‘Bachelor’ Frontrunner Apologizes for Defending Pal’s Blackface Incident

“The Bachelor” contestant who obtained a leg up on her competitors throughout the premiere is now taking severe warmth on-line, and it is pressured her to apologize for some resurfaced tweets defending a blackface costume.

Greer Blitzer, who obtained the primary impression rose on Monday evening’s episode, virtually 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 scholar who wearing Blackface as Tupac for Halloween.”

Greer says she needs to apologize “to these I’ve harm, particularly these throughout the Black group” — 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 Excessive Faculty 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 large of a deal.