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Last week, a 19-year-old model named Romanie Schotte was crowned Miss Belgium.
Unfortunately, her happy coronation was quickly tainted with scandal after she was called out for being racist on social media.
In a now deleted post on Instagram, the beauty queen was caught agreeing with a user who made a derogatory remark about a black man in the background of her photo. Thankfully, one diligent Twitter user shared the image and instead of berating and/or blocking him immediately like any decent person would do, she said "I know."
She also used the poop emoji to describe the human being in her pic.
The craziest thing about this whole situation? Miss Belgium doesn't even know why she's being accused of being racist — AND tried to defend that since her dad worked in Africa she COULDN'T hate black people.
Romanie buried herself deeper by defending to the Belgian press that she thought the emoji was a "smiley face" and/or a "chocolate ice cream."
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