Paula Deen: I’m like ‘that black football player who recently came out’

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34. The Advice She Needs

Someone needs to tell her to stop talking and just cook. Also, someone needs to tell her to stop trying to play the victim. Her problem is that that she has been treated differently than anyone else; it is that she did not just apologize and move on with her life. She gave her apology, but then she blamed everyone except herself.

I think her biggest mistake was going on the Today Show and claiming she used the n-word because a black man had robbed the bank at which she worked and black youth in her restaurant had used the word. She also made the claim that the only reason the issue had been brought up was because people wanted what she had. I think if she had just apologized, without blaming others, and asked to move on she would have whethered the scandal better. However, she is doing really well, at this point, considering the deal she recently signed.