Crazy how consumed with racism the left has become since Obama was elected.
Via Mediaite:
Former Food Network star Paula Deen’s dismissal from her job after she testified in a court deposition that she had used racial slurs in the past frustrated an MSNBC panel on Friday. Not because Deen’s firing has resulted in a spike in sales of her books from her supporters, though that was a part of it. The panel was upset because the Deen scandal distracts from so many other racist aspects of American life – from the Cleveland Indian’s mascot to the Washington Redskins name to Aunt Jemima breakfast products. […]
“I could understand why she’d be confused given the Aunt Jemima box and given the Popeye’s – like, it’s also to say that there’s a weird way in which she becomes the thing onto which we can cast all of our anxiety,” MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry agreed. “Because then we don’t have to cope with fact that the Cleveland Indians have a sambo Indian as their identity, and that the Washington Redskins are using the language of redskin, and that Aunt Jemima may have a perm but it’s still selling pancakes and this Southern mystique though food.”
Harris-Perry said that Deen may be genuinely confused about what constitutes racism when “we accept so much racism in our food industry.”