Paula Deen Was Honest, Why Can't Everyone Else Be?

I'm not a Paula Deen fan.  I don't dislike her, I'm just not into her style of cooking.

From what I understand, she started at the bottom, single mom on foodstamps, and worked her way up.  I think that really says something about a person.  She gets credit from me for all her hard work.

What I don't understand is all the media attention on her because she said the "N" word".  Because she is now forced to wear a scarlet "N", she is losing everything.  None of this makes any sense to me.  What did she do that is so bad she deserves all this?  I'm not justifying racial slurs, but seriously folks, who out there has never said something they didn't mean, or were sorry they said?

Have you ever been to a garage sale or flea market and "jewed" a price down?
When you were a kid did you ever get an "indian" rub, or "indian" wrestle?
At a restaurant with a friend do you ever go "dutch"?

The kicker here to me is when you hear blacks/coloreds/negros/African American's (I don't know what the politically correct word of the day is) call each other the "N" word.  "Well, it's their word so they can say it".  I've never heard a group of Italian's say "yo yo dago, wassup?", or Asian teen agers saying "Hey chink" to each other.

This all out assault on this woman is just ridiculous and needs to stop.  So she said a racial slur, so what, who hasn't at least one time in their lives.  She doesn't use racial slurs in her daily conversation it was a one time mistake.  How stupid the media has become.

People in glass houses should not throw stones, unless you throw them at the media.