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He says he’s not anti-Mexican. He says he appreciates his Mexican fanbase--but Katt Williams isn’t apologizing for a conversation critics say, got a little too racial. (Youtube/UrbanAZ)
“You dont know what my family did for this country b**** you ain’t done s*** n**** we were slaves, you all just work like that landscaper’s mother f*****. Do you remember when white people used to say people used to say ‘go back to Africa’ and we had to tell them ‘we don’t want to?’ so if you love Mexico b****get the f***over there.”
Williams says the cheering crowd was mainly Mexican-American, and that the heckler he was speaking to was making anti-American comments, but that didn’t stop his publicist from issuing an apology. New York Daily News has it...
"My remarks were not meant to be offensive. I want to apologize if my comedy act was taken out of context... I sincerely appreciate my fans within the Mexican community and would never intentionally go out of my way to offend them."
But Williams told CNN, not only did he not write the apology, he didn’t mean to apologize at all. He says, he was just being patriotic.
“I don’t think I need to apologize for being pro-American he was saying that all of this is still Mexico and I was just giving him geography. [FLASH] As a stand up, the only thing I sell is uncensored thought. I’m only selling them the way I think uncensored so I’m not allowed to then come back the next day and apologize, thats for the Tracy Morgans of the world.”
Free speech or not -- some , like a writer for The Stir says-- Williams had it right the first time and should’ve stuck with the apology.
“If Williams wants to be a patriot, he needs to embrace the melting pot culture and remember we all started somewhere. Even Mexican-Americans. So how about sticking to the apology that he claims was issued by someone else... and write this debacle off as bad improv?”
Finally, a writer for Hispanically Speaking News disagrees saying, although he may get a little flack from fellow hispanics, he thinks Williams had a good point.
“When I thought about what Katt was actually saying... I realized that I agreed with most of it, if not all of it. I wave the Puerto Rican flag during the annual celebrations and sport my Honduran jersey whenever there’s a good soccer game on TV, but I consider myself an American first and foremost. I think that’s what Katt was trying to say on Saturday, although he said it like a belligerent idiot.”
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