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Do you think this news was blown out of proportion? Should the press have hounded him as much as they did? Well, Jeremy Clarkson has finally given in and begged viewers' for forgiveness after he appeared to use the N-word during filming of his BBC programme Top Gear.
In a video statement posted online on Thursday, he said that he had tried to obscure the word when reciting the "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" nursery rhyme to chose between two cars, but that his efforts to do so "weren't quite good enough".
If you remember, Clarkson had previously denied that he used the 'N' word. He told his 3.2 million Twitter followers: "I did not use the N-word. Never use it. The Mirror has gone way too far this time."
But footage of the incident was later posted on The Daily Mirror website. In it Clarkson recites the beginning of the children's nursery rhyme "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" before apparently mumbling: "Catch a nigger by his toe."
His apology came after a day of growing calls for the BBC to sack him. The corporation issued a strongly worded statement saying: "Jeremy Clarkson has set out the background to this regrettable episode. We have made it absolutely clear to him, the standards the BBC expects on air and off. We have left him in no doubt about how seriously we view this.".
Does intent count when we judge people as racist? Was there intent to hurt when he recited that rhyme? What of black people that use the ‘N’ word? Why should it be OK for those black people to use the ‘N’ word? I find that even more offensive.
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