Influencer Brooke Schofield dragged for awful apology about her resurfaced racist tweets

‘I thought I was funny tweeting offensive things’

4 months ago

Influencer and co-host of the Cancelled podcast with Tana Mangeau, Brooke Schofield is being dragged online after her “awful” apology following the discovery of racist tweets she’d posted when she was a teenager.

The account PopCrave posted about the tweets that Brooke posted when she was 15 to 18 years old, including her defending George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin. In 2012 George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin through the chest, who was just 17 and unarmed.

Brooke Schofield has apologized for racist posts that she shared when she was 15-18 years old:

“My parents were addicts, so I was adopted by my grandparents when I was like 10. As is true for a lot of grandparents, they’re a little bit less progressive than a lot of us are now.” pic.twitter.com/Hx427uVKpu

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) August 4, 2024

Her tweets include her saying: “I said so many racist things last night I don’t even know how I made it back to America.” In another, she wrote: “I swear I had nappier hair this morning than most African Americans on this end of our country #afro.”

On Saturday Brooke Schofield posted a four minute long apology to TikTok where she confirmed the racist tweets were “not fake.” The video was in response to a fan who wrote: “People are allowed to be hurt by her words, especially those it was targeted at. It’s not a non-POC’s place to forgive her and defend her ‘growth.’ People can be hurt.”

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Brooke explained: “You have probably seen the tweets that have been floating around. They are not fake. Those are real things that I said. I want to acknowledge that I feel the same way about them that you do. I think they are so disturbing. They’re wrong. They’re horrible and they’re disgusting.”

She went on to explain that her grandparents adopted her when she was 10 and that their views ended up influencing her. She added: “There are people in my life, who I might’ve looked up to forever, who I do not agree with.

“I’m very very sorry to anyone who is hurt by the tweets because, obviously they are very hurtful. Sometimes you have these people that you put on a pedestal and you think everyone older than you is smarter than you and knows everything and they do not.”

She admitted it wasn’t until she went to college that she was able to “shift” her way of thinking. She concluded by apologising for not addressing the tweets sooner but she thought it would cause more harm to bring them to light again.

She explained: “I also apologize for not saying something sooner. I was getting these messages from people who were hurt by them and I felt like by bringing more attention to it, I’d be hurting more people.”

Again. I thought I was anti racist.. I never thought racism was ok, I just didn’t realize I was part of the problem. I thought I was funny tweeting offensive things, and I wasn’t. And I thought that what I heard on the news had to be true. It wasn’t. I am so sorry

— Brooke Schofield (@BroookeAmber) August 4, 2024

She commented on the resurfaced tweets on Twitter when replying to a fan who criticised the fact she’d taken 10 years to apologise. She said: “Again. I thought I was anti racist. I never thought racism was ok, I just didn’t realize I was part of the problem. I thought I was funny tweeting offensive things, and I wasn’t. And I thought that what I heard on the news had to be true. It wasn’t. I am so sorry.”

Fans have been quick to call her out in the comments, accusing her of putting on a performance to gain more sympathy. One wrote: “And scene” whilst another added: “Why are you crying?”

Another post with a partnership Brooke had was taken down
by incancelledpod

The clothing brand BoysLie has an upcoming collab with Brooke that is scheduled to release in just a few days, but the brand issued a statement about their plan moving forward with her. They explained they “understand the severity and urgency behind addressing the concerns around our latest collaboration.” T Mobile has also withdrawn its paid partnership with Brooke.

The Tab has contacted Brooke Schofield and her management for comment.