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Former President Barack Obama recently apologized in his memoir, writing that he used homophobic slurs when he was a teen. Once I got to college and became friends with fellow students and professors who were openly gay, though, I realized the overt discrimination and hate they were subject to, as well as the loneliness and self-doubt that the dominant culture imposed on them, he wrote. I felt ashamed of my past behavior – and learned to do better.
Ryan Reynolds and wife Blake Lively expressed regret, too, for their plantation wedding, calling it something we’ll always be deeply and unreservedly sorry for. And Alton Brown apologized after he wrote a flippant tweet about the Holocaust.