Greer Blitzer: Bachelor Entrance-Runner Defends Surprising Blackface Feedback

Should you watched the premiere of Andrew Shallcross’ season of The Bachelor, then you recognize {that a} handful of contestants appear to seize his consideration virtually instantly.

One in every of them was Greer Blitzer, a 24-year-old medical gross sales rep from Houston.

Greer introduced Andrew a cup of espresso and defined to him how shut she is to his present metropolis of Austin, and the way a lot she’s all the time needed to reside there.

The primary impression techniques should have labored, as a result of the 2 of them wound up making out in plain view of a number of different contestants.

Judging from the response on Twitter, Greer was widespread with followers as properly, and lots of viewers tweeted that they had been completely satisfied to see her emerge as an early front-runner.

Public opinion took a pointy nosedive, nonetheless, when some outdated tweets resurfaced wherein Greer defended a classmates’ resolution to put on blackface to highschool.

The scholar was apparently taking part in some form of initiation ritual, and Blitzer lashed out at those that criticized her for it.

“The scholars concerned didn’t even know what blackface was so my level precisely. It wasn’t an intentional racist act,” Greer allegedly tweeted in 2016.

“She didn’t paint herself black as a result of she felt superior to black [people]. Placing white powder in your face isn’t okay both,” she continued.

“That didn’t make the information did it? I apologize if this offended you however you should perceive it was not initially purported to be perceived that approach in any respect.”

Now, Greer has taken to social media to apologize for her earlier remarks and make clear that she not feels that approach.

“In my previous, I’ve made some uneducated, ignorant and albeit, fallacious, feedback on my social media accounts,” the 24-year-old wrote on Instagram on Tuesday.

“Particularly, in 2016, I used misguided arguments on Twitter to defend a pupil who wearing Blackface as Tupac for Halloween.”

Blitzer went on to say that there’s no excuse for her actions, and he or she merely hopes that those that have been affected by her feedback can discover it of their hearts to forgive her.

“I’m deeply sorry to these I’ve harm, particularly these inside the Black group, not as a result of these screenshots have resurfaced, however as a result of I ever shared these dangerous opinions in any respect,” she wrote.

“Time and age don’t excuse my actions, however this isn’t a mirrored image of who I’m at the moment,” Greer continued.

“I don’t stand by or condone the damaging opinions and behaviors I shared throughout that stage of my life and can ceaselessly remorse making these offensive remarks.”

ABC and Zach Shallcross have but to answer the controversy surrounding Greer.

We’ll have additional updates on this growing story as new data turns into obtainable.