If I were a member of the basketball team, I would never accept the apology that he put out. I am a strong believer that if you say something, you mean it. This could be looked at as a Freudian slip, but still a slip. What you mean, you say. The fact that the comment was made on the radio, with thousands of people listening doesn't make the action any better, in fact, it makes it worse.
He has responsibilities with his show, and along with those responsibilities, he needs to be able to face concequences for wrong actions. The fact that he got two weeks of suspension is a small price to pay. During that time, what did he do? I think that many of my friends make really good points about how there is a difference between actually being sorry and being sorry that you got caught. He is sorry he got caught, but I'm not so sure about him being sorry that he said it.
His apology also includes comments about Sickle Cell Anemia. What does this have anything to do with what he is apologizing for. I feel like he is just trying to make himself look good by focusing on something that will touch people's hearts and take some blame off of himself.
During class, a black student shared with us the idea of how her and her sister may tell each other that their hair is "nappy" or other such comments. She told us that she has no problem with the comments when coming from her sister, or perhaps other black people. She talked about how the black people began the use of the word "nappy" in context to hair, so why would a white male be using it against black students? Seems a little odd to me.
We all want to know more about different cultures, but because we know about the cultures doesn't mean that we are invited into their languages and jargons.
To this I say, to each his own.