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

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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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