Hulk Hogan has this message for anyone accusing him of racism:
He's a good guy who made a terrible screw-up, and that's it.
Is anyone buying what he's selling, however?
"I'm a good person," Hogan told People in an interview.
"I'm not a racist. I made one horrible mistake."
"What I have learned is that I've got this huge built in support system with all the people that have known, watched and worked with me."
"They know that [this one instance] is not who I am."
The mistake he referenced got Hulk Hogan fired by WWE for using offensive language about his daughter Brooke's love life eight years ago.
This incident only recently came to light.
"My anger was directed towards Brooke," he says, noting that if anyone should have kicked him to the curb, "it would be my daughter."
But instead, Hulk said that Brooke Hogan "came to me with nothing but love and said, "Dad, I love you so much," he says, tearing up.
He then spoke to his son Nick Bollea and his wife Jennifer McDaniel and realized that he had his family by his side, come what may.
"I said, "Okay, now I have my strength and I am going to take this head on. Since then, we have all been together," he tells People.
Why get racial with his language at all, though?
"When I grew up, it was something that was inherited generation after generation," he says. "That was part of my daily environment."
Not sure if that explanation is satisfactory to many critics, but as Hulk says, Brooke Hogan accepts it and has forgiven him, saying:
"I know who he is as a man and a father and he is not a racist ... he is a man who always means well. He's so jovial and kind."
"No matter what was happening with life," the aspiring country singer says of her father's best attribute, "if you call, he answers."
Hulk also says that "behind this dark cloud, there is going to be a huge shiny blessing and I'm going to get help people with this."
"I get to explain that even in the locker room when you're talking smack, it's not cool. I would love to see it taken out of the dictionary."
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