Paula Deen: Guilty Until Proven Innocent for the Crime of the Century

Mammy protectively reprimanding Scarlett in Gone With the Wind

Paula Deen, the "Southern cook" is in a lot of trouble. She committed the Crime of the Century. She used the n-word. I am sure this was not in malice, as her apology videos repeatedly show. I think it is a traditional Southern thing, where the word simply means black, although with the connotation of a "black gone bad," as white trash, a term used both by blacks and whites, is for whites gone bad. In fact, nigger is used freely by blacks, who use it "endearingly" for a fellow black, usually of a lower class, and who may be involved in some kind of criminal behavior. Blacks have a whole hierarchy of words to classify each other by. They have a clear understanding of each other's limitations.

I think Deen also used the word to point out the limitation of these "nigger" blacks around her, yet towards whom she still feels paternal (or maternal, in her case). She feels close enough to blacks to call them out (by using the word nigger) on behaviors they could improve. I think she still lives psychologically in the Gone With the Wind era, where black slaves were affectionately, and paternalistically, taken care of by their white owners, and punished (some harshly and cruelly) when they breached these social expectations. And the slaves understood these contracts, and took affectionate care of their masters, as Mammy did of the rebellious Scarlett.

Deen says something similar:

Back then [when she was younger], black folk were such integral part of our lives, they were like our family, and for that reason, we didn't see ourselves as being prejudiced.

Blacks were generally grateful towards whites, not for some crumbs they received, but for the protective and familial way in which they were mostly treated. Now, what we have is begrudging, relentlessly accusatory, deeply dissatisfied black Americans, who have reaped the benefits of white America, and yet who are never satisfied, and will at every opportunity point a finger at whites.

I think that whites still feel have a protective attitude towards blacks, to keep them out of trouble, and to keep them American, which means following the rules and leadership of whites as their fellow countrymen, and the contracts of the country. Yet, blacks no longer have this affectionate, familial attitude towards whites. In fact 99% of blacks now think that whites are out to harm them, and they will always be vigilant and hostile towards whites.

But, it is still whites who are the arbitrators of justice for blacks. It is whites who are causing the demise of Deen's businesses, where major retailers are closing their doors on Deen's products for her "racist" behavior.

According to The Examiner:

Sears, Kmart, Walgreens and J.C. Penney are the latest retailers to end their business relationships with Paula Deen. In addition, Ballantine Books just called off a lucrative five-book deal. That makes a total of 11 business partners who have now distanced themselves from the controversial cook.

These partners included Target, Walmart, Novo Nordisk (a diabetes drug maker), The Food Network, QVC, Caesars Entertainment Corp (of casinos), Smithfield (which specializes in hams and pork products), and Home Depot.

And it is the news media, run and controlled by a white majority, which are demanding that she make a national apology for her behavior.


Deen with finger-pointing Matt Lauer on the Today Show, June 26, 2013

Now, the interesting thing here is that whites are once again protecting blacks! From the evils of the Crime of the Century - Racism. Paula Deen, in her candid way, spoke up about blacks and hurt their feelings. That's all she did: she didn't kill anyone; she didn't destroy any black's home or businesses; she didn't yell in public obscenities against blacks. She just used words to describe the black person in a way that is no longer acceptable to the do-gooder, black-saving whites of the twenty-first century version.

So, there it is: both parties (the "For Deen" and the "Against Deen") are protecting the ever-vulnerable blacks to this day.

Deen is making the apology circuit, after she posted her own apology videos on Youtube. The first Youtube video shows a confident, yet penitent Deen. I watched the second video with fascination, and a little horrified. She was disheveled and rambling. The last I could bear to watch is her Today Show interview with Matt Lauer on June 26. Deen sits like a reprimanded child next to the pinched-nosed, finger-pointing Lauer, who glares at her.

