Matt James, this season’s star of “The Bachelor,” took to Twitter during tonight’s episode to address the conversation he had with his father on-screen before heading into fantasy suite dates.
The deeply personal conversation is garnering a considerable amount of attention on social media with many calling the scene exploitative.
The negative social media attention is the latest chatter to cast a cloud over this season of “The Bachelor,” which has been airing — per usual — as a racist controversy centered around its longtime host, Chris Harrison, and frontrunner contestant, Rachael Kirkconnell, continues to explode in real-time off-screen.
As Monday night’s episode was airing, James — the first-ever Black Bachelor in the franchise’s history — cautioned viewers on social media about the “dangerous stereotypes and “negative depictions” of Black fathers in media.
“Tonight’s convo with my dad was hard to experience, and it’s just as hard to watch all this time later,...
The deeply personal conversation is garnering a considerable amount of attention on social media with many calling the scene exploitative.
The negative social media attention is the latest chatter to cast a cloud over this season of “The Bachelor,” which has been airing — per usual — as a racist controversy centered around its longtime host, Chris Harrison, and frontrunner contestant, Rachael Kirkconnell, continues to explode in real-time off-screen.
As Monday night’s episode was airing, James — the first-ever Black Bachelor in the franchise’s history — cautioned viewers on social media about the “dangerous stereotypes and “negative depictions” of Black fathers in media.
“Tonight’s convo with my dad was hard to experience, and it’s just as hard to watch all this time later,...
- 3/9/2021
- by Ellise Shafer and Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
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