![]() ![]() ![]() they see that diverse love stories are beautiful. ![]() I'm just going to lean into myself and how my mom raised me, and hopefully when people invite me into their homes on Monday night. this is hopefully the first of many Black men to be in the position I'm at now. "She has a very important voice in all this, being the first Black woman, person of color to be a lead, and. "When Rachel speaks, we listen," James previously expressed. "If the National Football League, an organization notoriously known for not standing behind their athletes of color, can come out to make a statement to condemn racism and their systemic oppression and admit they were wrong for not listening in the past, then the Bachelor franchise can most certainly follow suit," she previously said. Matt then shares his first real on-screen kiss with Abigail, and next went searching for the first impression rose, while all the other gals got jealous. One of Matts contestants who was generating. Prior to James, Lindsay had been vocal about the show's apparent lack of diversity and asked her fellow Bachelor Nation members to speak up about the issues within the franchise. Abigail Heringer on 'The Bachelor' Matt James ’ season of The Bachelor is almost over and the group of women is getting smaller. In The Bachelor franchise's 18 years on television (which spans 40 seasons), the showrunners only selected one Black lead of the show: Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay, who gave her now-husband Bryan Abasolo the first impression rose. Getty Images How Bachelor Nation Reacted to Matt James as the Bachelor Together, the dynamic duo runs ABC Food Tours, which offers children from various communities the chance to explore the city with mental and physical wellness as a priority. James is best friends with another beloved member of Bachelor Nation, Tyler Cameron. "When filming couldn't move forward as planned, we were given the benefit of time to get to know Matt and all agreed he would make a perfect Bachelor." "Matt has been on our radar since February, when producers first approached him to join Bachelor Nation, as part of Clare's season," Karey Burke, president of ABC Entertainment said in June. In summer 2020, a petition demanding the network and the show's executive producer Mike Fleiss cast more diverse contestants was created in tandem with the Black Lives Matter movement. ABC's decision to announce James as the new lead comes after the show received mass criticism for its lack of diversity-most glaringly noticeable among its leads. James attended Wake Forest University, where he was a football player and an economics major. ![]()
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