*Portland sportscaster Lamar Hurd is vying to become ABC’s first African American “Bachelor.”
For 16 seasons, the show has featured single white men or women selecting a mate from a pool of eligible applicants who compete for his or her love — and possibly a marriage proposal on the season finale. On “The Bachelor” shows in particular, it gets a little catty in the house with nothing but women going after the same man. Crazy.
There are usually one or two people of color among the contestants competing for the final rose. But black women are usually eliminated early on.
Creator Mike Fleiss, however, said it was never his intention for the show to be so white.
“It’s just that for whatever reason, they don’t come forward. I wish they would,” he told Entertainment Weekly.
Well, at least one person has come forward. If things work out, Lamar Hurd (pictured above) would be the first black bachelor on the show. Learn all about Lamar’s quest via the video below.
As we wait, one must beg the question, is America really ready to watch a bunch of white women scrap over a black man? And how will black women react to it?
I’m sure a non-black will be chosen and the black ones will be eliminated first. They may keep two tokens on the run for viewership. I pass on this. LOL
I wish like hell that no Black women are in the running for this guy because we all know the outcome. I’m assuming the women are paid quite well to submit themselves for ridicule but it’s going to be the height of humiliation once another one stand before the world declaring doing what is expected of him.
This will never work. We must keep in mind that blacks are a minority in this country and the black experience isn’t transferable as is the white experience (translation: we will watch shows about them but they don’t typically watch shows about us). In view of that, having a black bachelor/lead would dramatically impact viewership and ratings and that wouldn’t make dollars or “sense” to the execs. It’s a no go.
I love the Bachelor and I look forward to the new season.
I treid watching the first couple of times but I jsut could not do it any longer the show is so stupid and the women on there are total desperate airheads, now look and see if a few women act llike the idiots on B-ball wives/Mob wives and start fighting over this guy. LOL!!!!
they need to bring back I Love New York
Let me guess the outcome.There will be a bunch of white women a few minorites sprinkled in and he will choose th white woman! Nothing new here.
You got it. I certainly won’t watch it and haven’t for years. The women sit around looking like hungry hyenas ready to do anything (even on camera).
I have to give the producer of this tepid series credit for trying to have a black theme – but like one of the posters stated earlier… “we [black people] will watch their shows, but they will not watch anything that has an entirely ‘black ensemble”! Network execs. are going to lose a lot of money and this show will tank if in fact it’s to come to fruition. Plus, I don’t won’t to see black people in general on TV portrayed as minstrel show buffoons, and having sista’s getting and acting loud the way they portray black women on other shows…. totally despicable and not a true representation of the African American reality! Now, if they had Paul Mooney (writer of Sanford and Son, comedian and activist) as the Bachelor, the show would be off the hook – because bro’ would be putting some of the ladies thru the wringer. Dude, tells it like it is and is funny as hell. No holds barred with Paul Mooney as he would tell some the the white women [the Tiger Woods gold diggers] what the hell he thinks of them!
Too bad Arsenio isn’t the bachelor.
Why is every discussion racial?