article_snippet: Although I don't deserve it, I want to ask for your forgiveness," Levi Pettit said as Levi Pettit read from a prepared statement at a news conference on Wednesday.
article_snippet: Flanked at the podium by African American leaders who he'd been meeting with at the Fairview Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Pettit, who is white, said he planned to spend the rest of he life trying to undo the damage he'd done.
article_snippet: Over the past week or so, I've met with a number of pastors and leaders in the community to seek understanding of the meaning behind the words that I spoke on that bus," Levi Pettit said.
article_snippet: I now have a clear understanding of what lives behind the words," Levi Pettit said.
highlights_snippet: Although I don't deserve it, I want to ask for your forgiveness," Levi Pettit says .
  
highlights_snippet: "From this point forward, I will be the leader that I should have been," " Levi Pettit says .