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Cut Us a Break: We're Young and Dumb

OFFENSIVE TWEETS If I am ever famous, I am going to have a lot of shit to apologize for. Over the last few months, a trend has emerged of people digging up old tweets from celebrities and exposing them. Some are really bad, like James Gunn, who joked about rape and molesting little kids. Others, like Trea Turner of the Washington Nationals, not so much. Ok, yes, this tweet does offend me. This joke has the originality of a Sylvester Stallone 90s movie. Yes, it has well been established that in general, those of African American descent are, shall we say, blessed.  Anything in these last few sentences apology worthy? I'm skating on thin ice here, and I'm not one for balance. I would love to hear an apology where they actually apologize for what they said instead of just brushing everything into the category of, "These things aren't a reflection of who I am," blah blah blah. "To all of the African Americans out there that I insinuated had large pe