It feels like you're trying to use snark to wiggle out of apologizing for the lynching of somebody who got uppity.

"There's near consensus you can't say a certain word if you're the wrong color. If you're the wrong color and you say the word you're not allowed to say, other people think it means something bad. Everybody knows it. Sometimes you might get away with being the wrong color and saying the special word. But you shouldn't push your luck too much! And this guy pushed his luck way too much! And they even gave him a chance to repent, and he just messed up again. So how much sympathy can we have for him?"