The Bachelor contestant Greer Blitzer apologizes for past tweets defending blackface
dailymail.co.ukThe Bachelor contestant Greer Blitzer apologized for racially-insensitive tweets from 2016 that leaked on Reddit following the 27th season premiere on Monday.The 24-year-old avid Trump supporter had been defending a Lamar High School sophomore's decision to wear blackface and a Tupac T-shirt to her off-campus party, which made national news at the time.'The students involved didn't even know what blackface was so my point exactly.
It wasn't an intentional racist act,' Greer allegedly tweeted in 2016. Damage control: The Bachelor contestant Greer Blitzer apologized for racially-insensitive tweets from 2016 that leaked on Reddit following the 27th season premiere on Monday'She did not paint herself black because she felt superior to black [people].
Putting white powder on your face isn't okay either. That didn't make the news did it? I apologize if this offended you but you must understand it was not initially supposed to be perceived that way at all.'But now Greer - who claimed she 'is never embarrassed' and 'isn't afraid to speak her mind' on her ABC bio - is regretting being so outspoken on the social media platform.'The journey to love is filled with lessons and these lessons are also made on our journey of growth.
In my past, I have made some uneducated, ignorant and frankly, wrong comments on my social media accounts,' Blitzer wrote via Instastory on Tuesday.'In particular, in 2016, I used misguided arguments on Twitter to defend a student who dressed in Blackface as Tupac for Halloween.
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