Rachel Lindsay Shuts Down Leah Block’s Racially Insensitive Tweet

It’s been a tough couple of days for Bachelor contestant Leah Block, who is under fire for tweeting a racially insensitive joke about Rachel Lindsay’s season of The Bachelorette.

(Scroll down for Rachel’s reply)

UPDATE: Leah apologized for the tweet in a l statement posted to Facebook. She wrote in part, “I come forward honestly and openly, to extend my sincere apology for the tweet from my account on Monday, June 19th regarding the current season of The Bachelorette. The tweet came from a place that humored the failure of representation of minorities in reality TV and belittled the significance of Rachel’s presence on the show.”

Leah, who competed on Ben Higgins season of The Bachelor and also appeared in season 3 of Bachelor in Paradise tweeted an inappropriate joke while watching an episode of The Bachelorette.

Here’s what she tweeted:

“I’m sitting here watching @BacheloretteABC and my roommate just sat down on the couch and said, ‘What is this? @LoveAndHipHop_? DEAD.”

Here’s how Rachel responded.

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