Conor McGregor’s father says son is ‘unequivocally not racist’

One of the biggest — and ugliest — headlines coming out of the MayMac World Tour had to do with Conor McGregor and the issue of race.
McGregor, the UFC lightweight champion, made some off-hand comments about African Americans during the four-day, four-city tour on stage with Floyd Mayweather. McGregor’s father Tony, though, told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour that he knows that his son is not a racist, calling those who bring that up “race-baiters