I do think he should get to the point where he’s un- normalizing racism before he gets a whole cookie.
It still feels like “I’m personally lucky I didn’t find someone to lynch.” Like he’s apologizing for almost being violent, but not for being racist in the first place.
If someone told me, “I almost punched your grandfather in the face, but I stopped myself at the last minute,” I don’t think there’d be a slow building clap for it.
It’s also hard to give him full credit for words that don’t address racism at all, "It’s awful. But I did learn a lesson from it, when I eventually thought, ‘What the fuck are you doing’, you know? I understand that need for revenge, but it just leads to more revenge, to more killing and more killing.”
And, as context, the admission was given on a promotional tour for this;
