Finally, a real apology

Michael Arceneaux
4 min readApr 11, 2023

It took Daniel Caesar a few years, but he’s apologized for that 2019 Instagram Live rant.

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I like when people apologize — especially when they actually seem to mean it.

Back in 2019, Daniel Caesar went on Instagram live and made the mistake of defending a silly white woman that constantly used to find herself in the the center of an online Black uproar.

During an Instagram Live session, Caesar came to the defense of social media personality YesJulz, who had been accused of being a culture vulture. Around that same time, YesJulz appeared on the “Easily Offended” podcast and spoke about the time she posted a picture of a “N*gg*s lie a lot” t-shirt asking if she should wear it to a festival.

I don’t know who made her comfortable enough to both think and say something that fucking stupid, but understandably, it pissed a lot of Black folks off and they let her have it on every corner of the internet.

Caesar took umbrage with that, which is his right I guess, but he — admittedly “drunk as fuck” — went on his Live and asked his Black fans why they were being “so mean” to white people.

Let him tell it at the time, Black people were “being sensitive.”

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Michael Arceneaux

New York Times bestselling author of “I Can’t Date Jesus” and “I Don’t Want To Die Poor.”