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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrying to sue the Bachelor and the Bachelorette into diversity?
I don't know about you, but this does not seem like a good strategy. They will have a hell of a hard time proving systematic discrimination, and even if they do it will take years and years (at which time the show may have run its course anyway).
If this is really important to them, a boycott would get action from ABC much faster than a lengthy lawsuit.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/21/the-bachelor-and-bachelorette-inside-the-racial-discrimination-lawsuit.html
May 21, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
Any TV viewer with eyes has noticed The Bachelors and The Bachelorettes persistent whiteness. Can a class-action lawsuit force the shows to become diverse? Jennifer L. Pozner reports .
Skinny, weepy white women + horny, wealthy white men = love.
That calculus has governed casting on The Bachelor since its 2002 debut on ABC. Ten years, one spinoff (The Bachelorette), and 24 seasons later, every star of TVs oldest reality romance franchise has been white. So were 22 of the 25 hopefuls on The Bachelorettes Season 8 premiere last week. With that history, it came as no surprise that we heard almost no dialogue from the lone black contestant, Lerone, or that Southern blonde Emily Maynard sent him packing at the end of the episode. (On Twitter, one viewer suggested a #MenOfColorCountdown to see how long the Brazilian grain merchant and Colombian mushroom farmer will last.)
Now, a racial discrimination lawsuit aims to prove that this casting math isnt only faultyits illegal.
On April 18, two African-American men, Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson, filed a class-action suit alleging that ABC; the shows production companies, Warner Horizon, Next Entertainment, NZK Productions; and the shows creator, Mike Fleiss, knowingly, intentionally, and as a matter of corporate policy refused to cast people of color in the role of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. The complaint charges that this intentional scheme of deliberate exclusion underscores the significant barriers that people of color continue to face in the media and the broader marketplace.
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JI7
(89,283 posts)and i say this as one of them.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Is it racist if you decide not to date black people (or whites or hispanics or whomever).
Confusious
(8,317 posts)Overweight people or Skinny people? Are you being lookist if you don't date people you don't find attractive?
Are you being classist if you don't date bums? It's ridiculous.
While most of this is, I think, humorous, there is a seriousness to it.
On, and I can't stand PC words, so I just filled in what I thought they might be.
dkf
(37,305 posts)Do all those prospective dates really want to be with the star of the show or are they complete fakes? Worst idea ever.
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)dkf
(37,305 posts)provis99
(13,062 posts)and a black bachelorette is chosen....and she gets to choose between 20 white guys.
Would that make them happy?
TheKentuckian
(25,035 posts)probably still a down the pipe a bit so there will be time to work the details out.
uponit7771
(90,370 posts)...these statistical "anomalies" are becoming overt
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)and made their relationship last.
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)can't remember her name. I think they have a couple of kids.
This whole concept is just plain weird to me.
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)Bad TV should be an equal opportunity employer.
FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)How many times can you say "Amazing". So naturally, shallow people would have a big advantage there.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)Tyler Perry better watch out.