Rachel Lindsay wants to make sure that the Bachelor’s degree franchise learns from its mistakes of the past. In the midst of criticism of the white majority and heteronormative dating show, the former attorney, who became the first Black Bachelorette in 2017, argued for a greater diversity in the level of leadership and process improvement research in a recent appearance on Watch What Happens Live.
“You need a person of color in the decision of the board”.
Lindsay said he hopes that these glaring errors are addressed before ABC begins filming with Matt James, recently announced as the franchise’s first Black Bachelor. “I had a racist contestant on my station, which is one of the things that I’m striving for with Matt James — as the first Black Bachelor — for them to do a better job of vetting contestants,” Lindsay said, referring to Lee Garrett, who had published a series of racist and sexist tweets before competing on the show. She added, “We need a person of color in the decision of the board, decision-making, so that doesn’t happen to them.”
When his classmates WWHL guest Cory Booker said he hoped controversial contestants were not intended to be a history, Lindsay replied, “They said that they do not do a good job of background research to determine that it was racist or had done racist things in the past, but I hope that in the future it does not happen again ever. It is a story that should not happen, and that he received a large amount of heat from that.” See the lighting of the previous interview.
