Brooke Schofield has been forced to apologize after a series of racist tweets she made as a 15 to 18-year-old. Good thing the internet keeps receipts. The popular lifestyle influencer, who boasts more than 2.2 million followers on TikTok, issued two apologies for remarks that included the man who killed Trayvon Martin in 2012.
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In part one of her apology, shared on August 5, she attempted to explain the context but instead tried to dodge accountability. “Unfortunately, those are not fake, they are real tweets of things that I said,” she said. “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.”
She went on to explain that her grandfather was “ring-wing conservative” and “the only thing ever that I had been exposed to” were conservative political commentators and news outlets. In a follow-up video, she reflected on what she said, acknowledging that, “I made none of the points that I should have been making … Sorry is not enough, in my opinion,” and added that “even though I was a teenager, I was old enough to know better.” While Brook Schofield’s racist tweets have been deleted, the internet keeps receipts (captured by @PopCrave), although this is by no means an exhaustive list.
On the evening of February 26, 2012, in Sanford, Florida, neighborhood watch George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African-American, who was visiting his father. Zimmerman was charged with second-degree murder for Martin’s death, but acquitted by the jury after claiming self-defense, although Martin was not carrying a weapon. It was widely argued that Zimmerman had been motivated by racism. This was Brooke’s response.
Some people on Twitter agreed with her, so she doubled down.
Brooke then says for people to “quit acting like Zimmerman shot n killed a child,” despite immediately using the descriptor “kid” and referencing Trayvon’s age that means he is, legally, a child.
smh.
On the day Donald Trump won the 2016 election, Brooke shared his MAGA mantra on Twitter.
