I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.
I used to walk around saying that I'm just another black man without a college degree.
You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.
Some people it seems to me would like for me to crawl in a hole and disappear forever. That's just not in my nature.
Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.
I fooled some of the most brilliant people in journalism.