Buccaneers cornerback Carlton Davis apologized for two hours on Sunday night after tweeting an anti-Asian failure. Davis wrote at 18:42 ET: ‘Must stop leaving g *** s in Miami’, and then deleted the message shortly afterwards, but screenshots were captured.
Davis tweeted an apology at 21:01 ET and explained that he does not know that this is an anti-Asian failure, but that he means someone who is ‘lame’. The 24-year-old also tweeted what he said was a word in South Florida, saying he would remove it from his vocabulary.
Davis, who went to high school in Miami, added that he never intended to hurt anyone in a time when violence and racism against Asians are rampant.
“I used a term that always meant ‘lame’ from where I came from, but I did not realize it had a much darker, negative connotation,” he said in the Tweet. “I learned a valuable lesson and would like to apologize to everyone who was offended by seeing the word, because we need to focus on helping each other during these difficult times.”
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