- "Bachelor" contestant Greer Blitzer apologized on Tuesday for tweets she wrote in 2016.
- In the tweets, Greer defended someone who dressed up as the late Tupac Shakur.
Greer Blitzer, a contestant on the current season of "The Bachelor," has apologized via social media for tweets she allegedly wrote in the past defending Blackface.
"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," Greer, who received Zach Shallcross's first impression rose on the season 27 premiere of the reality show, wrote in a social media statement on Tuesday.
Greer's statement specifically referred to tweets she said she wrote in 2016 defending someone who dressed as the late rapper Tupac Shakur for Halloween. The tweets in question resurfaced in a Reddit thread in the fall of 2022. Greer described her alleged tweets as "misguided."
As reported by Rolling Stone, though several contestants on "The Bachelor" have had their racist behavior exposed over the years, Greer's situation marks the earliest point someone has been held accountable in franchise history. The 24-year-old issued her apology on the same day that the show premiered.
"The students involved didn't even know what black face was so my point exactly. It wasn't an intentional racist act," People reported Greer writing in 2016.
In another tweet, she reportedly wrote that the woman in question didn't "paint herself black because she felt superior to black ppl."
"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," a third tweet reportedly read.
In her statement on Tuesday, Greer concluded:
"I am deeply sorry to those I have hurt, especially those within the Black community, not because these screenshots have resurfaced, but because I ever shared these harmful opinions at all," she continued. "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."