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Justin Trudeau pictured wearing blackface in new video as third racist incident emerges

This April 2001 photo, which appeared in a newsletter from the West Point Grey Academy, shows a costumed Justin Trudeau, his face and hands darkened by makeup, attending an "Arabian Nights" gala. The academy is a private school in Vancouver, B.C., where Trudeau worked as a teacher before entering politics. (West Point Grey Academy/The Canadian Press via AP)

Justin Trudeau faced further embarrassment Thursday after a new picture and video surfaced displaying the Canadian prime minister carrying blackface, the 0.33 such incident to emerge in the beyond 24 hours.

A video obtained through Global News suggests Trudeau protected in dark makeup together with his hands inside the air giggling, sticking out his tongue and making faces. His legs and arms are included in black make-up as properly. The video became shot within the Nineteen Nineties but it is doubtful wherein it befell.

News of the photos comes an afternoon after Globe and Mail's Robert Fife tweeted a photograph of Trudeau carrying an afro wig and making a song the Jamaican tune "Day-O," during an expertise show in the early Nineties at Jean Brebeuf excessive school.

Trudeau had already apologized Wednesday after a school yearbook image emerged of him sporting dark make-up and a turban at an Arabian Nights birthday celebration in 2001. The prime minister said, "it turned into a dumb factor to do."

Time magazine posted the image, which it stated became published inside the yearbook from the West Point Grey Academy, a non-public college in British Columbia where Trudeau labored as a teacher earlier than coming into politics.

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Trudeau had already apologized Wednesday after a school yearbook image emerged of him wearing dark makeup and a turban at an Arabian Nights party in 2001. The prime minister said, "it was a dumb thing to do." Time magazine posted the photo, which it said was published in the yearbook from the West Point Grey Academy<a data-cke-saved-href="https://bbk12e1-cdn.myschoolcdn.com/ftpimages/464/misc/misc_203131.pdf" href="https://bbk12e1-cdn.myschoolcdn.com/ftpimages/464/misc/misc_203131.pdf" target="_blank">,</a> a private school in British Columbia where Trudeau worked as a teacher before entering politics.  (West Point Grey Academy)

Trudeau, who released his reelection campaign a little over per week in the past, informed reporters traveling with him on his campaign plane that he must have acknowledged better.

"I'm frustrated at myself, I'm upset in myself," he stated.

"I must have recognized better than however, I failed to, and I am deeply sorry for it," he delivered. "I'm going to invite Canadians to forgive me for what I did. I shouldn't have done that. I take duty for it."

It's uncertain what, if any, political effects Trudeau may face as he seeks any other time period. Pre-photo polls in Canada display him facing a severe undertaking from Conservative leader Andrew Scheer.

Following Trudeau's apology, Scheer advised newshounds, "Wearing blackface is an act of open mockery and racism. It became just as racist in 2001 as it is in 2019."

Trudeau is simply the modern-day politicians to come back below fireplace for posing in racially offensive photos.

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