit companion"...to mankind's spiritual esscence.. to even the "holy ghost" by some. It is particularly noted in lessons of the spirit in South America....Nigel is is male name for people and Nigella for the female version of the name. If people only knew thier history....and....Abraham Lincoln..the last thing I read on him...was killed by his own White house buddies...they were into Railroad building....and needed free labor...so they instituted slavery even more so...the Southerners said that in the case of the wealthy...that they probably gave them an better life, then had they been on their own...they resented the northerners saying that they mistreated them, and many people freed ther slaves in thier wills or passed them on to the next generation of the family to keep them together. So it really depended on what kind of an person you were on both sides...as to thier livabilty and it still is for many of us...and now of course the so called "middle class"....as people are desolving it so as to make an profit...by lack of jobs and benefits particualry. How that is resolved.... still remains to be seen.

Now that they have "attached" her for making anmistake...taking away her job with Food Network, her Smithville Hams, pulled her diabetes collaboration, Walmart and Target her products...her book sales have sky rocketed to number one at both "Amazon"and "Barnes and Noble" 1300 per cent as her fans back her for all the hell she's being put through right now...they say if she made an mistake..she's tried to make amends for it... and is simply being discrimanated against herself now. So..if she goes back into the cooking show business here's some names for it, taking into consideration of today's shows being aired these days....Battlefield "Porkchop"....Sex and Southern Comfort Foods....Mama's life is No Dessert.....Appetizers of the truthful kind....The Glory Days gone by.....and "Scandel in the Kitchen"...finally "Love me or Leave me...." Good luck Paula...and hope you come out on top of the situation...because what they say you did...they are doing also.