I’m not Black but I am Hispanic. And part of life involves realizing the difference between racists vs. dumb kids who misspeak and don’t yet have the social tools to deal with it gracefully. (Yes, I consider Owen a kid; anyone who listens to him can tell he’s got the mentality of a 12 yo, probably from being abused at that age.) We happen to live in a world where the most prevalent pop music is hiphop which constantly uses and glorifies the word nigga; most kids don’t yet have the nuanced understanding of American race relations to grasp how certain cultures have ownership over certain words (even more casual musical variances of them), words which are verboten for other cultures within the community to use. Owen’s still learning - and he definitely got a hell of a recent lesson to teach him what he did wrong - but to misinterpret his gaffe + his ill-equipped, public way of dealing with it as “racism” does no one any good. This kid’s not a racist, he has no hate for Blacks; he’s just figuring out, in realtime, how to present himself to hundreds of thousands of global followers.