Kirkconnell added, “My age or when it happened does not excuse anything.
They are not acceptable or okay in any sense.
I was ignorant, but my ignorance was racist.”
Kirkconnell went on to apologize profusely to anybody who was “harmed and offended.”
Harrison made his initial defense of Kirkconnell in an interview with formerBacheloretteRachel Lindsay, which understandably stung even more.
Any defense of racist behavior denies the lived and continued experiences of BIPOC individuals.
These experiences are not to be exploited or tokenized."
