OU Frat Member Asks for Forgiveness for Racist Chant in Public Apology

Levi Pettit, one of the University of Oklahoma frat members caught in the video of an SAE n-word chant, held a press conference today to publicly apologize for his words and asked for forgiveness.

Pettit was one of the two students who ended up expelled over the racist chant, and since then he has met with local leaders in the black community.

Today Pettit asked for forgiveness and repeatedly apologized for the horrible comments he chanted. He said all the good in his life “has been erased by a six-second video” and said he will “feel the pain of it for the rest of my life.”

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Pettit that after meeting with community leaders, he better understood the weight and meaning of those words. When asked by a reporter a little later why he used racist words, despite knowing they were wrong, he said, “I didn’t know how or why they were wrong.”

You can watch Pettit’s full comments here, via MSNBC:

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