Buccaneers cornerback Carlton Davis apologized on Sunday night, about two hours after he tweeted an anti-Asian slander. Davis wrote “I have to stop leaving g *** s in Miami,” at 6:42 pm (Eastern Time) and then deleted the post, but screenshots were captured.
Davis tweeted an apology at 9:01 pm ET and explained that he didn’t know it was an anti-Asian slander, but he thought it meant someone “lame”. The 24-year-old also tweeted what he thought was a word used in South Florida and said he would remove it from his vocabulary.
Davis, who attended high school in Miami, added that he never intended to hurt anyone during a time when violence and racism against Asians is high.
“I used a term that I always came from meant ‘lame’, but I didn’t realize it had a much more dark and negative connotation,” he said in Tweet. “I learned a valuable lesson and I want to apologize to anyone who took offense at seeing that word, because we need to focus on helping each other in these difficult times.”
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