“The Bachelor” participant who got an upper hand on her competitors throughout the best is now taking major heat online, and it’s required her to ask forgiveness for some resurfaced tweets defending a blackface outfit.
Greer Blitzer, who got the impression increased on Monday night’s episode, nearly instantly discovered herself the target of Twitter sleuths who collected her posts from 2016. Tuesday she reacted by confessing she “used misguided arguments on Twitter to defend a student who dressed in Blackface as Tupac for Halloween.”
Greer states she wishes to ask forgiveness “to those I have hurt, especially those within the Black community” — declaring she isn’t sorry due to the fact that of the screenshots, however due to the fact that she had those viewpoints in the very first location.
ICYMI, Twitter users discovered a handful of Greer’s tweets — which she’s now erased — in defense of a pal at Lamar High School in Houston who put black paint on her face … presumably as part of an initiation event.
Greer declared those included had no idea what blackface was — or its historic significance — including somebody putting white powder on their face would not be as huge of an offer.
This isn’t the very first racial debate Bachelor Nation has actually dealt with — you’ll remember, finalist Erich Schwer said sorry after a yearbook picture of him impersonated Jimi Hendrix emerged … and Chris Harrison called it stops after dealing with reaction for defending Rachael Kirkconnell‘s antebellum-themed pictures on an old plantation.
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