This season of “The Bachelorette” features its first Black star. (ABC)
When a national magazine posted a headline claiming Black women don’t date non-Black men, Twitter users quickly went after it, leading to the article’s removal.
Newsweek ran a story on the new season of ABC’s “The Bachelorette,” which premiered Monday, May 22, and the headline read, “Unlike New ‘Bachelorette’ Rachel Lindsay, Single Black Women Rarely Date Outside Their Race.”
For the first time, a Black woman is at the center of the matchmaking series. Lindsay will choose from 31 potential suitors over the course of the season, with 11 of those men being Black and the rest being mostly white.
The Newsweek piece declared Lindsay made history by smooching one of those suitors, Colombian Bryan Abasolo, and outlined statistics about how few Black women married people outside of their race compared to Black men.
@Newsweek Next they try and claim how historic Rachel’s kiss is, but she’s the first black #bachelorette, so everything she does is a first. 4/ pic.twitter.com/5SdWAYTehv
— Andréa Brittane (@ahn_dray_uh) May 24, 2017
@Newsweek And ends it with this little gem. #bachelorette 6/ pic.twitter.com/oxJsSIrHbf
— Andréa Brittane (@ahn_dray_uh) May 24, 2017
The publication deleted the article a day after it was published …
Newsweek has removed a story posted on May 23 about the Bachelorette. We apologize for any offense it caused.
— Newsweek (@Newsweek) May 24, 2017
… but Twitter users had already made their issues with it known and continued to do so.
Dear @Newsweek, 2011 called and it wants its headline back. We ain't using Black women's dating habits for pageviews in 2017, fam. pic.twitter.com/bcJdHOLaP6
— Britni Danielle (@BritniDWrites) May 24, 2017
"To further complicate matters, marriage isn't always an option for black women looking for a black partner." Um, WHAT? 🤔 #TheBachelorette https://t.co/MAaO4qa6e2
— IG: @Vanessa__Herring (@VanessaHerring) May 24, 2017
WTF?!?! Yes, @Newsweek, black women do like white men. And now they can marry white men without being jailed thanks to Loving v Virginia. https://t.co/TLNRBudIeq
— Bobby Rivers (@BobbyRiversTV) May 24, 2017
https://twitter.com/zaynlove2016/status/867192497814089728
Oh Please!! @Newsweek how stupid are you and it’s totally not cool and racist!! Get it together!! Go look @ history & tell me #bachelorette https://t.co/o6Raxltq8t
— Denise Renee (@deniserenee24) May 24, 2017
@Newsweek You should have left it up. Stand by your antics. Explain what possessed you. #Accountability #TheInternetIsForever #Newsweek #Bachelorette
— Persa Verance (@PurlMaster55) May 24, 2017
@Newsweek your article was trash and you’re trash⚡️ “Newsweek may want to reconsider this Bachelorette/race angle”https://t.co/aDrbbpE0Er
— african cardi b?? (@itsmetheHBIC) May 24, 2017
