Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Roland Martin's mea culpa: Hermeneutics of the self-erasing (non-)apology

Roland Martin has issued a mea culpa about remarks he made on Super Bowl Sunday which he acknowledges may have been construed as homophobic and which thus dismayed or distressed members of the public. GLAAD, in turn, has posted a counter-statement. (Read about it here.)
Posted late last night, Martin’s note is full of conciliatory language and it gives a run-down of the syndicated columnist and author’s bona fides as an outspoken critic of bullying and bigotry.
Yet it contains a coded sentence which makes the whole thing more ambivalent than it sounds

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