Liberty’s Cappie Pondexter Apologies For Insensitive Tweets About Japan

Remember the whole Don Imus - Rutgers women basketball uproar in 2007? At the time, WNBA player and Rutgers alumnus Cappie Pondexter issued a statement saying Imus’ “racial comments are unacceptable and inappropriate.”

Fair enough, they were some oddly-misogynistic comments. Of course, if you’re going to call others out via sternly-worded official statements, you better live up to your own standard.

Fast-forward to this week. The situation over in Japan right now is catastrophic, sobering and certainly nothing to belittle. And it’s certainly not a good time to assign blame to the Japanese people for what happened. Shame, then, that Cappie Pondexter decided to go on Twitter and do just that.

First: “maybe god was tired of the way they treated there own people”

Then: “u just never knw! They did pearl harbor so u can’t expect anything less”

I’d hate to hear her explanation for 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.

Pondexter later went on to ask if someone who disagreed with her was “jap.“ Yikes.

She has since learned the error of her ways by sharing the true meaning of that derogatory term and apologized in full.

“I wanna apologize to anyone I may hurt or offended during this tragic time,” the tweet said. “I didn’t realize that my words could be interpreted in the manner which they were. People that knw me would tell u 1st hand I’m a very spiritual person and believe that everything, even disasters happen 4 a reason and that God will shouldn’t be questioned but this is a very sensitive subject at a very tragic time and I shouldn’t even have given a reason for the choice of words I used.

“The least thing I wanted was to hurt or offend anyone so again I truly apologize. If you’ve lost respect for me that’s totally fine but please don’t let me or my words lose the respect of u the WNBA and what it stands for.

“I’m very strong woman evn strong enough 2 admit an apologize when I’m wrong. Twitter is a voice and wth tht I wanna apologize again.”

Thus concludes this matter. Lessons learned. Bridges commence rebuilding, literally and figuratively.