Rev. Jesse Jackson: Paula Deen Can Be 'Redeemed'
CHICAGO -- Civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson says he's agreed to help celebrity chef Paula Deen try to make amends for her past use of a racial slur, saying she shouldn't become a "sacrificial lamb" over the issue of racial intolerance.
Jackson told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Deen called him this week, and they discussed how she might recover. Jackson says if Deen is willing to acknowledge mistakes and make changes, "she should be reclaimed rather than destroyed."
Jackson says he's more troubled by racial disparities in jobs, lending, health care, business opportunities and the criminal justice system.
Her admission of using the slur first came in a lawsuit deposition. It later cost her an endorsement deal with Smithfield Foods and her job with the Food Network.
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He would have made a great President.
He was there the day Dr. King was killed.
And he is, like all good religious people, wanting to help out those, even if those they help are directly against those that
try to help.
Of course, Rev. Jackson has been vilified in the past, but it goes without saying that Jerry Brown would have won the 1992 election had they won in NYC and as such, the smear against the Rev. Jackson by the republicans and Ed Koch(shame on Ed, after the smear that was thrown at him years earlier), cost Jerry and Jesse the nomination.
It is very charitable of Rev. Jackson. He is too good.
it is more than Paula (I is what I is) Deen should have.
I am proud of Rev. Jackson, but then I have been since day one.
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...is to convince others to renounce their racist ways. The alternative is this. 
But not being a member of any minority, my outlook itself may be prejudiced.
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