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Paul Deen Part II:The White-Black Workplace Relationship in Social Memory

As much as I would love to let sleeping dogs lie, I had to post this to reiterate what i see as the significances of the Paula Deen case. This is indeed not a matter of deciding whether what a celebrity says matters or not, or whether we should forgive. This must be lifted from…

An Infatuation with Plantation Imaginaries: Paula Deen’s Demise

Jun 21, 2013Andrea Roberts4 CommentsUncategorizedafrican, agoraphobia, black, Food Network, foodways, heritage, imaginaries, memory, Paula Deen, plantation, poor, poverty, slavery, Southern, white

This is not just about being insensitive or hurtful. People don;t get fired over hurt feelings in America, especially not hurt “Black” feelings. Black people just aren’t that soft. We can’t afford to be. What we can afford to do is demand a workplace that isn’t hostile to our being treated as more than 3/5…