Dog said he didn't mean to use the N-word the way it sounded like he meant to use it. Seriously. He also said he thought he was cool with the black community. He said,
"I thought that I was cool enough in the black world to be able to use that word as a brother to a brother. I'm not. I didn't really know until three or four days ago what that meant to black people."
"There's a special connection that I thought I had between me and black America. And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.'
"In other words, my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that…so when I stood there and said, 'I kind of know what you feel like, because I've been there, too,' that I felt that I could embrace and like, as brothers…say the word."
"I now learned I'm not black at all, and I never did it out of hate," Chapman continued. "This sounds so stupid. I always did it out of love. Other white guys would be like, 'Boy, who does Dog think he is? Dog can say that.' And black guys would be with me and walk with me and respect me.
"So, I went too far with that."
Dog went on to say, "If I could kill myself and people would forgive me, I would do that. I said on the way here, "I hope no one died thinking I meant that word before I got here. I must come out."
Beth, Dog's soft spoken wife, has applied for a job at BIG LOTS.
