PAULA DEEN SHOULDN'T LOSE HER JOB- IT'S A BUM WRAP
SOMETHING SMELLS AT FOOD NETWORK AND IT'S NOT GOOD COOKING
THE KUHNS REPORT


LAS VEGAS - Hello America, and how is the world treating you?

Well here we go again. What people say is no longer free speech. Words that were in the dictionary and books for centuries are now used to ruin a person's career just because the United States wants to be POLITICALLY correct. Paula Deen is just the recent person that certain groups want to do harm to.

Let me get this out there right off the bat. I am not a cook or chef or anything that resembles one. I do not watch  the Food Network on a regular basis (only occasionally) that Mrs. Deen was affiliated with. I now know that there are millions of people that watch Deen's cooking shows but my concern over the uproar of Paula Deen using the "N" word is that "FREE SPEECH" and "FREE EXPRESSION" has been thrown out the window and has been dumbed down for decades. The United States was founded on freedom(s) and one of the most cherished is the right for anyone to say what they want  as long as they do not yell "fire" in a theater.

As to the "N" word, - - lets get it out there. It is the word Nigger, short for "Negro". It's a word, no more, no less, that's all it is unless one uses it in hateful context. Folks, that particular word has been written in books, journals newspapers, magazines for centuries referring to black ethnicity. Even today, the black people have been prone to use the word in everyday conversation. I have had them use it in my presence. Rappers, singers, comedians and actors in movies within the last couple years have used the word.

Deen was asked in a deposition : "Have you EVER used the "N: word. She answered honestly and responded "absolutely". She didn't want to lie in a sworn deposition but most any person over the age of 50 has in all likelihood at one time or another used that word as they were growing up. I am in my 70's and I can remember using the word before I was 17 years old. For anyone living in the 1940's, 50's and 60's the "N" word was a common word being used by most everyone in the country. After the civil rights movement in the 60's the word  "Black" came to replace the word "Negro" and the "N" word. In those days the "N" word wasn't used as a hateful thing . It was a slang version of  the word "Negro" It just describes a race of people, no more.

Hell, my race is white but I am from a German and Hungarian background. My great-grandparents came to the USA aboard a ship in 1902 and became  US citizens five years later and me,  my family and ancestors were called "Squarehead,  "Kraut", and yes, even "Nazi" which I was not. I had friends that were Italian and they were called "Guinea's and Whop's, my grand-dad was called a "Hunky". Let's not mention what people called Arabs, Gypsies and Chinese people. There was a word for most every type ethnic backgrond. Even our American Indian was called things like Redskin, dog eaters, scalpers and what not - -So, What's new? It did happen back then, on a regular basis but is does not happen that much now because of the political correct climate that is forced fed down our throats by the government and groups that have an agenda. What happened  years ago does not even relate to the current climate of 2013.

Just because people used those words decades ago doesn't mean that they should lose their job, their livelihood, or reputation. Hardly anyone uses the "N" word anymore, just like the  words are no longer used to describer the Italians, Germans, etc.

Deen answered truthfully but the attorney's should have only directed their questions to what the restaurant employee 's issues were at the restaurant she was working at, --- not something that may have happened decades ago.  The question, "Did you EVER use the "N" word?" is just a "gotcha" question. It's like -  "Did you ever beat your wife?" It appears the attorney asking the question of Deen wanted to be like the attorney in the O.J. Simpsoin trial  asking Mark Fuhrman about the "N" word.

I would  submit that if any of the attorneys are over  50 years old they themselves have used the "N" word as they grew up. Hypocrites , you bet!

As to the Food Network  not renewing Deen's contract. They are a bunch of hypocrites themselves. You can't tell me that of all those people employed at Food Network not one of them has never, EVER, used the "N" word at sometime in their life. I submit that the Food Network should renew Deen's contract and not go along with  pretended outrage that somewhere at sometime in her  life Deen used the "N" word.

Christ, get a life people and get away from this  political correct nonsense. Like me, I have no doubts that Paula Deen has worked with and associated herself with many  black people in her life. So, what's the fuss. The media sees Deen as a wounded, bleeding fish in the water and these shark's are circling to destroy someone that has been doing good for people for  years and years. In fact, just this evening a black commentor told the interviewer that since Paula Deen used the "N" word, she is now a racist. What a crock!

Wanna bet that the media and all the television networks will put their black correspondents and anchors front and center to babble about Paula Deen being a monster - - AND, that's totally wrong. - And, that's my opinion. You decide. Make your own decisions.

Bradley W. Kuhns, Ph.D., O.M.D.
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Dr. Kuhns can be reached by email at:
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