When you're in a room full of people shouting racial slurs it doesn't really matter what their intent is. Trying to play it off with "It's just a prank bro" is

When you're in a room full of people shouting racial slurs it doesn't really matter what their intent is. Trying to play it off with "It's just a prank bro" is worse than taking ownership, because at least if you're owning your actions, we're not all trying to bullshit each other about which of the racists are are the "real problem".