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... the other Black experience

According to a kicked-off contestant of the show who says she is of Caribbean descent, Chad Ocho Cinco is only requesting that light-skinned girls be included in his line-up.

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Here’s the email she sent after being sent home early:

I was recently selected as one of the final 85 for Chad’s (OchoCinco) dating reality show. Long story short, Chad has identity issues and primarily chose Latinas and white girls (mostly brunette’s). Many of the black girls were eliminated right off the back (including Rabbit from “Real Chance of Love”)<– might I add Cali made a cameo, as well. I managed to make “Top 30″ before getting eliminated.

The entire day was unorganized and Chad only wanted to do things his way; he wouldn’t listen to producers and all selections were made by him only. In the beginning, Chad walked the field and immediately began to dismiss girls.

He later called a group of ten girls (including myself) up to the front and told us to “Not worry. You’re not going anywhere.”

Shortly after, he directed us to do a quick warm-up lap (at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA). This warm-up lap turned into chaos; lap after lap producers were unsure of what to do next, so they directed girls to keep running. Luckily, I stay with a personal trainer, so I ran a total of 6 laps before I stopped for water. Some girls began to hyperventilate, while others began to walk.

One by one, Chad starting pulling black girls aside and telling them “bye.” During my stop for a cup of water, Chad called me over along with a group of six girls – 5 black and 1 white. He then said “Umm…you guys are eliminated…yeah…eliminated. Except for you.” And guess who he pulled out the group? The white girl.

Hm, this sounds a little reminiscent of this: Diddy: Dark Skinned Girls Need Not Apply

Another letter also came in, spilling all the behind-the-scenes dirty deets. But this time, it was from a member of the production staff.

When you watch the show it’s going to appear as if he had to narrow down 84 girls to 17. In reality. 17 girls were pre-selected by the producers and flown to LA a week prior to do interviews and photo shoots for the show. The other 67 girls on set were “extras” filling in.

When Chad arrived on set, he saw a mixed variety of nationalities that the producers had already pre-selected – five black girls, 5 Spanish girls, 6 white girls, and a girl of Middle Eastern decent. He seemed rather upset and acted irritated. The producer felt that he was unhappy and after talking to them off-air, Chad wanted to revise the list of the pre-selected girls. He wanted to send home all of the Black girls and replace them with some of the Caucasian and Hispanic “extras” that were already on set.

After not having picked any Black girls to remain on the show the producers pressured him into picking at least two. Chad, in turn, chooses the two most GHETTO girls there to represent the us. And by ghetto…you know the ones that cause black men to say that’s the reason they don’t date black women anymore.

It’s really sad to see a man who has an entirely black family, including beautiful black children, have such low regard for black women. I’ve heard stories about his preference in the past but never in a million years would I think he would make it that obvious, especially knowing that his TV show is not exactly catering to the white folks.

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who watches this garbage tho?
i'm finding it hard to give a shit. :P not all dudes are like this, too bad for those who are like this, but i won't lose any sleep over this man. :)
he hates himself...if he cant see the beauty in his OWN skin color smh
I used to look @ him and think 'damn thats a beautiful brotha.'
What's wrong with him showing his preference? He's doing women who don't like men like that a favor if they think his idea of beauty is not correct. Besides it's his preference. I don't remember seeing any fat men in the handsome black men thread. Maybe there were but judging by all the six pack cats I could make the same argument about body type as skin color.
lol, yeah looking unhealthy and/or slovenly is really the same thing as being a fit, pretty, and black female for ochocinco. ...just preferences. *yawn*
His preference happens to not be his reflection?
You still can just insert "retarded". Think, "Damn, that's a beautiful [retarded] brother." Then you're being real and just think of him as useful for exploitation and nothing else. People like him who have "preferences" can be bought and sold. They're heartless bastards who've killed the God of Possibility anyway by holding unrealistic, unadaptive preferences... but maybe he only likes FOB darkies or ultra rich ones and none of them fit either category.

lyfenlyn said:
I used to look @ him and think 'damn thats a beautiful brotha.'
Fat does not equal slovenly or unhealthy any more than slender equals tidy necessarily pretty or healthy. That is a very bigoted view of body type. There are plenty of women and men on this site that are fat i.e. overweight none of them appear to be unkempt in the pictures I've seen. I haven't seen the woman who complained but maybe she is unattractive to him.

Likewise according to the post he likes black females just not dark ones. That's no different than liking slim people, or androgynous people, or blonde people, or black people. Like she said:

Fashionfreak said:
if you aren't someone's 'type' there's nothing you can do about it so move the f on, and find someone else whose 'type' is you.

This wouldn't be controversial here if he had said "I only want black women" then proceeded to eliminate all the white women and east asians.

LesYpersound said:
lol, yeah looking unhealthy and/or slovenly is really the same thing as being a fit, pretty, and black female for ochocinco. ...just preferences. *yawn*
my main problem it that this is put on tv for everyone to see another rich athlete picking his kim k
I read this on theybf, I think. And you know what? Really didn't surprise me. I always kind of got those vibes from him, and it seems like a lot of men (and or just black male athletes who are darker) seem to have these kind of issues. I have no problem with preference at all considering I have them myself but whats sad is that hes turning down potential women who could probably be perfect for him based on looks. And hes claiming to be looking for love? Love is obviously not very color blind for him, and he must not want it that badly (I know the show is for money but still :P)
kifaru, ever think that it's an issue because underlying self-hate or hatred for women who look like their own mother is a sad thing...?
LesYpersound said:
kifaru, ever think that it's an issue because underlying self-hate or hatred for women who look like their own mother is a sad thing...?

kifaru said:
He's doing women who don't like men like that a favor if they think his idea of beauty is not correct.

I haven't seen his mother and I'll take a guess that you haven't either so at this point we don't know if she dark or not which means it's premature to chalk his preference up to self hate. He does not prefer (at least according to the eliminated contestant) dark skinned women which still leaves plenty of black although light skinned women for him to prefer. Sometimes preference is what it is: preference. There's no need to assign it to an underlying personality disorder.

What I am concerned with is your comment that equates fat with slovenly and unhealthy.


LesYpersound said:
lol, yeah looking unhealthy and/or slovenly is really the same thing as being a fit, pretty, and black female for ochocinco. ...just preferences. *yawn*

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