{"id":176938,"date":"2021-02-12T18:50:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bachelor-frontrunner-rachael-kirkconnell-speaks-out-about-past-offensive-racist-actions\/"},"modified":"2021-02-12T18:50:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T15:50:06","slug":"bachelor-frontrunner-rachael-kirkconnell-speaks-out-about-past-offensive-racist-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bachelor-frontrunner-rachael-kirkconnell-speaks-out-about-past-offensive-racist-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bachelor Frontrunner Rachael Kirkconnell Speaks Out About Past ‘Offensive’ & ‘Racist’ Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Bachelor Frontrunner Rachael Kirkconnell Speaks Out About Past ‘Offensive’ & ‘Racist’ Actions
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\nThe\u00a0Rachael Kirkconnell<\/strong> controversy has hit a fever pitch,\u00a0Bachelor Nation<\/em> fans\u2026 and it\u2019s finally gotten big enough where the 24-year-old suitor and the rest of the cast are all coming forward about it.<\/p>\n

As we reported first on Thursday, the\u00a0Bachelor<\/em> star and possible leading lady to securing\u00a0Matt James<\/strong>\u2018 heart has been embroiled in a scandal regarding old college pics showing her attending an \u201cantebellum plantation-theme<\/a>d\u201d fraternity formal.<\/p>\n

Related: Spoiler Alert \u2014 Did Matt James Already Reveal This Season\u2019s Winner By Accident??<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now, the Georgia native is speaking out \u2013 and apologizing for her place in those awful pictures. In a statement posted to her\u00a0Instagram<\/strong> account yesterday evening, the reality TV contestant wrote in part (below):<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there have been rumors circulating, there have also been truths that have come to light that I need to address. I hear you, and I\u2019m here to say I was wrong. At one point, I didn\u2019t recognize how offensive and racist my actions were, but that doesn\u2019t excuse them. My age or when it happened does not excuse anything. They are not acceptable or okay in any sense. I was ignorant, but my ignorance was racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

She continued on from there, and added one particularly good portion in which she acknowledged how\u00a0so many<\/em> white people have come forward with statements like this in the last couple years after realizing their problematic behavior:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I was thinking about what I wanted to say, I couldn\u2019t help but think about how sick people must be of reading these kinds of statements; how a person didn\u2019t realize the trauma that their actions would inflict on other people. It must get so exhausting. I want to put my energy towards preventing people from making the same offensive mistakes that I made in the first place, and I hope I can prove this to you moving forward. Racial progress and unity are impossible without (white) accountability, and I deserve to be held accountable for my actions. I will never grow unless I recognize what I have done is wrong. I don\u2019t think one apology means that I deserve your forgiveness, but rather I hope I can earn your forgiveness through my future actions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wow!<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t fix the behavior, of course, but at least it\u2019s kind of nice to see that she realizes how white people have really been dropping the ball and need to do better?!<\/p>\n

Here is her full statement (below):<\/p>\n

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