FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. - Fayette County’s school superintendent is apologizing after visitors in blackface entered a Whitewater High School volleyball game, calling the incident "deeply offensive" and pledging steps to ensure it does not happen again.

Blackface fans at Whitewater High volleyball game

What we know:

Superintendent Jonathan Patterson said in a letter Monday that the group included one non-Whitewater student and several adults whose bodies and faces were painted entirely black. He said administrators confronted the visitors after they entered the gym but acknowledged they should not have been allowed inside in the first place.

A viral photo shows two young men and two young women dressed entirely in black, with one man shirtless, and most of their exposed skin painted black.

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