Damaging pictures of the now prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, have emerged online of his younger-self wearing black make-up to impersonate, and others argue, to mock black people.
The prime minister who finds himself in a tight re-election campaign has appeared in at least three separate instances in what experts refer to as blackface and termed as racist due to the negative representation of non-white people, mainly by white actors, such images represented back in the mid 19th century.
The Canadian prime minister who first apologized on Wednesday when the first picture of his younger self appeared online, was forced to make yet another apology on Thursday following the revelation of a second photo and a video of him in separate events wearing blackface.
"I shouldn't have done it. I should have known better, but I didn't, and I'm really sorry." said the Canadian PM while peaking to reporters on a plane "The fact is I didn't understand how hurtful this is to people who live with discrimination every day," he added.
The beleaguered Prime Minister also revealed on Thursday that he has no idea of how many times he might have worn blackface and that he's not sure of how many other such damaging pictures are likely to come out in the coming days.
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