Why ‘Bachelor’ Matt James is under ‘pressure’ to pick a black woman
Rachel Lindsay is giving Matt James critics a black eye. Blasting “Bachelor” buffs for browbeating this season’s golden boy into giving his final red rose to a black woman, the former Bachelorette said fans can’t comprehend the “pressure” he’s feeling as the first black Bachelor. “[People] don’t understand unless you’re in the seat, the pressure that is on you from America,” Lindsay, 35, vented to Andy Cohen on Radio Andy on Sirius XM Wednesday. “But then also as being black,” Lindsay, the first black Bachelorette, continued.“Black America’s looking at you, and they’re trying to decide, they’re telling you who they think you should pick, or you know, what they want to see from you.