According to People Magazine, Bachelorette contestant Justin Glaze has apologized for his shameful posts disrespecting Black Queens on Twitter. Glaze made colorist and stereotypical comments about dark-skinned Black women when he was in high school.
The 29-year old Bachelorette star was a guest on the podcast Bachelor Happy Hour on July 12, where he said he wanted to take accountability for his colorist remarks. In the remarks, he said he wouldn’t ever want a woman as dark as Flavor Flav. He also made a stereotypical comment about Black women.
“#cantdateagirl with crusty a** feet,, hot a** breath like baby s***, body big enough to be an avatar n s*** or if she’s dark as @FlavorFlav.”
”They always show a well spoken caucasian cashier. They need to have a rude black b**** as a cashier once. So true.”
Glaze was asked about the comments while appearing on the podcast and seemingly gave a sincere apology. The Bachelorette finalist said that he made the colorist and stereotypical remarks to fit in with his high school peers. He also claimed that he wanted to apologize and be held accountable during the podcast.
“As I reflect on everything I just went through with this whole journey, oftentimes people ask me what I took from it. And one of the biggest takeaways for me was just my personal growth, and one of those things is being able to hold myself accountable, which is something that historically I wasn’t able to do. And so, I have no issue with owning up and apologizing from the bottom of my heart, you know, for the really hurtful words that I used back in 2009 and 2011.
The last thing that I want to do is run from it. That’s not who I am. I just want to kinda speak from the heart, and hopefully, people will get an understanding of where I was then versus where I am now. When I look back at 14-year-old Justin, I was in high school and quite frankly I was the type of person, who, you know, for whatever reason felt the need to fit in and say funny things and kinda keep up with what my peers were doing and saying to get a laugh or whatever. For whatever reason. The folks I had associated with that, you know, would throw around really hurtful slurs that, at the time, I didn’t really think anything of, right? And you know the last thing that I want is for people to defend me and say, ‘Oh, it was 10, 12 years ago.’ What I said was ignorant and hurtful then and it’s ignorant and hurtful now. Those words should not have come out of my mouth.”
Glaze added he was embarrassed and ashamed of his words and had matured over the last ten years.
We’re perplexed by the hate aimed towards our dark-skinned queens when everyone lighter than a paper bag is trying to get a suntan, but we digress.
