A current contestant on The Bachelorette issued an apology after past tweets bashing Black women and the LGBTQ+ community resurfaced online. “The last thing that I want to do is run from it,” Justin Glaze, 27, said, according to People. “I just want to speak from the heart, and hopefully, people will get an understanding of where I was then versus where I am now,” he continued. The tweets in question reportedly included homophobic slurs and jokes about Black women that perpetuate colorism and were written and posted in 2009 and 2011 when Glaze was a teen. In one of the tweets, Glaze wrote he couldn’t date someone “if she dark as @FlavorFlav” or someone who has a “body big enough to be an avatar.” In other posts, he also said that movies should have a “well spoken caucasian cashier, they need to have a rude black b**** as a cashier once.”