Miss SA entrant in hot water over old tweets
Miss SA 2020 entrant, Bianca Schoombee, is facing a social media storm after her 6-year-old racist and insulting tweets surfaced.
Black Twitter will find you and your past.
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Bianca Schoombee, a 21-year-old environmentalist from Johannesburg, discovered when she woke up that she'd started trending on social media, but for all the wrong reasons.
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Twitter was flooded with screenshots of racist and insulting tweets that she posted 6 years ago, when she was allegedly 14-years-old.
lemme make a thread for everyone who’s gonna be lost when they wake up..
— lola🦋 (@daddilola) May 19, 2020
here’s your queen; Bianca Schoombee in tweets pic.twitter.com/8N8JgffVHh
Schoombee apologised and deleted two of her offensive tweets, but tweeps were not buying her 'PR' apology.
— Bianca Schoombee (@BIANCA1015Z) May 20, 2020
Racism isn’t a stage or a phase! #Bianca pic.twitter.com/4wrZ1iLu10
— MPHO 🌻 (@IG_Dash_Kaay) May 20, 2020
I think its best you take a chill from twitter
— Nomfundo Mcetywa (@MaMcetywa) May 20, 2020
More files on Bianca being racist she was having the time of her live 🙆🏾♂️🙆🏾♂️🙆🏾♂️ #BiancaMustFall pic.twitter.com/zdOKmCU7hP
— 2019AFRICA (@2019AFRICA) May 20, 2020
We're not sure what this means for her Miss South Africa journey, but we'll be watching and keeping you posted.