Showing posts with label Paula Deen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paula Deen. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 08, 2015

The not so subtle racism of Paula Deen is back on display.

Courtesy of CNN:  

Paula Deen has some explaining to do, again. 

An image posted on her social media accounts Tuesday showed Deen and her son Bobby dressed as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo from the classic 1950s TV comedy show "I Love Lucy." 

It might not have been so bad if Bobby Deen's face was not clearly painted a darker shade of brown than his hands. 

"Lucyyyyyyy! You got a lot of esplainin' to do!" read the caption on the photo, which has been deleted from all her social media accounts. 

Deen, in a statement issued by a spokeswoman, apologized "to all who were offended." She blamed a social media manager for posting the image from a Halloween episode of "Paula's Best Dishes" that aired in 2011.

Yes firing your social media manager, that will absolutely make everything alright again.  Especially considering what we already know about Deen.

The thing to keep in mind is that this episode aired in 2011, and apparently NOBODY said a thing about it.

Which I think just goes to show how ingrained and accepted racism is in this country, especially among those from the South.

By the way on what planet was Ricky Ricardo that dark skinned?

He is a light skinned Cuban. In fact I think I might be darker than Ricardo and I'm a pasty white Alaskan.