Just days after the news broke that former Tennessee GOP leader Chip Saltsman had released a song parody entitled “Barack the Magic Negro,” the Republican National Committee issued what it called “an official apology to America’s negroes.”

In the statement, the RNC ripped Saltsman’s song, calling it “tone-deaf, unacceptable, and offensive to every negro in the country.”

“We do not want one ill-considered song parody to create the wrong impression,” the RNC statement read.  “The Republican Party has always been, and will always be, the friend of the negro.”

But while the RNC’s official statement was designed to quell the outrage surrounding Mr. Saltsman’s song, it may have created a controversy of its own.

Just hours after releasing the official apology, the RNC issued a second apology apologizing for the first apology.

“It has come to our attention that we misused a word in our first apology,” the RNC statement read.  “We should have capitalized ‘Negro.’”

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