{"id":45040,"date":"2016-01-10T22:28:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T22:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45040"},"modified":"2016-01-10T22:28:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T22:28:54","slug":"why-im-over-the-white-washing-of-the-bachelor-every-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45040","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019m Over The White-Washing Of \u2018The Bachelor\u2019 Every Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\/entertainment\/bachelor-white-wash\/1330257\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why I\u2019m Over The White-Washing Of \u2018The Bachelor\u2019 Every Season<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\" target=\"_blank\">Elite Daily<\/a><br \/>\n2016-01-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kimishotthemoon\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>KiMi Robinson<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Los Angeles, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I just cyber-stalked my ex and his new flings \u2014 except I never dated the guy, nor will I ever have that opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, I went through <a href=\"http:\/\/abc.go.com\/shows\/the-bachelor\/cast\" target=\"_blank\">all 28 contestant\u2019s profiles<\/a> from the upcoming season of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Bachelor_(U.S._TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">The Bachelor<\/a>\u201d to judge who I think will be the best fit for our <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Colorado\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado<\/a> sweetheart, Ben Higgins.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how much I pride myself on being an independent, educated woman, I\u2019m also a slave to this cruel franchise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Don\u2019t get me wrong; I\u2019m just as obsessed with the latter two couples as the next person, but I\u2019m starting to get tired of the predictability of it all.<\/p>\n<p>As a mixed-race child of Japanese and Caucasian parents, I\u2019m eager to see things spiced up in the \u201cBachelor\u201d franchise. In other words, when am I going to get to see an interracial couple?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/elitedaily.com\/entertainment\/bachelor-white-wash\/1330257\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I\u2019m Over The White-Washing Of \u2018The Bachelor\u2019 Every Season Elite Daily 2016-01-05 KiMi Robinson Los Angeles, California I just cyber-stalked my ex and his new flings \u2014 except I never dated the guy, nor will I ever have that opportunity. In other words, I went through all 28 contestant\u2019s profiles from the upcoming season [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8413,8,20],"tags":[22578,22577,22579],"class_list":["post-45040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-elite-daily","tag-kimi-robinson","tag-the-bachelor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45041,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45040\/revisions\/45041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}