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The reporter asks: "Are you a racist?"
"No I'm not," he replies. "I'm not a racist. I never should have said what I said, it was wrong. I'm embarrassed by it. A lot of people need to realise you inherit things from your environment. Where I grew up was South Tampa, a really rough neighbourhood, a very low income, my friends, we greeted each other using that word, or it was thrown around like it was nothing..."
Is it fair to say that you inherited a racial bias?
"I would say that is very fair. The environment I grew up in, all my white friends, all my black friends, to hear the word on a daily basis..."
He asks his fans around the world "oh my gosh, please forgive me."
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