Teen model 'sorry' for racist Facebook posts

Source: ninemsn

A Darwin teen model who has been disqualified from a 'Grid Girls' competition over a racist post on her Facebook page says she did not realize her comments would be such a big deal.

Ellen Musk, 19, was an entrant in the Finke Desert Race Grid Girls contest and was hoping to be selected as one of 10 winners who would go on to become voluntary ambassadors for the race.

But a status update on her Facebook profile last Thursday morning has led to her disqualification.

"All I can hear is very absurd c--ns yelling angrily from downstairs and I'm on level 22 WTF?" she posted.

The comment prompted many angry responses from friends, to which Ms Musk replied: "Ok, is n--ga a better word?"

Ms Musk insists she meant no harm.

"I posted a status on Facebook… just thinking it's Facebook, it's just my friends, it's nothing that’s going to end up in the news, nothing that anybody's going to have a big crack about," she told ninemsn.

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