Buccaneer’s cornerback Carlton Davis apologized Sunday night about two hours after tweeting an anti-Asian slur. Davis wrote “Gotta stop g *** s in Miami,” at 6:42 PM ET and deleted the post shortly after, but screenshots were taken.
Davis tweeted an apology at 9:01 PM ET and explained that he didn’t know it was an anti-Asian slur, but thought it meant someone who was “crippled.” The 24-year-old also tweeted what he thought was a word used in South Florida, saying he would remove it from his vocabulary.
Davis, who attended high school in Miami, added that he never intended to hurt anyone at a time when violence and racism against Asians are high.
“I used a term where I come from that always meant ‘crippled,’ but I didn’t realize it had a much darker, negative connotation,” he said in the Tweet. “I learned a valuable lesson and would like to apologize to anyone who was offended by seeing that word as we should focus on helping each other in these difficult times.”
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