Andrew Yang tweets Joe Rogan is ‘not racist,’ before deleting it because it ‘hurt people’
=Former presidential candidate Andrew Yang defended Joe Rogan in a tweet Sunday afternoon, claiming he is not racist, after a video compilation of the podcast host repeatedly using the N-word surfaced this week.
“I don’t think Joe Rogan is a racist – the man interacts with and works with black people literally all of the time,” Yang said in the since-deleted tweet against criticism Rogan is receiving, the Hill reported.
“Do I know black friends of Joe’s who would swear by him? Yes I do,” he added, according to the report.
Yang, who was a guest on “The Joe Rogan Experience” in 2019, explained in a series of subsequent tweets that he deleted the post because it “hurt people.” He did not mention Rogan by name.
“I like to believe the best of people – especially if I’ve met and spent time with that person,” Yang tweeted. “Sometimes it makes me miss something. I think we should have the capacity to forgive people – whether a podcaster or a mayor – if they mess up. Maybe it’s because I mess up too.”=– READ MORE
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