Rachel Lindsay is offering a few ideas to “Bachelor” Nation on how to improve diversity within the franchise. Three years after making history as the first Black “Bachelorette”, and “Bachelor”, the alum has cut ties with the franchise but left some advice on her way out. “I ultimately decided to be the ‘Bachelorette’ because I knew this opportunity was bigger than me.
I knew that I wanted to present myself to an audience that had not seen a lead of colour in this role,” Lindsay wrote to her blog. “I knew that I wanted to be a trailblazer in this franchise to diversify the lead role, to diversify the contestants trying out and casted for the show, and to diversify the audience watching this show.