Going to the gawker article - Caity's original piece! This piece is very well written!

The only reason to attend this event would be a chance for these racists to be among their own kind

Gravy Boat: My Week on the High Seas With Paula Deen and Friends
http://gawker.com/gravy-boat-my-week-on-the-high-seas-with-paula-deen-an-1522108382

It's much better to read the actual article. There's quite a bit of nuance there.

The story includes the "everyday racism" of the cruisers (one except here), but there is more to it.

the "reporter" than it does anyone else on the cruise.

I'm grooving on her writing

I originally clicked to read about the racism angle of the cruise, but found much more than that -- a writer whose work I am enjoying, and would likely enjoy regardless of subject

Kicking to read later!

declaration for her Bag Lady "charity" mentioned halfway down the page. More than half of the money is going to salaries and "consulting fees".

That failed auction including her husband's dirty shirt was hysterical!

What a freaking SCAM!

It's just how I feel when I'm around my parents and their friends. They're all very nice and you want to be nice back, but they say and do some of the most hideous things.

That cruise is my worst nightmare. I think I would really like to know the reporter personally, but she is seriously twisted for even going on that cruise from hell. I would've been at the bar the entire time. The fact that the reporter was able to go through that whole cruise and keep it straight for a week says a lot about her abilities. I think she's ready for a war zone.

How can responses to an article in what defines itself a Philadelphia web site be so consistently racist? Is there an editor culling out responses that call out those that are making onto the page?

The N word is the most commonly used slur.

Smarter trolls use 'urban', 'ghetto,' etc to prevent deletion.

"...and ran for three seasons (funded by the Department of Defense)"



WTF (a): There's a 'Pentagon Channel'
WTF (b): It has cooking shows
WTF (c): This is funded by the DoD
WTF (d): It ran for 3 seasons.

Time to look at Wikipedia:

We are a sweet people, but the fuckery can be insane.

Toast.

I don't know anyone who likes her or who ever watched her on TV.

How does this writer get to the point of saying that an elderly quiet man who is standing and watching the ocean is somehow contemplating people he has killed.

It must be a slow news week. If this writer can't come up with more than her speculation about a persons thoughts, which she has no way of knowing, then she just wasted an entire week of her time. Then I wasted a few minutes of my time reading this. Damn I'm mad at me.

Any serious and honest discussion of race in America deserves consideration. Don't be fooled by the author's understated approach, her great sense of humor or her self-daprecatory remarks. There's a lot to think about here, not the least of which is the steps a TV personality can take to rehabilitate herself in the public's eye once she's been outed as a racist, such as "palling around" with a few carefully-chosen representatives of the race in question.

No, my main disgust with this article was that without any communication the writer's presumption that she knew what a quiet elderly man was contemplating. That is pure and utter BS. But I guess some thrive on this type of stereotyping and bigotry.
Please, using fact, provable, testable fact, tell me how the hell she possibly could know this bit of information.
When she made that jump in her creative literature she put herself and her article in the same category as her main subject. Irrelevant to anything important.

She was not making an accusation, she was indulging in a bit of imaginative thought. Notice she says she like the South Dakotans a lot. Irony a little? Lighten up, she is trying to approach a sensitive subject with bait of humor and playfulness.

CLEARLY everyone ELSE is racist for even thinking the people on the cruise are racist!

Caity has a great sense of humor, and quite a bit of insight. Not nasty at all, but a few good questions are delicately raised.

After signing the Civil Rights Act, LBJ said that the Democratic Party would lose the South for a generation.
THAT generation is OVER.

Thanks to the Internet and Sat TV,
the monopoly over the minds of the children once held by Preachers and Parents has been broken.
The younger generations are Plugged In, and the old prejudices born of ignorance and isolation are retreating.
Still a long way to go, but after moving to the Deep Red Rural South in 2006, I have been pleasantly surprised by how open minded the kids are compared to 30 years ago.

The Old South is Ripe-for-the-Picking if the Democratic Party would spend some money down here.

The comments were so overrun by racist trolls that they had to cut them off.