When video Matt Rowan initially claimed it was not him, from a broadcaster who broadcast a racial break on a streaming platform of a girls’ basketball game in Oklahoma. Rowan, the owner of the OSPN streaming platform that aired Thursday’s game (in association with the NFHS Network) and one of the broadcasters in the stream, initially told the Oklahoma publication. The Border in a telephone interview Friday that he was not the one who made the remark after seeing the girls team of Norman High School kneeling during the national anthem. But a few hours later, Rowan issued a statement through his lawyer saying he was commenting, not his colleague Scott Sapulpa. In this statement, Rowan blames his blood sugar levels:
The broadcaster that made the racist remarks partly blames it for low blood sugar. pic.twitter.com/6cTwIZdJZI
– Dylan Goforth (@ DGoforth918) 12 March 2021
There is a lot of bad excuse bingo here (it is not at all relevant to your decision to say a racial slurp if you have children, were a youth pastor or are a member of a church; if anything, leave those people and groups look worse by emphasizing your association with them), but the remark about diabetes and blood sugar rising seems particularly ridiculous, especially when it comes to “I do not believe I would make such heinous statements without my sugar.” There are countless people who deal with diabetes without ever uttering racial insults, and the “I do not believe I would have made such horrible statements without my sugar dots” feels as if Rowan is trying to evade responsibility for his actions here. He said that a terrible thing was thinking that listeners could not hear him (this has happened before), caught and tried to blame it on blood sugar. This is not a good look.
[ReadFrontier.org]