Presgraves said he saw the post last week and shared it because it he “thought it was funny,” but claimed he wasn’t prepared for the ensuing blowback.
“I had no idea people would react the way they did,” he said. “If I had a chance to do it over again, I wouldn’t do it. You can apologize all you want, but no one will believe it.”
Presgraves said he took down the post within 30 minutes and insisted he had no negative “intent behind it.”
“I don’t even depict that as racist,” he continued. “I ate Aunt Jemima all my life.”
The end of the article is pretty telling. If it was because of a welding accident, then holy ****. I was watching an interview with a Lebanese politician, and how this pretty much happened because of how corruption, and ineptitude (the fact that so much ammonium nitrate was left in a warehouse for 6-7 years). He was a little hesitant to mention that Hezbollah may have had something to do with why it sat there for so long (they have control over the ports and airports apparently).
Edit: Just saw a story on Facebook from a Lebanese musician I follow, they seemed like they were pretty close to the explosion from the video they took. Glad they're okay.
Damn it, Virginia. My power only came on like seven hours ago and yesterday I went the job on my day off to charge my phone, mooch some free food, and just get out of the house. I was wearing my BLM shirt and the first shit kicker cracker old man I come across takes one look at the shirt and says "Ya know they need ta start worryin' 'bout themselves. They're killin' each other every day."
