Tonight on my way home, I am listening to the Gospel Station and they are talking about Paula Dean. I really think we need to leave Paula Dean alone. If you remember she was the one that said before she started cooking, she suffered with deep depression so badly she couldn’t leave her house. But cooking became a way for her to break the depression. Years ago in an interview she talked about how her great grandfather killed himself when the civil war was over, because he lost all of his slaves. The thing in Paula Dean is deeper than most of you can imagine, and we need to be very careful in judging her. I have family members that at one point in their life could pass for white, and I also have a family member that, to this day, sometimes calls me blackie. Do I want them to suffer? NO! Do I want everybody to come against them for how they speak? NO! Why? Because this person speaks from their generation, whether it’s right or wrong, it’s who they are. We need to stop jumping on the race bus every time it rides by. Paula Dean should not have said what she said, but should we keep talking about it, and making it the center of our conversation? Should she lose everything she has, because of what she said? NO! Would you still drive the car you drive if you really knew how the designer felt about African Americans? Would you wear the clothes you wear, or carry the hand bags you carry if you knew how the designer feels about African Americas? Would you shop at the stores you shop at if you knew how the owners felt about African Americas? The point I am trying to make is she just said it out loud, and I respect her. With Paula there is no hidden agenda. The one you need to watch is the one that’s not saying anything at all, because it would probably blow your mind if you knew how they really feel about you. Let’s forgive her and more on. You really don’t want to be the reason this woman cries herself to sleep, or go back into depression. God will hold you accountable for every word that comes out of your mouth. E.A. Bucchianeri once said, “If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.”
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 02:20:48 +0000
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