"I'm going to be really frank - we let Matt down," Graebner said, referring to The Bachelor's first ever Black lead, Matt James. "That season went wrong on so many levels. We did not protect him as we should have."
"The finale of that season was the darkest day I've had on this franchise," Graebner continued. "Here was this great Black man, and we should have been celebrating his love story. Instead, what we saw was a man burdened and overwhelmed by issues of racism. It was really sad for me personally."
"We didn't have a Black lead in this franchise for 15 years and that's inexcusable," he said. "It created a vicious cycle, and it's taken a lot of work to get back to a place where we feel at least we're working for the positive."
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