Skip to main content
'Bachelor' fans have been talking about diversity issues for years - now they're at their breaking point
Anying Guo, The Washington Post
Feb. 19, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail
3
1of3Show lead Matt James, left, and host Chris Harrison in an episode of "The Bachelor."Craig Sjodin/ABCShow MoreShow Less
2of3The contestants on the current season of "The Bachelor."Craig Sjodin/ABCShow MoreShow Less
3of3
When Myah Genung saw the disastrous interview between "The Bachelor" host Chris Harrison and former franchise star Rachel Lindsay, she was reminded of a saying: "I'm shocked, but I'm not surprised."
"If you even just pay attention to some of the interviews that Chris Harrison has given over the years, his responses were always in defense of why (they didn't have a lead of color) instead of how this is something that needs to happen," says Genung, who works as an associate director of industry relations at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism. "Almost like, 'We have a winning formula right now. Why are you asking us to be something that we aren't?'"