The alleged tweets by Garrett posted to the social media site largely come from last year, with one tweet posted in 2015; in them, Black Lives Matter are labelled “a terrorist group”, all feminists are deemed ugly, and Hillary Clinton is apparently equivalent to a westernised version of Kim Jong-Un.
Though ABC found praise in debuting the first-ever black Bachelorette in Rachel Lindsay, the show now faces sudden controversy.
ABC have declined to comment and could not confirm the authenticity of the tweets.
A slew of offensive tweets allegedly from contestant Lee Garrett, a 30-year-old singer-songwriter from Nashville, have surfaced on social media, including one that reads: “What’s the difference between the NAACP and the KKK?