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Didn’t we tell you that we apologized to you? Oh. Well, we did.
The Events The First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs, Mississippi, refused to let a black couple marry in their church. The wedding had been scheduled for July 21, 2012. There was a rehearsal. Then...
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Talk to the coach
It’s nasty to step outside and find racist graffiti in front of your house. When Louis Orr, basketball coach at Bowling Green State University, went out on a Sunday morning and saw the words “WHITE...
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Oh Heil, not again
In Athens, Greece, a 20-year-old soccer player for AEK Athens made a winning goal in a league game against Veria. Pleased, he raced to the sidelines, pulling off his shirt as he ran, faced the crowd,...
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Racist remarks in public, apology in private?
When it came out that Arizona Senator Jeff Flake‘s kid has been using racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic language online, the Senator apologized. Speaking of 15-year-old Tanner Flake, the Republican...
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I beg you to forgive me for whatever the heck I did
This Paula Deen thing is a red-hot mess. It’s a red-hot mess rolled in powdered sugar, deep-fried, and topped with bourbon-scented whipped cream. Or take two and clap a bacon cheeseburger in between....
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Urban what was that?
Scientific American has many blogs in various scientific fields. One is The Urban Scientist, by Danielle N. Lee, a biologist specializing in the excellent fields of animal behavior, mammalogy, and...
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140 characters
Home Depot, oy. Last Thursday, at 12:24PM EST, Harvard Law student Jonathan Wall grabbed a screen shot of a horrifyingly racist, bizarre tweet from Home Depot. At 3:30 PM EST, Home Depot tweeted him...
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Comic Franchesca Ramsey (aka Chescaleigh) is best known for her video “Sh*t White Girls Say…to Black Girls” (SWGSTBG). But this video is serious-serious rather than funny-serious; it’s about how to...
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Don’t be scared! You can live in a bubble here too!
[KQED], a San Francisco Bay-area public media outlet, recently ran a cheery piece on one of their blogs, [KQED Pop]. That's a “daily blog that critically examines the social and cultural impact of...
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The Curious Incident of the Chocolate Love Monkey
Hi, SorryWatchers! This post may be unsafe for work! Recently the white author of a romance novel came under fire on social media for using the terms “Dark Chocolate Love Monkey” and “Coffee-Colored...
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Sorry if you were offended, mockable Chinese people
Making fun of people who do not speak English! Plinky plinky music! Kara-TAY! “Do they call Chinese food in China just food?” Nunchucks! Chinese herbs for “performance”! OH HO HO HO HO HO HA HA HA...
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I apologize for you taking this way too seriously!
A Facebook story! Civil servant in small-town West Virginia refers to Michelle Obama as “a Ape in heels” [sic]. Mayor of said town replies to the post: “Just made my day Pam” [sic]. National outcry...
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Sorry we assigned a racist to review your book
Inside Higher Education has an excellent account of a horrible decision made by an academic journal…and the journal’s attempt to make things right. Read the whole tale there. The (sorta?) short...
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No way, Ina May
Let’s examine two apologies for the exact same incident. One is terrible. One is excellent. But first, let me suggest we look at some adorable babies, because we’re gonna need to if we’re gonna make...
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Vote for me! I have lucid intervals!
Kimberley Paige Barnette is running as a Republican for mayor of Charlotte, NC. Last month she participated in a candidate debate and said some noteworthy things. She didn’t love the poor, whom she...
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A puzzlingly poor apology
Oh, Will Shortz, no. SorryWatch loves the New York Times Crossword. SorryWatch does not love the apology for the use of an ethnic slur in a recent puzzle. Here’s editor Shortz’s apology: I’m very...
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Welp, this is racist and terrible
Hahahahaha, let’s all pose in coolie hats and do ching-chong eye-stretchy karate-y things! Let’s encourage this small child to participate merrily and racistly in our racist merriment! Eater explains...
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What he meant to say
Around 1910, a man who had recently become a grandfather learned that his grandchild was seriously ill and had to go to the hospital. His daughter, the child’s mother, was beside herself with worry,...
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So many afternoons spoiled
SorryWatch enjoyed Kliph Nesteroff’s book We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans in Comedy, and we weren’t even expecting to find any apologies. The title’s from...
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Show me the whole picture
When thinking about the climate crisis – or when not thinking about the climate crisis, just minding your business – it can be hard to remember that despite the personalized nature of weather, we all...
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