“The Bachelor” contestant who received a leg up on her competitors in the course of the premiere is now taking critical warmth on-line, and it is compelled her to apologize for some resurfaced tweets defending a blackface costume.
Greer Blitzer, who received the primary impression rose on Monday evening’s episode, nearly 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 pupil 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 pal at Lamar High School 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 picture of him dressed as Jimi Hendrix got here to gentle … and Chris Harrison known as it quits after dealing with backlash for defending Rachael Kirkconnell‘s antebellum-themed images on an previous plantation.