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TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts)
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 01:47 PM Jun 2017

Wheel of Fortune's "Southern Charm Week" features illustration of slaves

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WTF?





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Long-running game show “Wheel of Fortune” is celebrating “Southern Charm Week” this week, but stirred up controversy by including an illustration of a plantation house with slaves in front of it.

The New York Daily News showed a photo still from “Wheel of Fortune” that showed co-hosts Pat Sajack and Vanna White posing in front of a backdrop photo of a mansion with two black women walking by dressed in slave-era clothing.

“Someone please tell me why @WheelofFortune has slaves in their ‘Southern Charm Week’ images?” asked Twitter user Joshua Itiola.

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More at the jump:

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/wheel-of-fortunes-southern-charm-week-features-illustration-of-slaves/

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Wheel of Fortune's "Southern Charm Week" features illustration of slaves (Original Post) TheBlackAdder Jun 2017 OP
slavery had a lot to do with "Southern Charm" lapfog_1 Jun 2017 #1
How charming! longship Jun 2017 #2
Pat is a teabagger from way back. Lochloosa Jun 2017 #3
Tea partier just wanted to show his idea of what is charming about the south lunasun Jun 2017 #4
Paula Deen! byronius Jun 2017 #5

lapfog_1

(29,205 posts)
1. slavery had a lot to do with "Southern Charm"
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 01:50 PM
Jun 2017

all those "servants" to wait on you hand and foot...

while other "servants" made money for you by working in the fields.

byronius

(7,395 posts)
5. Paula Deen!
Fri Jun 16, 2017, 02:23 PM
Jun 2017

from Huffington Post --

The National Enquirer claims to have acquired a video of a deposition in which Deen admits to using the N-word and making racist and anti-semitic jokes. She also allegedly describes her interest in hiring black waiters dressed to look like “slaves” at a wedding.

The deposition, which was reportedly held on May 17, took place as part of a court case brought forth by former Paula Deen Enterprises employee Lisa Jackson against Deen and her brother, Earl “Bubba” Hiers. Jackson alleges several instances of sexual and racial workplace discrimination.

Neither the video of the deposition or The National Enquirer’s story are available on the web, but Radar Online posted some of the story’s most disturbing highlights:

When asked if she wanted black men to play the role of slaves at a wedding she explained she got the idea from a restaurant her husband and her had dined at saying, “The whole entire waiter staff was middle-aged black men, and they had on beautiful white jackets with a black bow tie.

“I mean, it was really impressive. That restaurant represented a certain era in America…after the Civil War, during the Civil War, before the Civil War…It was not only black men, it was black women…I would say they were slaves
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