Rachel Lindsay is f**king tired.
The former Bachelorette has spent the years since her 2017 run as the franchises first Black lead as the spokesperson for the long-running dating shows many issues around race. She co-hosts the official podcast of the franchise, Bachelor Happy Hour, and often takes on the burden of educating the shows white viewers about race and racism. In 2020, she publicly stated that she would cut ties with the franchise if production didnt meaningfully address their race and diversity problems.
Less than a year later, Lindsay was in the midst of interviewing franchise host and executive producer Chris Harrison for Extra when things went sideways . Lindsay brought up the latest Bachelor scandal: Rachael Kirkconnell, one of the women cast to date Matt James, the first Black Bachelor, had attended a plantation-themed formal in 2018 and had liked posts of pictures containing Confederate flags. During a 15-minute conversation, Harrison defended and asked for grace for Kirkconnell, excoriated the woke police for attacking her, and repeatedly talked over Lindsay.
On the next episode of Higher Learning, a Ringer podcast Lindsay co-hosts, she was clear: Enough was enough. Im contractually bound in some ways, she said. But when its up, I am too. I cant do it anymore.
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