Back in May, while being questioned about her racial attitudes in connection with a discrimination lawsuit, the 66-year-old Food Network star and Savannah restaurant owner honestly related the fact that she had used racial slurs in the past, but that she has not tolerated the practice for a long time. Now, while I don’t condone the use of racial slurs in polite conversation, I know that their use was common practice among a lot of Americans decades ago, and not just in the South. I would also point out that Deen’s testimony was far more forthright than that of Los Angeles detective Mark Fuhrman who, in 1995 during the O.J. Simpson trial, testified that he had not used the word...
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