Is this what the modern world is making of its icons? There is no doubt that Deen was admired by many. Some may have even idolized her. Now, she has been reduced into an incoherent mess. To have a full society land on you like that must be devastating, especially after it had you on a pedestal for so long. I've never watched her full cooking show, but whenever I saw her, I liked her confidence. She seemed like a friendly, talented, enterprising Southern woman who was running a many-faceted business.

Here she is, with her photo on the Food Newtork, and the cute smiley she put after her name (a little adolescent, but charming):



Below is a video where she is demonstrating how to make peach cobbler. She is confident, playful and sure of her cooking:



Below is a screenshot of her from her first apology video, where is her confident, but shell-shocked:



Below is a screen shot of her rambling, second video. I think she looks like someone who has temporarily lost her sanity:



Like all celebrity women, her private life is a mess. She divorced her first husband in 1989 after twenty-four years of marriage. She married again in 2004. But her family photos (with both husbands, her sibling, and her two sons) show a jovial, happy woman, who may be running a food conglomerate, but who is still sociable and approachable.


At her prom with her first husband (to be) Jimmy Deen, in 1965.
She has been compared to Elizabeth Taylor


With her second husband, former tugboat pilot Michael Groover,
as Grand Marshall at the Tournament of Roses in Pasadena, California, 2011.
Groover started a gourmet coffee line, Captain Michael's Coffee, in 2008.


With her two sons from her first marriage.
She has opened with them a restaurant, "The Lady & Sons" in Savannah Georgia


With her brother Bubba. He is accused of "sexual harrasment" and racism by employees.
Does he have the face of evil, as some would like to paint him?

So this what a white woman is reduced to in a culture that idolizes blacks. She may not fully realize what happened to her, or find a way to respond to all those "allegations," but people are watching, and especially white people. The idiots like Lauer will forever hold their indignant glare, but others will realize the demonization that is taking place, and will react to a country that is holding them guilty without any chance of showing their innocence.

Publishers are cancelling the publication of her new book, saying that it is a business decision:

When Walmart, Target and J. C. Penney all announced they are discontinuing their Paula Deen business, including books, it is awfully tough to stay the course of a publication. It was a business decision...

But ordinary white Americans brought her other cookbooks up to the #1 spot on Amazon.com after Deen hit the prime time news these past few weeks.

Mainstream publishers and retailers may be dropping her books and products, but her supporters will find new ways to promote her work, and continue her franchises. This may take time, and it may include much smaller venues. It looks like America may indeed eventually follow Lawrence Auster's idea of separation:

Those who identify with the former American nation and still want to be part of an American nation must separate themselves from the leftist USA and create new communities and new political expressions suitable for Americans. Until such communities are created, the separation can only be mental and spiritual. But that is the necessary starting point.

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"My Brother the Jihadist": From White Middle-Class to Muslim Jihadist The Ummah's Expansion is Accelerating

Richard/aka Salahuddin Al-Britani
A working class white boy from Weymouth
[Image Source: Daily Mail]

The PBS documentary My Brother the Islamist (or My Brother the Jihadist in other versions) describes the trajectory of a white lower-middle class young man from his very British background to that of a Muslim bomb-plotter. The full video is on view here, but I tried to understand what would compel Richard Dart, an ordinary young Brit, to leave his family and his society to join a religion where he would train to kill.

Richard Dart was arrested (in 2012)...

after police seized computers from his home address in Ealing following long surveillance.

Evidence showed the men [Dart and fellow Jihadist Imran Mahmood] discussed targeting [Royal] Wootton Bassett, the Wiltshire town where residents paid their respects to repatriated [bodies of] British troops killed in Afghanistan from 2007 until September 2011.

Dart and Mahmood discussed...

not only blowing up returning soldiers, but also grieving families as war dead were repatriated through the royal town.

A short (partial) transcript below of the film My Brother the Jihadist describes how Robb Leech, the very competent director of the film and Richard Dart's step-brother, started his quest to understand his brother's conversion to Islam. Richard now goes by the name Salahuddin Al-Britanni.

Leech Voice-Over:

[Salahuddin is] no ordinary Muslim. He's a white, middle class twenty-seven year-old from a sea-side town in Dorset. He's also my step-brother.

