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Why Bravo’s “Real Housewives” Is Stuck With a Racism Problem
The landscape of reality TV is undergoing a radical update to accommodate the new era of “wokeness” and the mandates according to “cancel culture” that dictates the banishment of the worst among us, who can’t buy their way out of the social consequences of their reprehensible actions — regardless of accumulated years and acquired wisdom.
If you think being “cancelled” as a formerly functional A-lister is a walk in the park, then you haven’t met a very depressed and desperately isolated Chrissy Teigen, who recently confessed the heavy toll her “punishment” is taking on her mental health, as she grapples with the all-consuming dilemma of deciding how and when to reclaim her throne as “Queen of Twitter.”
But consider that Bravo, the number one destination for “reality TV gems” has never struggled with the sticky situations that arise when well-compensated Housewives say or do things that are undeniably racist.
The damning vault contains the scathing ignorance of a slew of white Housewives, who’ve done everything from calling an assembled crew of Brown men and women attendants — “servants” — to stupidly donning rasta wigs as a terrible homage to their arrival in Jamaica. It’s all stunning evidence of how Bravo executives capitalize on the lucrativeness of televised toxicity.
