Embattled host of ABC’s moneymaker franchise The Bachelor, Chris Harrison has been weathering the controversy of his ill-fated appearance on Extra correspondent and former Bachelorette, Rachel Lindsay’s TV segment, where the two had a fiery discussion about current Bachelor contestant Rachel Kirkconnell’s resurfaced social media posts.
The damning images confirmed her participation in a racist sorority formal back in 2018, and that discovery initiated the streak of bad press for a lucratively popular franchise that’s trying to restore its reputation by employing more diversity, with the first-ever Black Bachelor and Bachelorette, after decades of nonchalance.
Harrison’s attempt to diplomatically smoothen things over took a turn for the worse when he combatively tried to minimize the seriousness of Kirkconnell’s past transgressions, by humanizing her offensiveness with excuses for why what she did long ago is no longer relevant, or worth the danger of the online harassment she and her family are being subjected to.
There was not an ounce of empathy for Rachel Lindsay, a Black woman, whose historic presence on ABC’s most viable offering conveniently helped to activate the diversity plan.
It was distressing as a Black woman to watch another Black woman fighting against being…
