One of my worst moments in college. Taking a Political Science class in my early college years. Professor posed a question about why data reflected a low score for Black people regarding their knowledge of world events and politics. Something to that nature. Silence for a long moment. I had an idea about what I wanted to say but it came out of my mouth as 'Because they are less intelligent.' As the gasps and 'whats!' came from the class I realized that was not what I wanted to suggest. The Professor actually said 'No. He is right and went forward with the lecture.' I thought well I'll never get that moment back. I did go over to 2 Black students in the class and apologized. Stated that what I meant to say was 'informed'. I felt so bad and couldn't believe what had happened. Just a point to share here that in a second you can let slip on a super hot topic and regret it.