“Putting white powder on your face isn’t okay either,' early frontrunner contestant Greer Blitzer once wrote of blackface. 'That didn’t make the news did it?”
highlighting old tweets of hers regarding Halloween costumes involving blackface. The screenshotted tweets notably don’t include a date. “The students involved didn’t even know what black face was so my point exactly. It wasn’t an intentional racist act,” she wrote in one tweet. In another defending the students: “She did not paint herself black because she felt superior to black [people].” And in a third, she wrote: “Putting white powder on your face isn’t okay either.
Even as a very prolific tweeter, myself, I’m pretty shocked by the sheer volume of tweets about just one topic. It’s especially concerning that the topic in question is… defending blackface. The same Reddit thread also included photos appearing to show Blitzer supporting Donald Trump and celebrating his victory over Hillary Clinton on election night in 2016.
“Time and age do not excuse my actions, but this is not a reflection of who I am today. I do not stand by or condone the damaging opinions and behaviors I shared during that stage of my life and will forever regret making those offensive remarks,” the note continues.
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