Don Cherry explains what he meant by ‘you people’ in poppy rant
“Well, I meant, I meant everybody,” he explained to Adrian Ghobrial of CityNews Toronto on Tuesday when asked who he meant by “you people” — a phrase that was interrupted by some as singling out immigrants.
“But I said the wrong thing… Everybody. That’s what I meant… When I left that night, nobody said anything. It was the next day that they talked about it and the whole deal. So, that’s the way people want to take it. There’s nothing I can do about it.”
Three days removed from the broadcast, Cherry regrets the words he used during the segment while speaking about a cause very close to his heart.
“Yes, I wish I had said everybody,” Cherry said when asked by Ghobrial if he wished he had used different words. “But [there’s] nothing you can do about it. I didn’t use it and you can’t go back and say ‘wish.’ I wish I had done this, I wish I had done that. I did it and I’m paying the price.”
“I offered to come on, and put out a note,” he said, according to Michael Talbot and Adrian Ghobrial of CityNews. “But it wasn’t enough and they wanted me to do more and I wasn’t prepared to do it, it’s that simple… I could’ve had my job back if I agreed to do those things and I said ‘No.’
“It’s a good way to go out, if I gotta go.”
Per Talbot and Ghobrial, Cherry didn’t elaborate on what his employers asked him to do.