BOOKS: Paula Deen Takes Top Spot on Amazon Best-Seller List

Why is this interesting? Well, because she gained fame over the past week for doing this:

The Southern TV cook has faced widespread outrage and dwindling endorsement deals since a deposition was released last week in which she admitted to using a racial slur for African-Americans in the past, and discussed her wish to mount a “true Southern plantation-style” wedding.

True Southern plantation-style, eh? Well, here’s a text about life on a Southern plantation in 1854.

To make things even more distasteful—this:

In addition, five of the Top 10 books on the Amazon’s movers and shakers list of books that have jumped the most in the past 24 hours are Deen-related.

It seems racism is the new black (pun intended).