Duane "Dog The Bounty Hunter" Chapman’s "N-word rant tape" was sold to National Enquirer by his son

UPDATE: TV Bounty Hunter Apologizes For Racial Slur; Contacts Sharpton


....In the tape recording, Chap man angrily tells his son Tucker that the young man shouldn't be dating his African-American girlfriend - teacher Monique Shinnery.

More specifically, Chapman was upset that Shinnery's presence would prevent his crew from using racial slurs.

"I don't care if she's a Mexican, a whore, whatever. It's not because she's black, it's because we use the word n- - - - - sometimes here," Chapman said.

"I'm not going to take a chance ever in life of losing everything I've worked for, for 30 years, because some f- - -ing n- - - - - heard us saying n- - - - -."

Chapman rationalized that he means no harm when he uses the slur.

"It's that we use the word n- - - -. We don't mean, 'You f- - -ing scum n- - - - - without a soul,' " Chapman said.

"We don't mean that s- - -, but America would think we mean that."

Chapman is a Honolulu-based adventurer best known for his 2003 apprehension of serial rapist Andrew Luster, the Max Factor heir who skipped to Mexico.

The Dog apologized last night, and said he was ripping the girlfriend's character and not her race.

You're right-- he's a misunderstood man with a heart of gold, a few teeth of gold, and an epithet for every race.