Paula Deen has had a great impact on Savannah, Georgia in recent years. As she rose to fame, people got in long lines daily to visit her local restaurant.
Background: Deen grew up poor near Albany, Georgia, a city Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called one of the most racist he’d ever encountered during his travails to bring the South into modernity. And King protested in places such as Mississippi, whose obstinacy singer Nina Simone famously labeled with the expletive “god-damn.” Deen’s Savannah restaurant is a destination for many tourists, and tourists spend money in other local businesses while in the vicinity. To bring her down would hurt Savannah, too. There’s a lot at economic stake here.
Read the full story by Lee R. Haven at This Week in Blackness.
Have you eaten at one of Paula’s restaurants, would you now?
