Matt James & Rachel Kirkconnell from The Bachelor

Never watched this show before, but checked it out for this season for OBVIOUS reason, it reminds me of the Flavour of Love LOOL.

I'd assume the ratings were lower once they allowed a BM to be Bachelor of a very white-male dominated show

My opinion on Matt, he's playing the show very politically and doesn't come off genuine.
His desire to find someone that can get "vulnerable" with him, is a very strange focus for a relationship.
He should focus on finding a stable relationship with a stable woman that's ready to commit.
Maybe not having his father around has impacted his thought-process on dating, he seems very emotional.

 

They're already attacking him on social media for not paying extra attention to the black women, he's actually playing it fair, but obviously, he's not able to follow his heart.

 

It has died down. There are only a few among the female social media engagement that are attacking him, but the media keeps giving the narrative weight it can't carry on it's own. Like I said before the favorites among "bachelornation" have been mostly white women with Katie leading this week. So it just goes to show that certain media outlets out there are ALSO against bm/ww relationships for how they keep paying attention to something that is dying down just trying to stir them up so that they'll stay around.

Hopefully more and more folks highlight the double standard because BOTH of the black female bachelors picked white men. And they both support him so I wonder if he does pick a white woman will they defend him, turn on him or go silent?

 

I would love to see that, the double standard is CHRONNNIICCC
Having this on a grand scale, on a popular show, is necessary to push the key point.

That BM are being bullied and taunted for dating-out, while BW are praised.

 

And just like that

The 'frontrunner' on season 25 of The Bachelor Rachael Kirkconnell has her racist past put out front and center.
https://ew.com/tv/rachael-kirkconnel-bachelor-apology/

And the host Chris Harrison is stepping down and won't be on the finale of the show after his comments on the matter:
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1360673047057956864


All of the racism and stuff seem to have come out and all of sudden not tolerated once a black man became 'The Bachelor'. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I don't remember the two black 'Bachelorettes' having fans dive into the white male contestants past and any of them being exposed for racism. It just so happens all of this comes out and boils over with white female contestants on a season that features a BLACK 'Bachelor'.

And of course those "fans" are back to blame it on you know who.

 

I don't think he has the testicular fortitude to pick who he wants, I think he'll cave a pick a black chick because he's afraid of the usual hypocritical suspects attacking him.

That's not a man, that's a little boy when you let outside forces dictate your life.

 

Yeah I'm hep to that. But with all of the progress of IR between bm/ww on TV and movies I thought they wouldn't feed that beast. I thought it would've been something else they would've create controversy out of. But episode after episode I was wrong wrong wrong. lol.

They definitely wanted to hype up the racial tension with the first black 'bachelor'. They pretty much left it alone with the black female 'bachelorettes'.

 

That reminds me of a conversation I had with my nieces and some of the women in my family with the hype around Disney's first black princesses. I had some similar things to say about them expecting too much for black representation from white owned companies. Didn't go over too well but my other niece got my point.

Anyway as a big fan of Interracial in all of Art as I have shown in my post about some of the IR literature and history. And the art pieces and photos you and others post in the 'Lovers Only' and 'Lover's Only II' forums that are simply beautiful. I be meaning to post some in those parts of the forum but you guys find things I can't seem to find. That's why I be asking where do ya'll find those pic and vids from. lol. They're wonderful. But I'm also really a fan of arts & science overall and I always try to remember what I told my family members when it comes to art in movies, music and TV shows. Just who is controlling it. Art in Movies, music and TV at times have shown to be informative and expressive of knowledge and messages like The Matrix and one of my favorite IR films The United Kingdom. But there is that side we do have to remember that is (purposely)counterproductive. So it is best not to take it that deep and become one of the sheep to it.

The Bachelor isn't really my cup of tea but they reeled me in with the intrigue of The Black Bachelor. I kind of new those things would happen, but just try to give the benefit of the doubt once it died down some in the middle of the season where people weren't really paying attention to it. But the media was like nope nope we're making this a thing. lol. My fault right there and thanks for reminding me of that. Great Post, @Tamstrong

 

I just watched this week's episode. How did y'all know Rachael was frontrunner back than?

 

Last month, insiders leaked information revealing that Rachael Kirkconnell was going to be a finalist. Look no further than Youtube for videos about the current season for confirmation.

 

Looking at my YouTube feed/recommendations yesterday & doing a YouTube search just now after seeing @SilverSmith's post, it looks like this whole scandal spoiled the season.

 

Yeah pretty much what @SilverSmith said and their interactions on past episodes were obvious.

 

I stopped watching. Never was a fan to begin with but gave it a shot with the first black bachelor and once it became clear of their motives racially I was out. That scandal is manufactured instigated.

 

Monday's episode, for me, was the last. He posted a statement on Instagram calling for the franchise to be more racially sensitive. What the hell, man, it's a reality dating show.

 

Yeah both Matt & the black bacheorlette Rachel Lindsey just come off as virtue signaling in these "Good Morning America" & "Entertainment Tonight" clips from Yesterday:

If you do a youtube search for "the bachelor rachael" like I did, the winner & the current status of Matt's relationship with the winner is spoiled for you. But I think Matt hinted at it with his IG post this week.

 

Chris was actually right where he said "where was this lense at in 2018?" Which further proves they knew where they were going with all of this. Like I said it's manufactured. No one dug up the white male contestants racist past for the black female bachelorettes, but they just so happen to find things about a white female on a black male bachelor's show. Who is "coincidently" the frontrunner.

 

I just watched Ben Shapiro's breakdown of the whole controversy:

Spoiler

Woah, I didn't realize that Matt originally defended Racheal earlier this month & Chris Harrison's alleged controversial comments was basically just a rehash of what Matt said when he defended Racheal and now Matt denounced both of them this week. What a shit show! Looks like Matt just buckled under pressure. This whole controversy is validating why I've always said I had no interest in a black "The Bachelor".

 

Ben Shapiro is one of the most arrogantly willful ignorant talkingheads when it comes to racism(and fans the flames of racism), but his take on Matt and the "woke" police are correct here.