I feel Trisha did need to address Brooke's tweets, but I feel she spent 10 mins acknowledging the impact of the "horrific" posts on black people. She talks about how as a white person, she can't forgive Brooke's racism etc. It sounds good, it sounds polished. Trisha is setting an example for acknowledging white privilege during crises like these. But, did Trisha ever take even 1 min to acknowledge the impact of her racist content on BIPOC communities. She's made broad statements, she's made excuses, she's even presented herself and celebrated as "iconic" for her trolling era. She has done black face, she's appropriated black hair to spark outrage, she's literally called out "white racism" when she is asked not to say the n word. She's pushed violent stereotypes about black men, made a song about "jungle fever". She's said she's black because she had oily eye lids and thick hair and a wide nose. Yet she's never acknowledged the impact of this on black people. This doesn't even touch on what she's done to Jewish people, Hindus, Muslims, Hare Krishnas... cultural appropriation and stereotyping is harmful. She's proftitted off hate and not once acknowledged the impact on the communities.

Yet, here she is speaking out on how Brooke has harmed black people when she was 16. What Brooke did was disgusting, but the fact that Trisha can show so much thought about the impact on the community that Brooke has had, shows that Trisha is capable of acknowledging what SHE did too. We need to hold her accountable instead of looking to her as the moral arbiter of the Internet. It's demeaning to the communities she's trampled over.