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Boy Meets Racist Girl and Any Potential for a Spark Goes Up in Cross-Burning Flames

On "The Bachelor's" First Black Leading Man Pursuing Love and Encountering Casual Racism

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Donney Rose
Feb 26, 2021
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A classic spin on the age-old refrain of “boy meets girl” goes a little something like this:

(Black) boy...see man, meets (white) girl...see a fully-aware adult, on the 25th season of a reality show framed around single men finding their soul mate. Black boy learns that the white girl he met, one of many on the show, has a casual racist history which inc…

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