"Lemme get off Ole Miss I'm sorry people y'all ain't racist ... y'all just have KKK marches every month."
—Marlon Humphrey, five-star defensive back from Hoover High School in Alabama, via Twitter June 24.
Why it stinks: Humphrey mentioned monthly Ku Klux Klan marches at the University of Mississippi in several tweets, said he saw "white people in white night gowns" on campus and that Ole Miss picked a black homecoming queen for the express purpose of not looking racist.
Trying to downplay complaints from Ole Miss fans, he tweeted, "KKK rallies hahaha I'm weak."
The last KKK rally at Ole Miss was in 2009, with about a dozen in attendance.
Later the same day, Humphrey apologized, also via Twitter, in two separate tweets.
"This tweet is to the Ole Miss Coaching Staff and the Ole Miss Family. I have not been on your campus as a recruit. I have not felt any racism from anyone on your campus. I am sorry for misleading anyone in thinking that there is any racism coming from the Ole Miss family."
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