To Bill Maher, Here’s Why Words Still Matter

by | Jul 5, 2013 | Opinion

It is common knowledge that the perennial Food Network star, Paula Deen, has used a condescending and derogatory term toward African Americans and spoken warmly of the world of the genteel antebellum (pre-Civil War) South. Before this news-making revelation, Deen and...

What Paula Deen Should Have Learned But Didn’t

by | Jun 25, 2013 | Opinion

By now, the story that Paula Deen casually admitted she had used racial epithets is old news. Further revelations that she also considered a “plantation-themed” wedding complete with white-jacketed African American men as waiters contributed to the...