‘Bachelor Klan:’ Former Bachelorette Rachel Lindsey Says Franchise Has “Spent 19 Years Cultivating A Toxic Audience”
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deadline.comAfter months of controversy over racism allegations against longtime host Chris Harrison, which led to Harrison’s departure from the ABC franchise, the first Black Bachelorette has penned an op-ed in New York magazine.
Rachel Lindsay called the piece “an opportunity to tell my story and share my experience with the Bachelor franchise.”“The franchise has spent 19 years cultivating a toxic audience,” wrote Lindsay. “They have constantly given it a product it wants: a midwestern/southern white, blonde, light-eyed Christian.
Not all viewers are like that. My Higher Learning [podcast] co-host and I have divided it – there is a Bachelor Nation, and there is a Bachelor Klan.”She said that bachelor Klan subset is “hateful, racist, misogynistic,
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