Andrew Yang apologizes for saying Joe Rogan isn't racist because he works with Black people

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Source: NBC News via AOL

Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is backtracking on his tweet defending Joe Rogan, in which he claimed Rogan isn't racist because he works with Black people.

"I don't think Joe Rogan is a racist — the man interacts with and works with black people literally all of the time," Yang tweeted Sunday.

Yang, who appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience in February 2019, added, "Do I know black friends of Joe's who would swear by him? Yes I do."

Yang's comments came one day after Rogan, who has been the center of controversy regarding Covid-19 and vaccine misinformation on his Spotify podcast, issued a public apology for his past use of racial slurs.

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Lay down or defend dogs, you rise up with fleas.

Kneejerk defenses of this schlock jock who didn't even do a good job on Newsradio always bite you in the end.

[Walleye]

1. Which proves that we need more education about racism not less

[NurseJackie]

2. ...

[hlthe2b]

3. Yang has quite the pattern of sticking his foot in his mouth.

[NurseJackie]

4. You said it!

[Lunabell]

5. I'm so glad Yang is a FORMER Democrat.

We have a big umbrella, but not for apologists of racism.

[rogue emissary]

13. The above article needed to say the founder of the Forward party.

He still gets the former Democratic presidential runner tag.

He hasn't been that for two years now. Pretty sure most democrats want nothing to do with him.

[Ray Bruns]

6. You know, sometimes it is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought of as a fool

than it is to open it and remove all doubt.

[Sherman A1]

7. I still like Yang

He had/has a lot of good ideas. He screwed up on this and on some other things along the way, but I still see him having value.

[greenjar_01]

8. Andrew Yang is a schmuck

[durablend]

9. The "I have a black friend so I can't be a racist" defense

Mhmm

[irisblue]

10. While I think his Basic Income idea is smart and right, he had the hijinks of Silicon Valley TechBro

as a go to trait. In the early days of the POTUS campaign, I was looking carefully at him, when I saw this clip, I was positive he was not ready for the position.

While this video clip is less then nothing in comparison with his racist statement in support of that Rogan guy, it was too 'fanboi' for me. (noun. Sometimes fan·boi . an obsessive male fan, especially of comic books, science fiction, video games, music, or electronic devices:Apple fanboys lined up to buy the new phone.
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[Aristus]

11. Slavers interacted with black people all the time.

You want to tell me they weren't racist?

[rogue emissary]

14. +1

[Lunabell]

15. My dad was a damned racist.

And I never once ever heard him utter the "n" word, he considered it ugly. But he was a racist for sure. You don't have to have to be outwardly racist to be one.

[forgotmylogin]

12. I've worked around many people who were covert racist in a mixed workplace.

They understand they can't be like that publicly or they will get fired. Not every racist is going to take every opportunity to commit a hate crime or would even consider it.

Often it's latent - they're not the types who are going to carry a Confederate flag or put one on their car, but they learned inherent racism in their upbringing, and often insist the "black people they know personally are different."

One of my friends started dropping the N-word once and I told him to stop that. "But I work with them and they use it. I'm using it in the same way they are - minus the hard-R which is a term of affection..."

Um, no, you're a white person in a room with no black people and you don't get to refer to anyone like that around me and expect to continue normal conversation. Yes, even if you consider yourself "a rapper".

[kimbutgar]

16. I didn't know much about Joe Rogan

But last night watching the Daily Show and seeing the film of him using the N word constantly I was shocked. Yang is an idiot.

[Turbineguy]

17. An extremely left-wing acquaintance of ours says....

Joe Rogan is a liberal. He has never voted for a republican. He uses racial slurs to ingratiate himself with wingnuts. He provides Covid misinformation to wingnuts. They eat that shit up and die.

He's a mole for the left so it seems.

[Omaha Steve]

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