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When news first broke of Paula Deen’s indelicate turns of phrase, I ignored it.C’mon. What American hasn’t used the word nigger? We teach children the word each time Mark Twain’s Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer are assigned in class.
After the initial headlines, there came anecdotes so salacious that she was a no-show on The Today Show, where she’d been scheduled to give a mea culpa and get on with her life.
Through it all, my admiration never waned for her along with Martha Stewart and B. Smith, women who’d turned housework into home-making, built empires and given millions of women immense pride in the work they do for their families.
Then, I heard Ms. Deen speak of her great-grandfather’s having gone into a barn and shot himself because the Civil War had been lost and “he didn’t know how to…
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