Brooke Schofield is still fighting claims that she's racist after old posts on X resurfaced.
The internet star's comments included remarks defending George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin. "Guarantee if Zimmerman shot a white guy this wouldn't even be a story. NEWS FLASH THIS WASN'T A CRIME OF RACISM IT WAS SELF DEFENSE," she wrote in one post. In another, she said: "I said so many accidentally racist things last night I don't know how I even made it back to America."
Now, Brooke is insistent that she is "not racist," writing on TikTok: "I have said racist things and I have acted in ways that are racist. I know that and I am disgusted by it and it makes me feel horrible and I would undo it all if I could. But I can't. I have done the work and LEARNED why everything I believed was wrong and I don't expect everyone to up and forgive me but his the truth.
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She added: "I was not doing research as a teenager, I wasn't TRYING to learn or understand. I was talking [sic] the words out of grown white mens mouths that I saw on TV and accepting them as truth."
Her comments come after she addressed the posts in a three-minute and 40-second response video where she branded her own words "disgusting." The Cancelled podcast co-host admitted that she was looking up to her less-than progressive family growing up without critically thinking about the opinions they espoused.
Nonetheless, she said that she "should have known better," adding: "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."
The star she stressed that she's grown immensely since her remarks. "I am 27 years old now and I've had so much time to learn and grow and formulate my own opinions and they are nothing like they were when I was 17, 18 years old," she said. Brooke added: "Obviously I know there are some people who are not going to care for me anymore and I understand that. I need you to know this is not how I think and that is not what I believe, she said."
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