Nick is apologizing for how he expressed his idea of who the true Semites are, but what about the people who were hurt by his talk about melanin? What does he say to his white co-workers who he defines as lesser beings, to his ex-mother-in-law and to the mother of his children, all of whom share white ethnicity? What does he say to biracial and black-identifying people who have to contend with arguments about the amount of melanin that makes a person legitimately black?