T.I. backtracks on sexist comments: "it was a joke"
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"I’m being told to be quiet & just let this pass, nah that ain't quite me,” he wrote. “So, here's my apology for my jokes that I made on DJ Whoo Kids radio show, my words WERE NOT meant to be taken so literally. never saw Whoo Kids show as a social/political platform, however apologize none the less.”
In the clip, T.I. says, “I apologize to the women I know and the women who know me, my mother, my wife, my daughters, my cousins, my nieces, my sisters, my aunties… I said some things that were insensitive and hurtful to women.” to those who he doesn’t know, he says, “I never intended to be taken as though I felt women couldn’t be leaders. That was not my intention. I know better than that. I know that my daughters as well as your daughters can lead this nation as well as any other nation as long as they apply themselves and educate themselves and motivate themselves to do so.”
“This time I reached for a joke that was in very poor taste using a stereotype associated to women that I should not have done,” he says. “That is not a reflection of how I feel.”
and because I don't expect much from him outside of music and looking good
