“Eight months after her fall from Southern grace, celebrity chef Paula Deen is looking to make a comeback. In People magazine’s cover story this week, Deen said that she’s “fighting to get my name back” after an admission of using the N-word brought her public shame in June. “I feel like ’embattled’ or ‘disgraced’ will always follow my name,” Deen said (and rightly so).
However, the words that followed suggest that the new and improved Deen isn’t so new and hasn’t really improved:
“It’s like that black football player who recently came out,” she said, comparing herself to the brave Michael Sam, who, if drafted, will make history as the first openly gay professional football player in America.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Prachi Gupta / Salon:
http://www.salon.com/2014/02/27/paula_deen_compares_herself_to_that_black_football_player_michael_sam/