Paula Deen is being blasted for the black woman used on her website. Deen is being called a racist again, due the picture of an African-American woman featured on the website, Lady & Sons, one of her restaurants located in Georgia.
A group on Facebook dubbed For Black Women ONLY, is calling Paula Deen racist, and they are demanding that she removes the picture of an African-American woman featured in the image on the Lady & Sons’ website.
The photo features a black woman in an apron, standing in front of the Lady & Sons’ restaurant, holding and ringing a dinner bell. The image was added to the site in order to draw attention to the restaurant’s new hours.
But For Black Women ONLY, it shows a “mammy figure,” just like in the days when slavery existed and a black/negro servant let the white and rich family know that it was dinner time in the plantation by ringing a bell.
In a post entitled “BLACK WOMEN: we have to “LET MAMMY DIE” BLACK/WOMEN: TAKE 100% CONTROL OF YOUR IMAGE!!!,” the group wrote:
“To us, this ad for Paula Deen’s restaurant evokes images of slavery when our women ancestors would cook for their masters and ring a bell (similar to this one) to alert the family that their meal was ready. Paula Deen longs for the antebellum south when Blacks, especially black women were non-threatening servants.”
You can read the entire post below:
This is the last thing Deen wants, since embarking on her apology tour after being caught using the n-word and admitting to wanting a plantation style wedding for her brother.
A representative for Deen has issued a statement saying that the ad has been up on the site for the last five years, and the woman featured in it has been working in the restaurant for the last 17 years, and is like family to Deen.
