Oregon City Woman Pictured in Racist Tweet Apologizes

A woman who was one of a group of friends who posed in the parking lot of the Albertson's in Oregon City in front of a sign with the N-word and Ku Klux Klan imagery has apologized, writing on Twitter that she recognizes the poster "was disgusting and completely racist."

The woman - who tweets under @babykyliee23 - was one of six people welcoming a friend back from college, she says.

The person who was being welcomed home - @rachel_lynnnnn - tweeted a photo on Sunday of her and her friends in front of a hand-written sign that said "Welcome back to the farm (a variation of the N-word)" with a drawing of a person who appears to be a Klan member.

Above the photo she wrote: I honestly couldn't ask for a better group of people to call my best friends! Probably good they didn't bring this sign into the airport!"

The woman who apologized said she had no idea what the poster said when she joined the picture.

"I only got in the picture because I was excited my friend was home from college," she tweeted.

"I apologize to every single person this offends. I screwed up by being in this picture and I know that but I can't change it as much as I wish I could. This is not the kind of person I am and/or want to make myself out to be. I apologize wholeheartedly."

Since the photo started to be widely circulated on social media, the woman has also tweeted that she hates herself and "my true friends know the real me and know that post isn't who I am...that's the only thing keeping me going."

While the original tweet has been made private, people have been tweeting out screen shots. One of those tweets has been retweeted hundreds of times and liked hundreds more.

The Oregonian - which first reported the controversy - says that the seven are all current and former students at Oregon City High School.

A spokeswoman for the Oregon City School District told the paper that they started an immediate investigation and have started a series of conversations with the student body.