(Even though Ricky has never said that.)
Ahh, Paula Deen. It seems that "racist" is a term that will still follow you, no matter how hard you try to shake it.
The Queen of Butter is in racial controversy yet again for a photo she took involving television icon I Love Lucy and her son Bobby wearing makeup that people are actually calling "brownface".
In the photo, taken 3 years ago on a Halloween episode of her former Food Network show Paula's Best Dishes, Deen is dressed as Lucy Ricardo, with her son Bobby Deen in "Brownface" as Ricky (you can see his hands are not the same skin shade; possibly because of the boatload the makeup artists put on his big-ass head) and another guy behind them possibly as a slimmed-down Fred Mertz. This was released recently by her social media team and has since been deleted (a term people shouldn't use anymore, because a photo appearing on the Internet will never go away) from her SoMed pages. A spokesperson for Deen issued an apology she wrote, saying she has apologized "to all who were offended", and has now fired her publicist.
Really, people??
You're offended by a still image of a man in a darker shade of face paint, without realizing the outfit his mom is wearing beside him? Maybe you didn't see the hashtag "#TransformationTuesday" in the caption? Or the fact that this was actually released NEARLY 4 YEARS AGO!?!
Two black guys dressed as two white chicks in a comedy film, and no one said shit about it and laughed it off; yet if a white guy wears makeup as a Cuban man, oh snap, it's going down like a Pitbull song.
If you can't see that, then your morals are really strange.
Honestly, I don't understand the backlash. Sure, I understand the controversy surrounding it, but I don't get the HUGE amount of backlash that it has gotten. It's a photo of a person in a Halloween costume and someone else almost in one; I don't see why this is getting the shitstorm it has gotten. The fact that people are continuing to give this woman attention, even if they said they wanted nothing to do with her anymore, is just sad. They are giving anything that shouldn't be worth attention the attention it does not deserve (which is also really sad), and there is click-bait "shock" from the online media. Yeah, I clicked on a site, but only to copy-paste the photo.
In my opinion, I don't care about Paula Deen anymore. I'm just not wasting my time with this butter-battered and inhaling woman since I don't cook gourmet southern hick cuisine, and way before the "N-word" incident. This photo does not mean a damn thing to me, and I've seen worse Halloween costume pic before.
Remember Julianne Hough dressed as Crazy Eyes in Blackface?
I know we all know we gave her crap for that.Or how about Chris Brown and his entourage dressed as members of the Taliban?
You best believe that he still deserves everything throw at him for that dogshit.
Although they deserved the backlash for this backwards lapse in thinking, we should learn by now that Halloween costumes are just harmless, no matter the harm created by them. So people, stop giving this woman the attention she doesn't deserve outside her greasy mess cooking career.
And Paula, if you don't want your cooking empire to crumble after just now picking up the pieces, don't ever do things like this without realizing that some people WILL take things at face value and react like Ricky himself when Lucy was stuck on a ledge as Superman (You guys know the episode).
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