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"Bachelor" to be hit with race discrimination lawsuit
Reuters ^ | April 18, 2012

Posted on 04/18/2012 9:23:44 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia

(Reuters) - A pair of African American men expect to file a lawsuit against ABC television and the producer of reality dating shows "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette" charging racial discrimination, attorneys said on Tuesday.

The class action, to be filed in federal court on Wednesday, is being brought by two residents of Nashville, Tennessee who claim the popular shows intentionally exclude people of color.

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To: mrsmel

Good post!


21 posted on 04/18/2012 9:52:33 AM PDT by entropy12 (Winning is the only thing...coach Vince Lombardi. Losers in elections have zero power.)
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To: YoungBlackRepublican

“Incensed” is strong for a generalization; I should have put in a qualifier, “victim-culture blacks” or “Van Jones and Al Sharpton gangs” or something like that.

That said, when we see the VERY white Occupy gangs (and I do mean gangs) openly announcing that they too want riots in the streets, I really have to think that the 95% of blacks who voted for him last time are more than just unhappy.


22 posted on 04/18/2012 9:53:44 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: mrsmel

“racist” (anti-white) should have been “racist (NOT anti-white). Racist is contemporary usage is code for “anti-white”.


23 posted on 04/18/2012 9:57:49 AM PDT by mrsmel
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To: mrsmel

“racist” (anti-white) should have been “racist (NOT anti-white). Racist is contemporary usage is code for “NOT anti-white”.


24 posted on 04/18/2012 9:58:10 AM PDT by mrsmel
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To: SnakeDoctor

Well played movie still and quote!


25 posted on 04/18/2012 10:03:02 AM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: SnakeDoctor

Gee, I’m just mortified. I meant Lil Jon.


26 posted on 04/18/2012 10:04:05 AM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

So I wonder if Shaft here did get on the show, would all his bachelorettes be black?

And if they were, would that be rasis’?

And if they had a token black bachelorette when a white guy is the batch, and if he gave “oprah” the heave-ho after the first round, would that be rasis’? And could she sue him?

And what if Shaft, here, got on the show... and no one but black people tuned in to watch it? Would that be rasis’? And could all the black viewers sue the white viewers for not tuning in?


27 posted on 04/18/2012 10:11:05 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Trust in God, but row away from the rocks!)
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To: ScottinVA
It's been pretty obvious for a long time that the show discriminates against Natural Red Heads ~ never been one at all ~ never.

There are only 300 million of us to 7 billion of you people. Every 40th gal on that show ought to be carrying some fire eh!

28 posted on 04/18/2012 10:13:47 AM PDT by muawiyah (ue)
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To: entropy12
Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY White country and ONLY into White countries.
The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.
Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY White country and ONLY White countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-Whites.
What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?
How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?
And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?
But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the White race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.
They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-White.
Anti-racist is a code word for anti-White. 
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29 posted on 04/18/2012 10:16:38 AM PDT by mrsmel
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

If you want to see token black people on TV, watch “Wheel of Fortune” where almost always one of the three contestants is black. On the other hand, Jeopardy almost never has black contestants. Alex Trebek must be a racist.


30 posted on 04/18/2012 10:17:21 AM PDT by 109ACS (If this be Treason, then make the most of it. Patrick Henry, May 1765)
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To: Beagle8U

Yes, they do, but they are still a bunch of black racists.


31 posted on 04/18/2012 10:21:29 AM PDT by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I am so sick of the racist grievance industry I could . . . . [fill in the blank]


32 posted on 04/18/2012 10:25:48 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I am so sick of the racist grievance industry I could . . . . [fill in the blank]


33 posted on 04/18/2012 10:25:54 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

who needs a reality show about this when we can all just watch the Kardashians....?


34 posted on 04/18/2012 10:33:12 AM PDT by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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To: blueunicorn6
ABC

Always

Baloney and

Crap

The old network’s finances are down so they run these shows that cost them little to produce. They won’t run any family friendly shows because that would be against their dogma. I love it.

You mean these ABC shows:

Scandal

The View

Cougar Town

GCB

Modern Family

Grey's Anatomy

35 posted on 04/18/2012 10:35:17 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

ABC may as well cancel the program.


36 posted on 04/18/2012 10:35:27 AM PDT by MeganC (No way in Hell am I voting for Mitt Romney. Not now, not ever. Deal with it.)
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To: MeganC
Half of all marriages today end in divorce within 4 years..

98% of all Bacherlor/Bachelorette engagements/marriages end within 3 months of the show's finale..

Well, like..duh!!!

37 posted on 04/18/2012 10:41:34 AM PDT by ken5050 (The ONLY reason to support Mitt: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir will appear at the WH each Christmas)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

A show with conventional views of male/female and marriage is not going to sell in a black viewer audience.

Therefore, ....

End of suit.


38 posted on 04/18/2012 11:07:01 AM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is necessary to examine principles."...the public interest)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Hope they succeed in their suit. I hate reality tv.


39 posted on 04/18/2012 11:13:36 AM PDT by the_daug
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

They sound like a couple of whinyass, and probably broke, bachelors to me. This isn’t lawsuit material. Winning a “lawsuit” sure beats having to work for a living.


40 posted on 04/18/2012 11:14:31 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time for the 47% to start paying their "fair share" of income taxes. Hypocrites!)
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