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Rachel Lindsay and Thomas Jacobs Call Out ‘The Bachelorette’ for Not Addressing Erich Schwer Blackface Photo on Finale

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Erich Schwer was in the hot seat during The Bachelorette: After the Final Rose on Tuesday, September 20, but some members of Bachelor Nation aren’t happy that Gabby Windey’s fiancé didn’t have to answer for a resurfaced photo of him in blackface in high school.“Sigh, somebody has to say this … This is the picture they should have posted and addressed tonight in the finale instead of text from the ex,” Rachel Lindsay began on Tuesday via Instagram Stories. “They really missed the mark on a necessary and important conversation that was initially not conveyed.

This was an opportunity for @Erich_Scwher to put action to his IG post rather than hide behind it. Unfortunately not all of us can hide in the same way when we are so highly offended by it.”Thomas Jacobs, meanwhile, accused the ABC show of sweeping the controversy “under the rug.”“Not gonna lie, pretty disappointed that they didn’t address the issues that were going on outside of those text messages,” the Bachelor in Paradise star, whose fiancée, season 14 Bachelorette Becca Kufrin, was in the audience, said via Instagram Stories. “At this point, if you’re on social media, we’ve all seen it.

Especially in the specific context of racial relations when it comes to this franchise in particular … to have a scenario like this and to just not even bring it to light, especially after everything that’s happened bringing us to this point over the last three years … it’s pretty disappointing.”Erich previously spoke out via Instagram on September 8.“I wholeheartedly apologize for the insensitive photo of me in Blackface from my high school yearbook that has been circulating,” he wrote in his statement. “What I thought at the time was a representation of my love for Jimi Hendrix,

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