Davis, a cornerback for the Buccaneers, said he thought the term meant "lame."
Buccaneers cornerback Carlton Davis apologized Sunday night roughly two hours after he tweeted an anti-Asian slur. Davis wrote "Gotta stop letting g***s in Miami," at 6:42 p.m. ET and then deleted the post shortly after but screenshots were captured.
Davis
tweeted an apology at 9:01 p.m. ET and explained he didn't know it was an anti-Asian slur but thought it meant someone who was "lame." The 24-year-old also tweeted what he thought it 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 meant to hurt anyone during a time when violence and racism against Asians is high.
"I used a term that from where I come from has always meant 'lame,' but I did not realize it had a much darker, negative connotation," he said in the Tweet. "I have learned a valuable lesson and want to apologize to anyone that was offended by seeing that word because we need to focus on helping each other during these tough times."
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