‘Women Tell All’: Greer Addresses Blackface Controversy & Admits She Was ‘Racist’

The Bachelor: Women Tell All special had Greer Blitzer successful the blistery spot during 1 segment. After asking astir her breakup with Zach Shallcross connected the show, host Jesse Palmer addressed Greer’s caller blackface controversy, which made headlines when The Bachelor began airing this season. Greer came nether occurrence for erstwhile societal media posts wherever she defended a friend’s determination to airs successful blackface arsenic portion of a costume. The Bachelor franchise has been called retired for not addressing topics related to contention and contention successful the past, which Jesse acknowledged during the special.

“The information is, arsenic a franchise, we’ve done a precise mediocre occupation successful the past of addressing superior topics head-on,” Jesse admitted to Greer. “We’re not going to miss that accidental present tonight. I cognize you person fixed a subsequent apology connected societal media and online, but I bash privation to springiness you the accidental to code this and stock your acquisition with us.”

Greer Blitzer connected ‘The Bachelor.’ (ABC)

Although Greer was admittedly nervous, she took ownership for her racist actions. “I’ve been wanting to code this. I don’t privation to expanse it nether the rug,” she shared. “What I failed to notation successful my apology was that what happened was racist. It’s not astir the intent, it’s astir the impact. This acquaintance of excavation that I knew performing blackface was racist, maine defending it was racist, my ignorance was racist. I’m conscionable truthful ashamed. I’m profoundly atrocious that I wounded the Black community. I can’t spell backmost successful time. All I tin bash is conscionable effort to beryllium amended present and effort to beryllium amended successful my future.”

Jesse revealed that Greer had met with a prof and diversity/inclusion specialist, Dr. Banks, pursuing the controversy. “She brought to my attraction that it’s truthful important to beryllium open-minded,” Greer explained. “It’s truthful important to question things and inquire and not conscionable bash without thinking. Before you speak, think. Before you accidental thing that could wounded idiosyncratic else. And bash your research. So I looked up lectures, truly wanted to dive heavy into the past of blackface and recognize wherefore it was incorrect and wherefore it was offensive. I realized it was a symbolism for dehumanizing the Black community, and truthful what I said was wrong. Defending that miss was racist and I privation to instrumentality that accountability. I don’t privation to excuse it.”

Greer connected nighttime 1 of filming. (ABC)

Dr. Banks was really successful the assemblage at Women Tell All, arsenic well, and Jesse opened the level up to her to proceed the conversation. “Thanks for having maine due to the fact that I deliberation it’s important to sanction and springiness dependable erstwhile these benignant of issues travel up. When racism comes up, beryllium consenting to sanction it,” Dr. Banks said. “The world is, we can’t bully our mode retired of racism. We tin accidental the close thing, but what are we going to do? What actions are we going to take? So that’s wherefore it’s truly important to not conscionable beryllium performative, but to amended ourselves and beryllium consenting to recognize the past down actions and beryllium consenting to bash thing different.”

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