Morning Brouhaha: Roland Responds

Late last night, CNN Analyst and Washington Watch Host Roland Martin issued a “Final Thoughts” statement on the Super Bowl controversy that has thrown a wet blanket over him for the past 48 hours. In it, he explains that the LGBT community has accused him of supporting violence against gays. “That is furthest from the truth, and I sincerely regret any offense my words have caused,” he writes.

He says, he too, was bullied. A “middle schooler pulled a knife on my father when he boarded our school bus and came to the defense of me and my brother.”

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