'It took a pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement to take a moment and reassess the issue at hand, which I’ve called on for years.'
"Women with afros, braids, locs, etc.; weren’t even given a chance because of the white standards of beauty," wrote Jazzy Collins, a former casting producer for ABC's long-running reality franchise, in an open letter posted to her Instagram on Sunday.
The letter comes amid a racial reckoning for reality TV. Bravo has fired Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute fromafter revelations that they reported former Black cast member Faith Stowers to the police for a crime she didn't commit. MTV dumped cast members fromafter they made racist comments. Lifetime is extracting already admitted felon Abby Lee Miller from its
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