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and present a season free of racially insensitive or ageist comments.

Remember during the finale for Nick Viall’s season of

when Lindsay got to meet a few of her future suitors and one of them – Dean, who is white – introduced himself by saying: “I’m ready to go black, and I’m never gonna go back”? Yikes. Lindsay reacted gracefully on live television, but some on Twitter viewed the comment as fetishising the first African-American Bachelorette.

And that was before the season even started! As others have pointed out, Chris Harrison’s Facebook Live introduction of the contestants this season wasn’t without innuendo.

He introduced DeMario by saying the 30-year-old African-American contestant might be “too smooth.”

On Ravishly last week, Jagger Blaec wrote that she “will be watching and hoping that this season of isn’t going to be the micro aggressive, messy train wreck we all know it has the potential to be.”

The season has the potential to cast Lindsay – whom Harrison described last week as “a little bit older... and obviously very accomplished” I DO: Rachel Lindsay will star in – as an old maid, and her contestants as similarly over the hill. For example, in Harrison’s intr last a 3