That’s the question that seems to be bubbling to the surface in the fallout from Deen’s n-word controversey. Bill Maher made the case on his show recently, asking, "If you’re 66 years old, and you were raised in Georgia, and you were a child before the civil rights movement, do you get a bit of a pass?"
That question was also at the center of a New York Times piece that looked at Paula Deen’s supporters, who gathered in front of her Georgia restauraunt and threatened to boycott the Food Network for dropping Deen amid the controversey. "I get it, believe me," one woman told the Times. "But what’s hard for people to understand is that she didn’t mean it as racist. It sounds bad, but that’s not what’s in her heart. She’s just from another time."
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