Rich and I are both from Weymouth. We were born and raised here. It is a typical sea-side town. Rich left for London five years ago, and didn't come back. I stayed...

Just a year ago, I could never have imagined how our lives would take such different paths.

This [referring to an interview footage] is Salahuddin. Although I've always known him as Richard...

We were close growing up. Being a year older than me, I looked up to him. But after his move, we grew apart. Our family holiday to Cyprus in 2008 was the last time I saw Richard. we shared a room and talked late into the night about God and the Universe.

He was clearly looking for something. A year later, he'd found it.

I came across an article about radical Islamist Anjem Choudary. Someone who believes in imposing a world-wide Islamic state. And dubbed the most dangerous man in Britain. Four paragraphs down was Richard's name, and that of our hometown, Weymouth. He'd become one of Choudry's newest converts.

Rich talked of his willingness to fight and die for his beliefs, his hatred of the West, and his desire to impose Sharia law and make Britain an Islamic state.

Even now, my family is still struggling trying to come to terms with it all. And its why I'm making this film. To help us understand. [From the beginning of the video to about the 3 minute point]

Later on, we get a glimpse into the turning points of other lower-middle class/middle class white British men and their conversion to Islam:

Leech Voice Over:

I was surprised to find so many Muslim sisters [white women] in veils heading up the protest. But more surprising is the number of white brothers. I honestly thought Rich would be unique. But they're everywhere. So what connects them? And why have they turned their backs on the Western world?

Abdullah Dean (formerly known as Dean):

"What actually brought me to Islam was my sister died of a cocaine overdose, at the age of eighteen. And I say that if this society is prepared to look after the youngsters, then you have to look after these people in the society, and not introduce them to that life style.

Zakariah (formerly known as Charles):

Basically what spurred me into reading about Islam was George Bush...He said "You're either with us or you're not. Well I'm not with him. He's a liar, for a start. Not long after September 11th, I became a Muslim."

Leech Voice Over:

I was struggling, and failing, to think of an equivalent moment for Rich.

Rich's malaise was more stretched-out, and a general malaise at his existence and the lifestyle he saw around him. He thought Islam would make it all better.

The film, although purporting to expose "radical Islamism," is a good account of the lives and conversions to Islam of white British men, and their existential crises which directed them to embrace Islam, and to die for Allah.

When humans are bereft of a belief system, a higher order which satisfactorily explains their existence to them, they will invariably look for one. Modern Christianity has done a miserable job of saving people from Islam and safeguarding them from its predatory methods.

I looked at the demographics for Weymouth, the town where Robb and Richard grew up.

Here is some information from various sources:

1. From: The Weymouth and Portland 2009 Office for National Statistics [pdf file: p. 23]:

Ethnicity:

White - 94.35%
British White - 91.04%
Black Minority Ethnic groups: 8.97%

2. From: 2011 Census, Key Statistics for Local Authorities in England and Wales. Office for National Statistics. 2012.

Religion:

Bhuddist: 0.4%
Christian: 61%
Hindu: 0.1%
Jewish: 0.1%
Muslim: 0.5%
No Religion: 29.3%
Other: 0.7%
Sikh: 0.1%
Not Stated: %7.9

The most outstanding thing about these demographics is that the town, in 2009, is 94% white, and in 2011 is barely 1% Muslim. I doubt that these demographics changed much over the following few years.

But, there is something equally glaring. When asked their religious affiliation in 2011, close to one third of the Weymouth/Portland population said "No Religion" and 8% did not state a religion. About 40% of the population, close to half, does not associate with any kind of religion. Given the weak nature of the Church of England, the 61% who do say they are Christian (who are most likely predominantly the Protestant British) probably do it for cultural and (weak) traditional reasons.

Host Steve Paiken of the Canadian news program The Agenda recently interviewed Garry Wills in Christianity without Priests (here is the video to the episode).

