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Anything posted on the internet stays on the internet — a tough lesson for a group of former Raffles Institution (RI) students who took a problematic photo four years ago.
And it has returned to haunt them today in a particularly sensitive climate for issues on race and civil injustice.
The former RI student who posted the picture on his Instagram account in April 2016 now regrets what he and his friends did together with an Indian friend. The photo — found and reposted on Twitter today (June 3) by someone outside the group — has since been taken down from his page.
In the photo, a student of Indian ethnicity is posing in front of a paper bag that’s labelled with his name and the words “whitening kit”. Posing around him are his schoolmates, all of them smiling with black beauty face masks on, akin to black face.
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