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"Throw whatever shade you want at Phil Robertson &amp;#x2014; he&amp;apos;s not about to duck and cover. As evidenced by his controversial comments about race and homosexuality in GQ last December, the 68-year-old Duck Dynasty patriarch isn&amp;apos;t afraid to speak his mind, even if it alienates fans of his family&amp;apos;s A&amp;amp;E reality show. In fact, he&amp;apos;s about to put himself out there again in a new book, unPHILtered: The Way I See It.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I don&amp;apos;t worry too much about people hating or insulting me,&amp;quot; Robertson tells Us Weekly&amp;apos;s Asher Fogle in the new issue, on stands Friday. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m a sinful man, and I&amp;apos;ve made a lot of mistakes. People have reason to hate me.&amp;quot;\r\nThat said, he thinks the GQ controversy was overblown. &amp;quot;All I did was quote a passage of scripture from antiquity,&amp;quot; the father of four says of the interview, in which he lumped homosexuality with sins like bestiality and adultery. &amp;quot;They&amp;apos;re mad at me, but I&amp;apos;m really just quoting what God said, so He&amp;apos;s the one they have a problem with.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n\r\nAs for his remarks suggesting that black people were &amp;quot;singing and happy&amp;quot; in the pre-Civil-Rights-era South? &amp;quot;I was just giving my experience,&amp;quot; he tells Us of working on a Louisiana cotton farm in the 1960s. &amp;quot;The point I was making was that even when our black brothers didn&amp;apos;t have their civil rights, those people had that one thing the government couldn&amp;apos;t take from them: their faith. They would sing spiritual songs as they were going across those cotton fields.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nA self-proclaimed &amp;quot;poor white boy,&amp;quot; Robertson insists he meant no offense by the comments. &amp;quot;Old Jesse [Jackson] got mad at me and said something about how I was a Jim Crow and a racist,&amp;quot; he recalls of the backlash. &amp;quot;We don&amp;apos;t look at people like black, white, and brown. We&amp;apos;re all members of the human race.&amp;quot;\r\nPitting people against one another, he says, is why we have gun violence. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s never been a weapons problem,&amp;quot; he posits. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s a human heart condition of anger and hatred. If people loved God and loved each other, the last thing you would ever contemplate is to murder your neighbor.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nFor more from our interview with the Duck Dynasty star &amp;#x2014; including his thoughts on politics and government, his reaction to being called a &amp;quot;bigot,&amp;quot; and why he hates social media (and has never even &amp;quot;turned on a computer&amp;quot;) &amp;#x2014; pick up the new issue of Us Weekly."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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