Hulk Hogan Asks for Forgiveness for Racial Slur Scandal

Hulk Hogan was fired from the WWE back in July following a racism-filled rant of his. Hogan finally addressed it today on Good Morning America, "Please Forgive Me ... People Get Better."

“I’m not a racist but I never should have said what I said. It was wrong. I’m embarrassed by it,” he said, but added: “People need to realize that you inherit things from your environment. And where I grew up was south Tampa, Port Tampa, and it was a really rough neighborhood, very low income. And all my friends, we greeted each other saying that word.”

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“The … the environment I grew up in in south Tampa and all my white friends, all my black friends, to hear the word on a daily basis when they’d greet me in the morning, that’s what they’d say to me, ‘Good morning,’ so-and-so,” he said. “I think that was part of the culture and the environment I grew up in and I think that’s fair to say.”