Nope. If a school has football, it'll have a black dude. Case in point: http://www.scadathletics.com/sports/2008/9/15/IM_flagfootball.aspx
I think people should focus a lot less on the use of the word nigger and much more on how Paula Dean's attitudes about blacks could have effected her position as an owner of a business that employs blacks. She stands to lose much more than just TV deals on this one.
Websters dictionary: someone please show me where Paula fits ANY of this definition? Just using the word, does NOT make you racist.
She could stop making money right this second, close all of her restaurants, and still live better than nearly everyone here for the rest of her days. She did something stupid a long time ago. What does it matter in the real world? If I was that old and fucking pc police tried to pull this shit on me I'd call a press conference and tell them all to fuck off, bend over and moon them, then smash the mic and walk away into the sunset.
What attitude about blacks? Not seeing any of her employees of color saying anything anywhere about how she's acted badly towards them. Just one white chick talking about her brother.
As you guys climb all over each other to correct me I would ask that you read what I wrote again. I never said that fatass was racist. What I was attempting to say, rather poorly I guess, is that all this court of public opinion stuff around word use and other issues will have a tremendous impact on her court case.
That I agree with, however that ain't close to what you said the first time around Now on to the name calling of fat people... WTF?
I know. I read what I wrote again and see how each of you read it. Sorry, poor communication on that one. I never called fat people anything. I called one fat woman whom I do not like a fatass. It was not my intention to offend any of our heavier friends.
What bothers me is the way she's excoriated for allegedly saying the same word that others get paid to say. And the only difference is the color of their skin. That, to me, is the definition of "double standard."
Agreed on that one. And so far I'm not seeing anywhere she's said nigger as a comment directed at anyone. Hell, still not understanding what the big deal is. Her brother did the stupid shit and should pay, she's getting screwed because he's a moron.
This actually brings up an interesting (to me) point. She gets robbed at gunpoint and tells her husband (probably in anger) that she was robbed by a nigger. Flex is disgusted by her and calls for (in anger) a fatass. There's only one conclusion from this: anger brings out people's true feelings.