HollywoodNews.com: Former ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ star Danielle Staub once made a huge deal about being a gay advocate, but then she hung out with someone who used offensive terms and now she has dropped a racial slur of her own.
Staub was recently interviewed about being on a new reality TV show related to the food industry, states Fox.
She began speaking about her love of food and eating when she dropped the slur: “I knew my heritage was Italian, and I hated the American food my parents made. So I learned to hang with my Guinea friends and whenever I would taste a dish I would go to the store and reproduce the dish.”
The term “Guinea” is reportedly a racial slur against Italian-Americans and did cause some backlash.
John Marino, National Executive Director at the National Italian American Foundation (Niaf), commented, “It’s an offensive...
Staub was recently interviewed about being on a new reality TV show related to the food industry, states Fox.
She began speaking about her love of food and eating when she dropped the slur: “I knew my heritage was Italian, and I hated the American food my parents made. So I learned to hang with my Guinea friends and whenever I would taste a dish I would go to the store and reproduce the dish.”
The term “Guinea” is reportedly a racial slur against Italian-Americans and did cause some backlash.
John Marino, National Executive Director at the National Italian American Foundation (Niaf), commented, “It’s an offensive...
- 5/25/2011
- by Molly Sullivan
- Hollywoodnews.com
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