Blackface is dumbest move — yet people continue to brazenly incorporate it into their ruse.
A Fox Sports reporter named Briony Ingerson from Australia is catching heat after she posted a photo of herself in blackface on Instagram a few months back to “celebrate” one of her friends making an appearance on the reality show, I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!
The picture went unnoticed for months until this past weekend when one of her former interns called her out for it on Twitter:
V.hurt to c @BrionyIngerson do #blackface. Feel disgusted & disappointed esp having worked w/ her. #Racism is not ok. pic.twitter.com/F20YnDxws4
— Ahmed Yussuf (@ahmedyussuf10) April 19, 2015
Ingerson took the photo down and issued an apology through the Sydney Morning Herald.
“I’m deeply upset that my Instagram post offended people in the community,” she said. “That was not my intent; it was a very poor error in judgment and I now understand how inappropriate it was. The post has been removed and I offer my sincere apologies to those that were hurt by it.”