10 former RI students behind blackface group photo issue apology; school condemns their actions

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Now woke to the highly insensitive actions they did four years ago, a group of former Raffles Institution students who posed in blackface for a photo have all spoken out about their own immaturity and ignorance in their youth. 

The internet was rightfully repulsed by a picture posted on an Instagram account in April 2016 — a photo of a student, believed to be of Sri Lankan descent, surrounded by 10 others donning black beauty face masks. 

This, on top of the group standing with a paper bag with the label “whitening kit” — all apparently part of the birthday celebrations for the brown student. Though he gave his consent to posting the photo, it’d be hard to imagine that he was completely comfortable with his so-called friends spotlighting the colour of his skin in such a manner. 

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