Joe Rogan Speaks Out To Apologize After Repeatedly Using The N-Word In Viral Clip
As expected, Joe Rogan is speaking out to issue an apology for the racist language he used in episodes of his podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
As we previously reported, well-respected singer India Arie took to Instagram this week to announce that she was pulling all her music from Spotify; not because of the COVID-19 vaccine disinformation on Rogan’s podcast, but over his use of racist language. She even shared a compilation video on her Instagram Highlights, taken from past episodes of Rogan’s podcast, in which he’s says the N-word a total of 22 times.
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According to NME, Spotify has quietly removed 70 episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” following Arie’s post which has also gone viral. Rogan has responded to the backlash in an IG video where he apologizes for his comments: “The most regretful and shameful thing I’ve ever had to talk about publicly,” Rogan, 54, insisted. He claimed the video consisted of “out of context” snippets from “12 years of conversations” on his show: “It looks f–king horrible. Even to me, He continued, “I know that to most people, there is no context where a white person is ever allowed to say that word, never mind publicly on a podcast, and I agree with that now. I haven’t said it in years.”
“Instead of saying ‘the N-word,’ I would just say the word. I thought as long as it was in context, people would understand what I was doing. It’s a very unusual word, but it’s not my word to use,” he continued. “I never used it to be racist, because I’m not racist, but whenever you’re in a situation where you have to say ‘I’m not racist,’ you’ve f–ked up, and I clearly have f–cked up.”
While speaking about the clip of him referring to a black neighborhood as “Planet of the Apes,” after seeing the movie with friends in Philadelphia he said, “I was trying to make the story entertaining,” Rogan claimed. “I did not, nor did I ever say that black people are apes, but it sure f–king sounded like that. It wasn’t a racist story, but it sounded terrible.”
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