When it comes to places that enable racism, work environment, including the set of TV shows, is among the places where black community experience unfair treatment or being the subject of stereotypes.
- August 2, 2020
AceShowbiz - Also being criticized for the lack of diversity in its cast members is "The Bachelor" franchise. It takes 24 seasons and 13 seasons for "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" respectively to have a black contestant as the lead.
Back in June, Rachel Lindsay, the first black lead on "The Bachelorette", discussed "a racist contestant on my season," referring to Lee Garrett. "They said they hadn't done a good job of vetting out that he was racist or had done racist things in the past -- but I would hope in the future it would never happen again. They received a lot of heat from that," she explained.
Further wanting to change things, "The Bachelor" announced in June that Matt James would front the 25th run of the show, marking the first black male to lead the ABC dating show in the franchise's history. "I think we're all following suit in that conversation, and this is hopefully... the first of many black men to be in the position that I'm in now (sic)," James said of being the first Bachelor.
