Paula Deen? Are you kidding?

This isn't really about Paula Deen. 

She is just a stupid volunteer.  It is about a moment in time which converges with SCOTUS' Voting Rights Act decision and Zimmerman.  It is about a society that thinks it is reality TV instead of the other way around.

The "N-word" - stupid childish, gives more power to a shitty word (one of many bazillion shitty words); because I am white, I am supposed to call it that (none of us knows what it stands for!).  Thus we convince people that they can be hurt by a word.  It is like being in a Harry Potter movie - I can't say Voldemort but "The thing that shall not be named".  What incredible Bull Shit.

Words are letters, syllables, sounds, strung together that impact your tympanic membrane and become sounds - then you make a meaning for them.  It if hurts you, then look at yourself.  It is an immature world where words are hurtful - "She called me a ....".  The next step is that this justifies whatever one does in response.  Quite frankly, a society cannot allow the use of a word to justify criminal behavior.  It can try to understand it, but cannot tolerate it.

Let's be fair; white, European-Americans are not the only ones taught to use such terms or who, either anonymously or when with their own "group", demean others and make stupid or threatening statements.  [Please go see how innocence looks].  I do not normally read The Blaze - but it is what it is - these are the little cherubs we are all supposed to be concerned about, the poor children the liberal media would tell us are so mistreated, the budding young sociopaths.  I feel certain that Paula Deen, for her many faults, will not be threatening mayhem on strangers any time soon, even after being robbed - just calling them names.  So, let's see:  Paula Deen is the devil, but these little cherubs are "victims"?

Perhaps it is comforting to bluster, perhaps it allows a sense of control over things that are not controllable, but it is simply more likely that society - or at least part of it - has taught these little want-to-be gangsters that they have a right to blame others.  It will certainly be interesting to see the excuses some people make for them if one acts out this threat - or dies in the attempt.  I do have to ask:  given these tweets, given one is a "cracker", I have to wonder if they have now provided a justification for lethal force if one is faced by a gang of these "gangstas" who approach them?

Whatever it is, you know, most people just want to be left alone to live our lives, to do no one else any harm; we don't care what you look like, what music you listen to, who you screw, or if you like to talk shit to make yourself feel more "empowered".  And I am sure that, should Zimmerman be convicted, masses of white Americans will not riot and burn their own neighborhoods or any one else's, nor commit random crimes based on skin color - it didn't happen when OJ was acquitted - but did when Rodney King's assailants were.  Go figure.  When will we demand that people meet expectations instead of excusing their misbehavior?

Anyone wonder why we are where we are today, how we got to coddling little "gangstas" and psychopaths, justifying their bad behavior, while the culture goes to hell?