Paula Deen tweeted out an old photo this morning that proves she doesn't understand racism. The photos, from 2011, portray Paula Deen as a scarlet-haired Lucille Ball. Next to her is her son Bobby in brownface, meant to portray Ball's real-life and TV husband Desi Arnaz/Ricky Ricardo. Arnaz was a Cuban-born American. 
 
 Somehow, Deen doesn't understand that brownface is never okay. It wasn't okay in 2011 and it's not okay in 2015. 
 
 Update 7/7/15; 5:34 p.m. EST: Paula Deen deleted the offensive tweet and has fired her social media manager, reports EW. Deen's camp released this statement: "Paula immediately had this picture taken down as soon as she saw the post and apologizes to all who were offended. As such, Paula Deen Ventures has terminated their relationship with this social media manager." ||||| For more of black Twitter, check out The Chatterati on The Root and follow The Chatterati on Twitter. 
 
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 After everything she’s experienced over the past two years, celebrity chef Paula Deen — or whoever runs her social media accounts — still, somehow thought it was a good idea to post this tweet on Tuesday in which she appeared as Lucille Ball and her son, Bobby Deen, was Dezi Arnaz (as Ricky Ricardo), complete with brownface. The photo was quickly deleted but captured for posterity by BuzzFeed: 
 
 The post was intended to mark #TransformationTuesday, which, according to Urban Dictionary is “yet another dumb ass excuse to post random stupid bull shit on Facebook.” 
 
 Deen was infamously fired from the Food Network after a lawsuit revealed she had used the “n-word” against black employees in the past. In a tear-filled interview on the Today show, Deen insisted she’s not “racist,” adding, “I is what I is and I’m not changing.” 
 
 In the months since, she has attempted to relaunch her career with a new show on the cable channel Evine Live and the subscription-based Paul Deen Network online video service. 
 
 “I learned the power of words, how they have the ability to hurt and once you say certain words you can’t un-ring it, not even 30 years later,” Deen said in a follow-up interview with Today last fall. 
 
 Now, she just needs to learn the power of pictures. 
 
 [Photo via screengrab] 
 
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 The onetime Southern cooking queen-turned-nationally-shamed-casual-racist has managed to throw herself into boiling water with a tweet (since deleted) featuring a photo of her and her son Bobby dressed up as Lucy and Ricky Ricardo from I Love Lucy. This might be cute, were Bobby a man of Hispanic descent. 
 
 He is not. 
 
 While generally egregious, the brownface is particularly terrible here because of Bobby's unpainted hands held up to his head. Quite clearly, his facial skin is a different shade than the rest of himself. This isn't just self-tanner gone wrong: It is racism, as plain as, well, the brown on his face. 
 
 On her Facebook page (where she also posted and later deleted the photo, because Deen can't make a mistake in just one place), she clarified the shoot was for an episode. 
 
 At first, it could be presumed it was for her new cable TV show. But according to Yahoo, the photo is actually from a 2011 episode of Paula's Best Dishes, her now-defunct Food Network show. This would seem to be true: There's even a 2011 photo of Bobby Deen getting made up in brownface on her Facebook page. 
 
 "We had so much fun on this episode, y'all," she told her Facebook fans when re-posting the brownface picture. "I just had to share this photo with you!" The question now, of course, is why Deen felt it necessary to share a photo of her son in brownface four years after the fact. Certainly there were more appropriate #TransformationTuesday options, Paula! 
 
 The Facebook comments before the post was taken down were, as could be expected, totally oblivious. 
 
 Deen clearly learned absolutely nothing from her previous time on the hot plate of controversy. Her 2013 admission that she uses the N-word, and once almost hired black waiters and waitresses to dress up like "slaves" for her brother Bubba's wedding, should have removed her from public view forever. It didn't take long after her return to TV, however, to bake herself into a biscuit of drama once again. 
 
 While her fans on Facebook may remain mostly supportive, that hasn't stopped Twitter from coming for her once again. 
 
 The posts may have been taken down, but Deen remains silent on social channels now. It remains to be seen if she'll respond — and if so, what her bizarre, teary apology will look like this time. 
 
 July 7, 2015, 2:44 p.m.: This story has been updated. ||||| This fuckin’ family. Update: Deen deleted the dumb tweet after the internet yelled at her, but we saved a screenshot. 
 
 
 
 Paula Deen, whose life mission is to gradually murder the entire American populace with buttermilk, should know better. Not just because it’s 2015 and Jesus God how many times have we posted a “local idiot posts picture in blackface” story, but because she’s gotten in trouble for being a backwards bigot so many times before. 
 
 My take? Maybe, just maybe, Paula Deen didn’t really mean all those teary apologies, and maybe actually is a big deep fat-fried racist. Her dumbass son, too. 
 
 Update: Deen’s tweet has been deleted, so we have replaced the embed with a screenshot of it in the post above.
– Paula Deen is making headlines in all the wrong ways today after she (or a staffer) tweeted an old photo of her decked out as Lucille Ball and son Bobby—in brownface—as Desi Arnaz. The tweet for #TransformationTuesday read "Lucyyyyyyy! You got a lot of esplainin’ to do!" and was deleted without explanation once the Internet got hold of it. The flap comes about two years after Deen's controversy over the n-word. Reaction: Eater: "Somehow, Deen doesn't understand that brownface is never okay," writes Daniela Galarza, who notes that the photo is actually from 2011. "It wasn't okay in 2011 and it's not okay in 2015." Gawker: "Maybe, just maybe, Paula Deen didn’t really mean all those teary apologies, and maybe actually is a big deep fat-fried racist," writes Sam Biddle. The Root: "Just so dumb," writes Yesha Callahan. "So, so dumb." Mic.com: "This isn't just self-tanner gone wrong: It is racism, as plain as, well, the brown on his face," writes Kevin O'Keeffe. Mediaite: She told us she'd learned all about the "power of words" to hurt people. "Now, she just needs to learn the power of pictures," writes Matt Wilstein.