The table below describing church attendance went up during the interview, from a table posted on the program (around the 27-29 minute points):

Whose Up and whose down:
Christian Orthodox +1:4.8%
Roman Catholic:-0.5%
Anglican: -19.85%
United: -29.3%

Paiken commented on the table that George Weigel, a Catholic writer whom Paiken had interviewed earlier in his show said (here is the video of Weigel's interview: Does Christianity Need a Church):

"The religions that require more from you are doing better. And the religions that are more liberal and...require less from you are fading."

Islam knows this very well. And it makes demands, huge demands, on its followers. It also looks for those who are searching for certainties and expectations.

Dart left Weymouth, and his family, for London. It was soon after that he "converted" to Islam. He became an easy target for Islam: a young man in existential crisis, looking for something to fill the void of God.

Islam's proselytism works well within communities and with individuals where religion has been abandoned, or where it no longer has strict expectations. The Anglican community fits this description. Dart and Leech came from a community where 29% of the population says it has no religion. And being an English community, the majority of those that would associate with some kind of religion would be Anglicans, which is seeing a 20% decline in church attendance. So, not only would religion be downplayed in a community like Weymouth, but those who follow any kind of Protestant Christianity would practice is far less often, as seen by general church attendance.

I would think that Dart's and Leech's parents, who lived lived more sophisticated intellectual life of teachers, would not give much importance to religion. They would fit well the statistics of Anglicans who's church attendance has declined, and who would respond to the "no religion" options of the survey. And that is how they would most likely have brought up their sons.

In fact, Leech says in his film:

Our family holiday to Cyprus in 2008 was the last time I saw Richard. we shared a room and talked late into the night about God and the Universe.

He was clearly looking for something. A year later, he'd found it.

Dart was twenty-five then. By the time he was twenty-six, he had found Islam, or Islam had found him.

He moved to London, to the Borough of Ealing, where he worked as a security guard.

According to the Office of National Statistics, UK’s largest independent producer of official statistics, the ethnic make-up of Ealing is as follows:

White
White British: 44.9%
White Irish: 4.8%
White other: 9.1%

Mixed
White & Black Caribbean: 1.0%
White & Black African: 0.5%
White & Asian: 1.2%
Mixed other: 1.0%

Asian or Asian British
Indian: 16.5%
Pakistani: 3.8%
Bangladeshi: 0.4%
Other Asian: 3.9%

Black or Black British
Caribbean: 4.5%
African: 3.7%
Black other: 0.6%

Chinese or other
Chinese: 1.2%

Other ethnic group: 3.1%

[The area, population and ethnic breakdown figures (all from the 2001 Census with 2010 mid-year population estimates* revised by ONS). *These statistics were compiled before the release of the 2011 Census data.]

Although Ealing's whites make up a majority of about 2/3 of the population, there is still a large, and most likely vocal and aggressive, Asian population of 24%, or almost 1/4 of the population. This is where the confused, searching, Dart would have found his "answers."

Dart says in My Brother the Jihadist:

The worst of the Muslims is better than the best of the Kaffir...That is why the Kaffar will be held in fire for eternity.

Not only did Allah create the world, he also gave us a law and a way to live in order to prepare ourselves for the day of judgment.

Dart:

...changed his name to Salahuddin al-Britani, became involved in extremism after moving from his home town Weymouth to east London and fraternising with radical preacher Anjem Choudary. [Source: Daily Mail]

He:

...pleaded guilty to preparing for terrorism or assisting another in terrorism, between July 2010 and July [2012] at the Old Bailey today.[Source: Sun UK]

Dart's preparation for the day of judgment has began. His six years in prison will only prepare him for other acts he will perform, violent or not, in order to prove his worth for Allah's paradise.

Steve Paiken asks George Weigel:

What is the harm in just being spiritual as opposed to going to church every Sunday and taking on sacraments etc.?"

Weigel answers:

Finally, the harm Steve, it doesn't take you out of the great loneliness of modernity. Modernity and post-modernity tend to be very lonely places.

