It's been a humbling few days for American singer and Matchbox 20 frontman Rob Thomas, who apologised after making a racist joke that many took to be about Aboriginal Australians at a concert.<br />Thomas was playing at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena in Australia as part of his "The Great Unknown World Tour" on Saturday, when in between songs he conversed with the audience.<br />"When you get on the plane on the way here, you start drinking," Thomas told the crowd in a video released by TMZ.<br />"And then I drink until I think I'm Australian."<br />"And then I keep drinking until I think I'm a black Australian," Thomas added, eliciting a mix of boos and reluctant laughter from the crowd.<br />Thomas soon received plenty of heat for his remarks.<br />Thomas took to Facebook Sunday to apologise for his joke, saying "he cried in his room" when he found out what he said was racist.
