[Content Note: Appropriation; racism.]
"I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out. He said, 'I just want to be known as a football player. I don't want to be known as a gay football player.' I know exactly what he's saying."—Paula Deen.
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA NO.
Also: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA FUCK YOU.
Here's a tip, Paula Deen: If you don't want to be forever known as That Disgraced Lady with a Cooking Show, then you have to stop doing heinous shit like comparing yourself being rightly vilified for engaging in racial discrimination to a gay man who doesn't want his identity to eclipse his career in a sport widely hostile to that identity.
And, not for nothing, Paula Deen, but if his words were so meaningful to you that you felt compelled to quote them during an interview, then maybe it was worth learning his fucking name—Michael Sam—instead of referring to him as "that black football player."
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