Rachel Lindsay Details Moment She ‘Felt Exploited’ on Bachelorette, Calls Out ‘Toxic Fandom’

They have constantly given it a product it wants: a midwestern/southern white, blonde, light-eyed Christian.

Lindsay explained of the latter term, “Bachelor Klan is hateful, racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and homophobic.

“I started wondering if I was looking at it the wrong way,” Lindsay continued.

“There were moments like that when they protected me,” she said of the producers.

“I sat in the ceremony that day as Nick gave out roses, my head resting on Astrid’s shoulder,” Lindsay recalled.

“They separated us – Peter got to talk to his homeboys, and I was with the women, who talked about having ‘mixed babies’ and what it was like to be an interracial couple.

“If anything, that situation turned me off of Peter because I couldn’t see myself hanging out with them,” she added.

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