No, it doesn’t have to count for something. Also, he didn’t have “the good sense to issue a swift and thoughtful apology.” The response came from someone else in the organization, who apologized “on Wilcox’s behalf,” and that response literally missed the entire point of the complaint.

lol okay guy

Go away, dumbass. You don’t get “bona fides” to insult people by fucking someone else entirely.

Only way to improve it would be using the passive voice: Mr Crawford and his wife were offended by the joke.

“I know 4 black people, so I can say it.”