I didn't know not to say the word because what it would do, but I do now. He said, "I don't give a damn that was a private call they burglarized I knew not to do that. "Once I said it and met with leaders of the black community and realized what that word meant, that's when I said, 'I will never again utter that word.
"I was with 38,000 black men at the age of 22 in the '70s, the guards - whether they're black or white - called them that every day," he said. But as a former prison inmate of mixed ethnicity - he is part Native American - Chapman said he felt he could use the word without it defining him as a racist. He said he was referring to his use of the racial slur, which he admits - even on the recording - knowing that it would spark public outrage. In a February 8, 2008, foreword to his book, "You Can Run But You Can't Hide," he writes that "giving up cussing is just the first step toward my evolution as a human." I'm going out swinging.'"Ĭhapman said his meetings with leaders of the black community were more than an attempt to redeem himself in the public eye and get his show back on the air. but you ain't gonna call me something I'm not. all those guys told me, 'Dog, say that you were this, say you were that, if you go out there, you're done.' I said, 'I'm going out in a hail of glory. Some African-American leaders called for the cancellation of his show.Ĭhapman said he was advised to lay low for several weeks, but he refused.
It was his other son, Tucker, who recorded a profanity-laced conversation with his father and reportedly sold the recording - which included Chapman repeatedly using the "n-word" - to the National Enquirer in 2007. "They said, 'It'll pass,' and I said to the guy, 'You know what? I won't let it.' "Ĭhapman, 56, spoke candidly about accusations of racism on a recent windy Saturday afternoon on the sidelines of 8-year-old son Garry's baseball game. Now, with his show back on the air and at the top of the network's ratings list, Chapman insists that he does not want the controversy to be forgotten. A&E briefly suspended his top-rated reality show in late 2007, and his reputation was on the line.
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