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Carlton Davis, Buccaneers’ cornerback, used an anti-Asian abuse on Twitter on Sunday night and then apologized, while also pointing out that the use of the term was nothing offensive.
On Sunday night, Davis tweeted, “Must stop letting g – ks in Miami,” with an insulting term referring in a derogatory way to Vietnamese, Korean, and Filipino people.
Davis later removed the tweet and posted an apology in which he insisted he did not know what the word meant.
“I will never offend any group of people,” Davis wrote. ‘Your reporters may be looking for another story to blow up. The term is aimed at a producer who claims to ‘drive Miami’. With that said, I will pull the word out of my vocabulary, with the difficult times our Asian family is going through. I used a term that from where I come from, always meant ‘lame’, but I did not realize that it has a much darker, negative connotation. I learned a valuable lesson and want to apologize to everyone who is offended by seeing the word, because we need to focus on helping each other in these difficult times. ”
The Asian American Journalists Association Sports Task Force issued a statement calling the group “disappointed by its sentiment, especially at a time when Asians in the United States are experiencing a sharp increase in anti-Asian hatred, which is causing harassment and attacks. resulted in.