Carlton Davis, the buccaneers’ corner, apologized Sunday night, about two hours after he posted an anti-Asian insult on Twitter. Davis wrote “We must stop leaving men in Miami” at 18:42 ET and then deleted the message shortly, but the screenshots were captured.
Davis posted an excuse on Twitter at 21:01 ET and he explained to me that he didn’t know it was an anti-Asian insult, but he thought it meant someone who was “lame.” The 24-year-old also posted a tweet about what he thought was a word used in South Florida and said he would remove it from his vocabulary.
Davis, who went to high school in Miami, added that he never intended to hurt anyone at a time when violence and racism against Asians are high.
“I used a term that, where I come from, always meant ‘lame’, but I didn’t realize that it has a much darker and negative connotation,” he said in a tweet. “I learned a valuable lesson and I want to apologize to anyone who was offended at seeing that word, because we need to focus on helping each other in these difficult times.”
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