Find someone who looks at you the way Whoopi Goldberg looks at Ted Danson in blackface.
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He has apologized for it many, many times. Let's let it go.
"I know what was in my heart, so I have no problem talking about this," he said. "But I need to, and want to, apologize for the rest of my life. Because somebody today can go on the internet, you're right, and go . . . 'Wow, I feel betrayed, I feel angry,' and whatever. And I did that."
On the podcast, Danson explained what he was thinking at the time, while stressing this is not an excuse for what he did. He said he felt ill-equipped to roast Goldberg, who was "one of the most outrageous, funny Black women in the world," given he was not a stand-up comedian, so he decided he'd try to "do performance theater."
He continued, "I thought I could pull this off. I thought . . . 'Oh, I can be Robin Williams. I can step up, and I can pull this off. I know it's bold, but I can pull this off.' And that was so arrogant and stupid on my part. So off I go, using all this horrendous language, describing our love affair, in blackface."
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