Paula Deen Scandal Continues As Employees Tell Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Of Alleged Discrimination

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Source: Huffington Post



An attorney for the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition said current and former Paula Deen employees told him the famous cook and her brother discriminated against black employees, one of whom was consistently referred to as "my little monkey."

After Deen acknowledged using a racial slur, the story went viral and the Food Network announced on Friday that it would not renew her contract when it expires at the end of June.

Deen and her brother, Bubba Hiers, are being sued by Lisa T. Jackson, a former employee who claims she endured a hostile work environment replete with racial slurs.

Robert Patillo, an attorney for Rainbow/PUSH, a civil rights group founded by the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Jr., said one current and two former employees told him white employees are routinely paid more than black employees and are promoted more quickly. A black man who had threatened to go to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Deen's brother told him "you don't have any civil rights here," Rainbow/PUSH said in a press release.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/23/paula-deen-scandal-continues-employees-tell-rainbow-push-alleged-discrimination_n_3484607.html

[Buzz Clik]

1. The knuckledraggers are going to find this whole mess quite confusing.

"Monkey begins with M not N, so what's the problem?"

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

2. I'm sure they'll be people here on DU defending Paula Deen just as there was the other day...

...but will swear up and down that there's no racism in Liberal America.

[heaven05]

3. you

are right.

[Iliyah]

4. I can't wait for the US Supreme Court

rulings on that matter cause at 5 of them have said there is no more racism in the United States!

[msanthrope]

6. Awesome use of sexist term...I guess we must crawl before we walk, eh?? nt

[Bo]

7. ahhhh ...civil suits....I now believe about 10% of what is being said.

All this happened years ago and why is it now just coming to light?

[NYC Liberal]

10. It didn't all happen "years ago". And it's getting attention now because

she just admitted to it. At least some of it.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. I thought this was a tempest in a teapot at first, too.

I always liked Paula Deen as an entertainer. Knew nothing about her personally.

But the more I learn the more disgusted I become. If these accusations are true she needs to be pulled off the air.

I always worry they may not be true and someone from the competition may be putting a lot of really bad stuff out there just to ruin her.

This is starting to get overwhelming. But I'm waiting to see how this finally plays out.

[R Merm]

14. My wife and daughter had some interaction with her on a national news program,

she does not come across as a nice person when the cameras are not on

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. I'll bet that's true of a lot of "famous" people.

They are just on for the cameras and then turn it off.

[AndyA]

11. Paula Deen has always annoyed me.

She's too nice, with her y'alls and her down home countrified pseudo slick charm. She ladles the gravy on too thick for me, and in my experience people who go out of their way to be too nice aren't really all that nice, and are hiding something.

I think she got too big for her britches and now it's catching up to her. You don't have to be overly nice to anyone, just treat everyone the same, with respect, courtesy, and appreciation for the things they do for you.

[deafskeptic]

12. I concurr with you, AndyA

I'm a southern cook and I find her conduct toward blacks inexcusable. Just because you cook southern doesn't mean you have to be ugly toward blacks or long for the South before the Civil war happened.

[murielm99]

13. Founded by Jesse Jackson Sr., not Jr.

The Rainbow/PUSH organization has an interesting history.

[DainBramaged]

15. Paula Deen fan butter injector

[Kablooie]

17. Beginning to sound like all the hubbub was justified.