But the woman was allowed to ruin Deen’s career? The New York Post reports:

The woman who sliced and diced Paula Deen’s cooking empire by accusing the celebrity chef of using the N-word can’t sue her for racism — because the accuser is white.
A federal judge in Georgia threw out some of the most explosive claims by Lisa Jackson, a former manager of a Savannah restaurant owned by Deen and her brother Earl “Bubba” Hiers.
Jackson had charged that she was subjected to racist attitudes and harassment during the five years she worked at Uncle Bubba’s Seafood and Oyster House.
Despite Deen’s apologies on YouTube and a tearful interview on the “Today” show, her folksy foodie brand was ruined by the charges.
She was fired from The Food Network, on which she had three cooking shows, found that her publisher had canceled her next project — a certain best seller — and lost lucrative marketing deals with major retailers.
But yesterday, US District Court Judge William T. Moore Jr., ruled that Jackson had no grounds for playing the race card because she wasn’t the right race.
Moore agreed with Deen’s lawyers, who said Jackson lacked “standing” because as a white woman she could not show that she suffered racial discrimination. Jackson had claimed she was offended because she had biracial nieces.
But the judge said that wasn’t enough to justify a lawsuit based on the 1964 Civil Rights Act provision that bars racial discrimination in the workplace.

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