On Wednesday, Jennings tweeted, “Hey, I just wanted to admit the fact that, over the years on Twitter, I definitely tweeted some uninspiring and insensitive things.”
“Sometimes they acted like jokes in my head and I was dismayed to see how they read on the screen,” he wrote. “In the past, I usually left bad tweets in the air just so they could be ignored. At least that way they could lead to smart responses and even advocacy. Deleting them was like hiding a mistake.”
“Sometimes I said stupid things in a stupid way and I want to apologize to people who were (rightly!) Offended,” said another tweet. “It wasn’t my intention to hurt anyone, but it doesn’t matter: I blew it and I’m really sorry.”
Jennings ended his tweets on Wednesday looking to the future.
“If 2020 taught us anything, it is that we should be kinder to each other,” he wrote. “I’m looking forward to entering 2021 with that in mind.”