{"id":706544,"date":"2021-09-01T13:35:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T17:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=706544"},"modified":"2021-09-01T13:35:58","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T17:35:58","slug":"rachael-kirkconnell-insists-her-bachelor-cancellation-was-warranted-says-she-no-longer-speaks-to-certain-family-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rachael-kirkconnell-insists-her-bachelor-cancellation-was-warranted-says-she-no-longer-speaks-to-certain-family-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachael Kirkconnell Insists Her Bachelor Cancellation Was Warranted, Says She No Longer Speaks To \u2018Certain Family Members\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frachael-kirkconnell-insists-her-bachelor-cancellation-was-warranted-says-she-no-longer-speaks-to-certain-family-members%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=706544&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1328055879-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rachael Kirkconnell, the Bachelor contestant who launched a woke controversy that eventually resulted in the ousting of long-time host Chris Harrison, has given her first post-show interview about the photo that started it all.<\/p>\n<p>During her time on the series, critics slammed Kirkconnell for an Instagram post that showed her at an antebellum-themed fraternity party three years before, claiming it was proof of racism. When Harrison tried to defend Kirkconnell, saying standards were different in 2018 and asking viewers to give her grace, he, too, came under fire.<\/p>\n<p>Former-Bachelorette-turned-entertainment correspondent Rachel Lindsey then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/reality-tv-can-serve-a-purpose-but-last-week-it-failed\">accused<\/a> Harrison of racial insensitivity and, despite his several apologies, said ABC made the right decision in replacing him as host.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in her first interview since the show ended and Harrison exited, Kirkconnell says she agrees that her decision to take a photo dressed as a Southern belle was racist and she\u2019s \u201cashamed\u201d to have participated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the full antebellum-themed plantation party, everyone dressed as Confederate soldiers, the parades and when [my friend] was telling me, \u2018Oh, this is how it is at some schools,\u2019 I\u2019m like so ashamed that I basically participated in that unknowingly because I\u2019m sitting here in my own little privileged, selfish world just thinking, \u2018Oh, we just put dresses on to go take a photo op,\u2019\u201d she told hosts Michelle Saahene and Melissa DePino on an Instagram Live for their channel \u201cFrom Privilege to Progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, Kirkconnell claimed that she didn\u2019t actually attend the \u201cOld South\u201d party, but simply took a photo for it, saying, \u201cIt was nothing more than an Instagram opportunity and how terrible is that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Using terminology popularized by the left-wing professor Ibram X. Kendi, Kirkconnell also said that the criticism has taught her the difference between being \u201cnot racist\u201d and being \u201canti-racist.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"28\">\n<p><em>I guess that\u2019s the first time my eyes opened about \u2018OK, there\u2019s a difference between being not racist and anti-racist, because back then if you would have asked me, \u2018Are you a racist person,\u2019 I would be like, \u2018Of course, I\u2019m not,\u201d she said. \u201cI would never, ever, ever judge someone by their skin color or be prejudiced towards them or racist towards them like that.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You can obviously be overtly, openly racist, but you can also be or have implicit bias and these racial tendencies within you that you don\u2019t even know about, or you can be racially ignorant, and that\u2019s probably the first time I had realized that and I think the peak for me was last summer during the movements after George Floyd \u2013 that\u2019s when I realized, \u2018OK, I need to do more than just not be racist.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time of the controversy, critics also slammed Kirkconnell\u2019s parents for wearing MAGA hats. So it was significant that she finished the interview by revealing that she no longer speaks to \u201ccertain family members anymore because that was probably the first time in my life I realized I need to stop standing aside and I need to speak up and do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kirkconnell did not identify who the family members are or offer any further context for why she has chosen to disassociate from them.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachael Kirkconnell, the Bachelor contestant who launched a woke controversy that eventually resulted in the ousting of long-time host Chris Harrison, has given her first post-show interview about the photo &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}