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In Harrisons statement about stepping down, he writes: By excusing historical racism, I defended it.

I invoked the term woke police, which is unacceptable.
I am ashamed over how uninformed I was.
I was so wrong.
To the Black community, to the BIPOC community: I am so sorry.
My words were harmful.
Harrison confirms in the statement that he will not appear in the After the Final Rose special.
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