Social media briefly erupted in Seattle about Fox 13's Aaron Levine posting laugh emojis about Druski's verbal gaffe at the NFL honors show Thursday night. He butchered Seahawks star JSN's name into an apparent racial slur while announcing the player's award.
KIRO 97.3 talk host posted about it, calling Levine out disappointedly while not naming him. But Levine stepped up and took the blame. Apparently, all is well now. Here is the sequence:
From Gee Scott Sr.on X:
Kinda disappointed when I see someone in Seattle media posting laughing emojis on social media about Druski's disrespect of JSN's name. Yes, I saw it before it was deleted. Hope all of us learn from this.
From Aaron Levine on X in response:
Gee, this was me and it was a big mistake and I apologize. I’m not familiar with Druski nor that he likely did that on purpose. Anyone deserves more respect for such an important honor, especially JSN. My knee-jerk reaction was childish and wrong but it had everything to do with the general idea of mispronouncing a name (something I can relate to, since I’ve done so myself with other names that are difficult to pronounce upon first glance). The deletion came upon realization of the very inappropriate racial undertone of his specific mispronunciation, and I appreciate those whose direct responses to the tweet helped alert me to pay more attention. That is not an excuse, simply an explanation of context. Either way, it shouldn’t have happened to begin with, I truly apologize again and I hope people can give me the benefit of the doubt.
From Gee Scott Sr.:
Respect! 🫡 💯. You a real one for this.
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Moral of story, don't push that button so fast next time. Haste makes waste.
Looks like there really are some adults in the room. Why do we really need social media? Could the underlying reason be to keep folks agitated?
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At least Aaron has owned up to his mistake and geninually apologized for it. Thats more than a lot of people would do these days.
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