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‘Bachelor’ Frontrunner Apologizes for Defending Friend’s Blackface Incident
“The Bachelor” contestant who acquired a leg up on her competitors through the premiere is now taking severe warmth on-line, and it is pressured her to apologize for some resurfaced tweets defending a blackface costume.
Greer Blitzer, who acquired the primary impression rose on Monday night time’s episode, virtually instantly discovered herself the goal of Twitter sleuths who dug up her posts from 2016. Tuesday she responded by admitting she “used misguided arguments on Twitter to defend a scholar who wearing Blackface as Tupac for Halloween.”
Greer says she desires to apologize “to these I’ve damage, particularly these throughout the Black neighborhood” — claiming she is not sorry due to the screenshots, however as a result of she had these opinions within the first place.
ICYMI, Twitter customers discovered a handful of Greer’s tweets — which she’s now deleted — in protection of a buddy at Lamar Excessive College in Houston who put black paint on her face … allegedly as a part of an initiation ceremony.
Greer claimed these concerned had no clue what blackface was — or its historic significance — including somebody placing white powder on their face would not be as massive of a deal.
This is not the primary racial controversy Bachelor Nation has confronted — you may recall, finalist Erich Schwer apologized after a yearbook photograph of him dressed as Jimi Hendrix got here to mild … and Chris Harrison known as it quits after going through backlash for defending Rachael Kirkconnell‘s antebellum-themed pictures on an outdated plantation.