Adam Rapoport steps down as editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit after brownface photo surfaces

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Adam Rapoport is stepping down from Bon Appétit

Adam Rapoport will step down as editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit after a photo of him in brownface at a 2013 party was posted on Twitter on Monday morning.posted on Instagram, Rapoport apologized for “my failings” and said he was resigning “to reflect on the work that I need to do as a human being and to allow Bon Appétit to get to a better place.”

In the Instagram caption accompanying the photo, which was originally posted by Rapoport’s wife, Simone Shubuck, she wrote,"#TBT me and my papi @rapo4 #boricua.” Many Puerto Ricans in the U.S. colloquially refer to themselves as Boricua. Chef Sohla El-Waylly, an assistant editor at BA who has appeared in several of the magazine’s test kitchen videos, said in her Instagram story that she had asked for Rapoport’s resignation.

She contended that writers and editors of color are paid substantially less than their white counterparts at the magazine.“I’ve been at Bon Appétit for 10 months. I am 35 years old and have over 15 years of professional experience,” El-Waylly wrote. “I was hired as an assistant editor at $50k to assist mostly white editors with significantly less experience than me.”

 

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the has a few of those hiding out too

lucaspeterson Your story completely missed what actually happened. This discussion started yesterday when Sola posted that only the white BA video personalities were being paid for their video content. Rappo getting called out was just another example of his cluelessness.

How long ago was this and how old was he at the time? At some point, this is just youthful indiscretion/ignorance. I’d hate to be judged now for something stupid I did years and years ago.

GustavoArellano 🤔

Mira, majos_eh.

lucaspeterson What’s the appropriate avenue to suggest a correction?

lucaspeterson Dumb question but was it actually brown face was it the outfit itself?

That’ll teach those recipes.

Why, for goodness sake. If you can sincerely say I'm sorry and that's not going to happen again - then go forward. Besides it was probably yummy chocolate icing.

Controversy in the food industry.

The brownface was the least of his problems

The Governor of Virginia is in blackface\\wearing KKK attire, yet not one Democrat called for his resignation.

who?

Rapoport will step down after a photo of him in brownface at a 2013 party was posted on Twitter on Monday morning. In a statement posted on Instagram, Rapoport apologized for “my failings.'

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