What Constitutes a Racist Remark?

This is America, though. I'm just wondering why the f*** it's a law that we have to have documents signed in Spanish.

What did Sweet Daddy D say? Oh, never mind.

Point is, there is no difference.

I'm not sure there was really any racist intent, the guy probably should have kept his mouth shut though.

Yeah, not all stupid remarks are necessarily racist

Yeah, not all stupid remarks are necessarily racist

I know that.

If Gwosdz was really trying to be funny, he is the WORLD'S...WORST...COMEDIAN. When you try to make a joke and your audience just goes, "Huh?", I think comedian is out as a career path for you.

And Hog1, your comment was so true.

So the attorney has apologized.

In an effort to mend bridges, Victoria City attorney Thomas Gwosdz apologized Tuesday for a comment some saw as offensive...

"It didn't come out the way I expected it to," Gwosdz said. "I regret what I said. It was certainly not meant to give offense, but apparently, I did by accident."

Benny Martinez, director of the area League of United Latin American Citizens chapter, said he accepts the apology. "We have good reason to be sensitive because for years we have been criticized in a derogatory manner, and it really hurts our feelings when people do that," Martinez said. We do accept your apology. I know we can work together."

The bold. LOL. Get a life.

I didn't find it insensitive or racist, oddly enough.

But to be fair, that area belonged to Mexico first and many Hispanics have been in the southwest long before the Europeans settlers came around.

Paula Deen Dumped by Food Network After N-Word Admission - chicagotribune.com (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-televisionmt1thewrap99011-20130621,0,3215823.story)

I would LOVE to hear peoples opinions on this. So I guess we no longer can have freedom of speech or express our opinions in our homes? Thoughts?

Paula Deen Dumped by Food Network After N-Word Admission - chicagotribune.com (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-televisionmt1thewrap99011-20130621,0,3215823.story)

I would LOVE to hear peoples opinions on this. So I guess we no longer can have freedom of speech or express our opinions in our homes? Thoughts?

"She accused Deen of using the N word as recently as in 2007, while discussing an idea for a 'plantation'-style wedding."

Is it just me or are we focusing on the lesser thing here... a what style wedding??

"She accused Deen of using the N word as recently as in 2007, while discussing an idea for a 'plantation'-style wedding."

Is it just me or are we focusing on the lesser thing here... a what style wedding??

The news tonight has kept bringing up how in court they asked her if she used the N word before. And her response was along the lines of "oh sure, of course I have. In my own home...like the time I had a black man put a gun to my head and I told that story to my husband"

I'm surprised the news outlets I saw tonight (NBC local, NBC nightly news, Access Hollywood) didn't bring up her plantation style wedding comment. That was public, so that makes more sense to fire her than what she said in her own home.

Paula Deen Dumped by Food Network After N-Word Admission - chicagotribune.com (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-televisionmt1thewrap99011-20130621,0,3215823.story)

I would LOVE to hear peoples opinions on this. So I guess we no longer can have freedom of speech or express our opinions in our homes? Thoughts?

Are you kidding me? It wasn't a personal conversation between her and someone else in her home, this was an idea she openly expressed, obviously around co-workers which is why an employee was the one who pressed charges.

Freedom of speech in your own home is your own business, but from the accounts I've read she made no qualms about openly using the N-word. Hell, the woman admitted that she used it.

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/webdr06/2013/6/19/12/enhanced-buzz-14390-1371659466-6.jpg

And when asked if she wanted black men to play the role of slaves at a wedding she explained she got the idea from a restaurant her husband and her had dined at saying, “The whole entire waiter staff was middle-aged black men, and they had on beautiful white jackets with a black bow tie.
“I mean, it was really impressive. That restaurant represented a certain era in America … after the Civil War, during the Civil War, before the Civil War…It was not only black men, it was black women … I would say they were slaves.”

This sounds like a woman who is unabashedly, unapologetically racist and hides behind her Southern roots as the cause.

You Southern a-holes lost the war. Time to move on.