Paula Deen will mentor 100 fatherless black young men on her new ‘Old South’ theme park in Savannah, Georgia it was revealed yesterday.
After watching the searingly painful drama 12 Years A Slave which features Solomon Northup being kidnapped then subjected to the inhuman life as a captive laborer, Deen thought it would be a great idea to subject today’s blacks to the same treatment in her new business venture.
Paula’s new theme park will take paying patrons back to the ‘glory days of a 19th century Georgian cotton plantation with attractions and rides that evoke the beauty and gentility of the Antebellum period’.
The 100 young men will carry out a variety of tasks to help set-up the theme park with some of the lucky ones getting the opportunity to gain full-time employment in the park once it opens.
Deen said: “I will teach these boys the meaning of hard work as well as discipline by running a strict regime of grueling, back-breaking toil followed by occasional meals of pig bones and cornmeal then a good night’s sleep in an outhouse on a bed made of floor.
“That’s the kind of mentoring my grandpappy gave to his niggras and I fully intend to do the same.”
Patrons at the park can enjoy a tour of the plantation house, blackface minstrel shows, bare-knuckle slave boxing, a cotton-picking-themed rollercoaster ride and a mock-lynching staged at 3pm everyday in the park town square.
They can also purchase a ‘slave for a day’.
In addition to the harsh mentoring Deen will teach the boys how to cook speciality dishes such as deep-fried, butter-fed and butter-soaked chicken with roast butter cubes in a butter sauce with a side order of butter shavings and butter-fried bread.
Once the young men complete their mentoring Deen hopes they will not be free to leave.
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