Personally, I would rather gouge my eyes out with an icepick than watch The Bachelor, along with every other “reality” show but a lot of people like them, and the vast majority of them are white. How would the WaPo react to a white person calling a BET show “embarrassingly black?”

Via WaPo:

“The Bachelor,” a reality show in which a single man picks a wife from a horde of eager women, can probably be criticized for a lot of things — rampant sexism, outdated gender roles, conflating a hunger for fame with love and romance. But one of the most convincing critiques is that the show is embarrassingly white.

After 12 years of being on the air, “The Bachelor” and its sister show “The Bachelorette” have had only one nonwhite person in their combined title roles – and that after facing a class action lawsuit for racial discrimination. The next bachelor or bachelorette is chosen from among the show’s finalists, so the real problem may be that only a handful of minorities compete as contestants, and that those who do compete are eliminated early. In the current season of The Bachelor, only one of the 30 female contestants is a minority, and she is already off the show. […]

In a 2011 interview with Entertainment Weekly, the show’s creator claimed that he would like to cast more people of color on the show, but “for whatever reason, they don’t come forward.” Other people in the industry dismissed the statement, however. Shawn Ryan, a producer who created “The Shield,” called the show’s practices “straight up racism.” “They just don’t think America will watch black bachelor or root for mixed-race marriage,” Ryan tweeted.