'I was wrong, period,' Smith said. 'There is no excuse. This is not ESPN, this is not Disney...this was me.
player Shohei Ohtani.
Smith referred to the Anaheim Angels star as the"dude that needs an interpreter" Monday on his ESPN show,In his Tuesday show, he was given the opportunity to address the audience to directly apologize. "I want to express my sincere apologies to the Asian community and the Asian-American community," Smith said."I am a Black man. I religiously go off about minorities being marginalized in this nation....The reason I bring up my Blackness is because of this: On many occasions, what I have said when people have said something that is offensive in any way to the minority community, it is not about how you feel. It's about how they feel.
MLB fans were angered by Smith's comment, calling him racist and xenophobic. He took to Twitter on Monday night to first defend his statement and then apologize for it. He first said in a video response that his words were misinterpreted. He defended his original comment by saying he was targeting MLB's failing promotion of players and the sport itself. In the video, he praised Ohtani's skills, calling him an up-and-coming Babe Ruth.
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