9 Negro League Museum (twitter.com) posted 1 year ago by user20461 1 year ago by user20461 +10 / -1 22 comments share 22 comments share save hide report block hide replies
In this context "Negro League" isn't a slur, it's what it was called. "Negro" was the PC term for awhile.
The C in NAACP isn't a slur either, although is was for awhile, because that was the PC term at its founding.
Just clearing it up that the way he pronounced it sounded like hard R
But if you say Negro League fast enough, it does sound like hard R so he may not even have said it, but still has to apologize for it.