{"id":55315,"date":"2023-01-25T00:10:23","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T00:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/25\/bachelor-frontrunner-apologizes-for-defending-friends-blackface-incident\/"},"modified":"2023-01-25T00:10:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T00:10:23","slug":"bachelor-frontrunner-apologizes-for-defending-friends-blackface-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/25\/bachelor-frontrunner-apologizes-for-defending-friends-blackface-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bachelor&#8217; Frontrunner Apologizes for Defending Friend&#8217;s Blackface Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<section id=\"cb-22e8fdb8e5bcd2b83c7b23e456cfdff6\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-image-block--default  canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"image-block\">\n                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20230124_5d80834f97824c0ebe6f1412852eea88\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:b2bfa594-9816-46e1-b4c1-21ae84221703\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\">\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/5d\/4by3\/2023\/01\/24\/5d80834f97824c0ebe6f1412852eea88_md.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Greer Blitzer bachelor\"\/>\n                <\/div>\n<p>                                  <\/a>\n      <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-22e8fdb8e5bcd2b83c7b23e456cfdff6--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-50c3153e4bc63b4ee9825828bf179d14\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>&#8220;The Bachelor&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-50c3153e4bc63b4ee9825828bf179d14--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-2cf916774511461327df5b1c2fbec825\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p><strong>Greer Blitzer<\/strong>, who received the primary impression rose on Monday evening&#8217;s episode, nearly instantly discovered herself the goal of Twitter sleuths who dug up her posts from 2016. Tuesday she responded by admitting she &#8220;used misguided arguments on Twitter to defend a pupil who wearing Blackface as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/tupac-shakur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Tupac<\/strong><\/a> for Halloween.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-2cf916774511461327df5b1c2fbec825--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-20b271d8070b44fcfb19157f95f806bf\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>Greer says she desires to apologize &#8220;to these I&#8217;ve damage, particularly these throughout the Black neighborhood&#8221; &#8212; claiming she is not sorry due to the screenshots, however as a result of she had these opinions within the first place.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-20b271d8070b44fcfb19157f95f806bf--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-ec71dcae4b30323c1583099c4cc28640\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-image-block--default  \">\n<div class=\"image-block\">\n                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20230124_1c261020d9e94e2680cd4a94ceb04056\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:b2bfa594-9816-46e1-b4c1-21ae84221703\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\">\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/1c\/4by3\/2023\/01\/24\/1c261020d9e94e2680cd4a94ceb04056_md.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"greer blitzer\"\/>\n                <\/div>\n<p>                                  <\/a>\n      <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-ec71dcae4b30323c1583099c4cc28640--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-dfc830a47dd531f7893637fa08756012\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>ICYMI, Twitter customers discovered a handful of Greer&#8217;s tweets &#8212; which she&#8217;s now deleted &#8212; in protection of a pal at Lamar High School in Houston who put black paint on her face &#8230; allegedly as a part of an initiation ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-dfc830a47dd531f7893637fa08756012--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-29ceaf8e2e38e08d59a623c5d8fcd78a\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>Greer claimed these concerned had no clue what blackface was &#8212; or its historic significance &#8212; including somebody placing white powder on their face would not be as massive of a deal.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-29ceaf8e2e38e08d59a623c5d8fcd78a--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-cf1059cd49c55de5cc6b2ccb5d4b2322\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-image-block canvas-image-block-permalink canvas-image-block--default  \">\n<div class=\"image-block\">\n                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20220909_0f632272c3294114ad6dc715cab0cba5\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:b2bfa594-9816-46e1-b4c1-21ae84221703\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"img-wrapper\">\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/0f\/4by3\/2022\/09\/09\/0f632272c3294114ad6dc715cab0cba5_md.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/>\n                <\/div>\n<p>                                  <\/a>\n      <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-cf1059cd49c55de5cc6b2ccb5d4b2322--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-3806061d8932c7971878f97a6d1bfd0c\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default  canvas-block-is-last \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>This is not the primary racial controversy Bachelor Nation has confronted &#8212; you may recall, finalist <strong>Erich Schwer<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2022\/09\/08\/bachelorette-contestant-erich-schwer-apologizes-blackface\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>apologized<\/strong><\/a> after a yearbook picture of him dressed as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/jimi-hendrix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong><\/a> got here to gentle &#8230; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/chris-harrison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Chris Harrison<\/strong><\/a> known as it quits after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2021\/06\/08\/chris-harrison-quitting-bachelor-duties-for-good-following-racism-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>dealing with backlash<\/strong><\/a> for defending <strong>Rachael Kirkconnell<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2021\/02\/26\/bachelor-finalist-rachael-kirkconnell-racism-controversy-white-people-defending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>antebellum-themed images<\/strong><\/a> on an previous plantation.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-3806061d8932c7971878f97a6d1bfd0c--><\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] &#8220;The Bachelor&#8221; 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Greer Blitzer, who received the primary impression rose on Monday evening&#8217;s episode, nearly instantly discovered herself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55315","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}