A commentator on a high school basketball game in Oklahoma has blamed his diabetes for being caught using a racial slur on microphone.
Matt Rowan was commentating on a game between Norman High School and Midwest City High School when a hot microphone picked up an exchange with his fellow commentator.
As the students from Norman knelt, Rowan asked "They're kneeling?"
"I hope Norman gets their ass kicked," an announcer continued. "F****** n******."
Diabetes
There are a lot of symptoms of high blood sugar, racism is not one of them. https://t.co/q9l3Kd49Ne
— JDRF (@JDRF) March 13, 2021
"During the Norman High School girls basketball game against Midwest City, I made inappropriate and racist comments believing that the microphone was off," Rowan said in a statment.
"However, let me state immediately that is no excuse such comments should have never been uttered.
"I will state that I suffer Type 1 Diabetes and during the game my sugar was spiking.
"While not excusing my remarks it is not unusual when my sugar spikes that I become disoriented and often say things that are not appropriate as well as hurtful," he said.
"I do not believe that I would have made such horrible statements absent my sugar spiking."
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