Huff Po; Paula Deen in 2012, My great granddaddy shot himself when he no longer had his slaves

[Botany]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/21/paula-deen-racism_n_3480720.html

He was so upset about the way the civil war turned out and that he no
longer had his 30 "workers," aka slaves, on the books he went out to
the barn on his plantation and shot himself.


And then she brings out her really really black employee to show she isn't a
racist because when you saw him you could see he was really really black.

[htuttle]

1. Then he's lucky that my great, great, grandaddy didn't get to him first

[BeyondGeography]

2. Nobody knows the trouble she's known

[pinboy3niner]

8. !!!

Nobody knows her sorrow....

[southernyankeebelle]

3. Please Paula stop the maddness. Shut up. The more you talk the more you are hurting

yourself. Stay out of the limelight for awhile and do some real soul searching and maybe in a couple of years you can come back on your sons show.

[Lex]

4. No longer having daily free labor was bad for business it turns out.

Oh boo hoo.

[Cirque du So-What]

5. Slavery wasn't 'free' labor

After all, the master had to provide free food (oftentimes leftovers from the master's table), lodging (rudimentary shelter), and medical care (medical degree not required), yunno. This was a terrible financial burden to the master, after all, and according to numerous neoconfederate jackwagons, the beginning of the 'welfare state' as we know it.

[treestar]

10. Yeah that cradle to grave care!

Forgetting the part where you could be sold and separated from your family!

Couldn't vote, couldn't leave if you wanted to. Neoconfederate jackwagons do like to overlook that point.

[Eleanors38]

6. My Mom's ancestry "fled" the Carolinas in the late 1850s

to Florida because there was little life beyond subsistency for poor white _______ under the slavery system; suicide was not an option. That was the beginnings of our antebellum Cracker lineage (and no doubt they saw the Civil War coming, too). Slavery was indeed a "peculiar" system.

Little is spoken of the pockets/regions of resistance to Confederate conscription and policies within the South.

[In_The_Wind]

7. IMO: Paula Deen is the worst example of a Southerner.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018417866

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018417780

[Aristus]

9. I agree.

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