Paiken:

Not for everybody

Weigel:

Well, for a lot of people. I've walked up University Avenue today in Toronto, from City Hall to the Provincial Parliament, and fully half of the people walking past are living in their own little pod world with ear things in their ears. There's no human connection there...This has been a constant theme of philosophers, psychologists, sociologists for two hundred and fifty years. There is some, there is a break down of human community throughout the Western world, in all of its various forms. The phenomenon described by Robert Putnam in that famous article Bowling Alone, and that is part of what the church can offer people, I mean the Church in its broadest sense. It offers a community of people, many of whom are confused, not fully convinced, searchers, as the lingo would have it, but who nonetheless find in the presence of others a way to satisfy that yearning for the transcendent. That wish for an attachment to something larger than "me, myself and I."

It was this desire for something bigger than "me, myself and I" that induced the searching Dart to give himself over to Islam.

I would expect that over the years, conversions of white, nominally Christian men and women to Islam will only increase.


Cleric Anjem Choudary presides over Richard's conversion to Islam.
Choudary called Dart's Jihadist actions as "an act of resistance" and
that Dart was victim of the Britain's "oppressive" legal system.

Anjem Choudary is a British-born former solicitor, and head of the banned group Islam4UK which he formed after its predecessor, al-Muhajiroun, was also banned. He became the Islamic cleric that guided Dart's spiritual life.

Dart had tried to obtain terrorist training in Pakistani camps

...having been told by [Choudary] that ‘Jihad training’ is a duty for Muslim men.

Dart had consequently visited Pakistan

...for terrorist training, although [he] were unsuccessful in that aim.

The most recent news on Dart is from his court appearance where

...Dart refused to stand when he was sentenced, saying: "I don't wish to stand up. I believe ruling and judging is only for Allah."

Dart was preparing to travel to Mecca for Hajj:

The documentary finishes with Dart travelling to Mecca to go on pilgrimage, talking about a demonstration called "British Soldiers Can Burn In Hell," planned while he was away.

He was a good Muslim.
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Richard Dart (left), before his conversion to Islam,
with Robb Leech, his step-brother and filmmaker of My Brother the Islamist.
Dart looks like the "proper" of the two, with his well-groomed hair and
shaved face. His Western religion and culture ultimately betrayed him,
leaving him to look for structure and stability elsewhere, in Islam.
[Image Source: Daily Mail]


Robb Leech (left) with his camera, while filming the documentary My Brother the Jihadist
Richard Dart in Muslim clothes.
The brothers are still "close"
[Image Source: Daily Mail]


Weymouth, where Richard Dart grew up
[Image Source: Coastal Connect]


Weymmouth's Queen Victoria's Jubilee Clock
[Image Source: Wikipapia]

Erected in 1887 to mark the 50th year of Queen Victoria's reign the Jubilee Clock was originally positioned on a stone base on Weymouth sands, but in the 1920s the Esplanade was built around it to protect the sands from the encroachment of shingle from the eastern end of the beach. [Source: Wikipedia]

The Royal Hotel on Weymouth seafront, showing Georgian architecture
[Image source: Regency History]

Formerly a port city and bathing place of George III, Weymouth has now expanded into the second best resort in England with its safe bathing beach, picturesque harbour, new shopping centre, wide choice of accommodation, restaurants, pubs, cafes and ice cream parlours. The sandy beach is superb offering facilities such as swing boats, trampolines, volleyball court and Weymouth's famous sand modeller. With excellent wind conditions all year round the waters of Weymouth Bay and Portland Harbour attract wind-surfers, dinghy sailors, and divers. The Sea Life Park's marine displays reveal the fascinating under water habitats and at The Deep Sea Adventure and Sharky's children can jump, swing, slide and climb in the adventure play zone while adults take in the Titanic exhibition on the upper floors.

Weymouth is located 199 km away from London. [Source: TravelOnline]

Richard Dart, with his step brother filmmaker Robb Leech as young boys, close friends
growing up in the sea-side town of Weymouth. Dart is on the right.
[Image Source: Daily Mail]
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