Evidently, the casting directors over at The Amazing Race heard my complaints about the lily-whiteness of the casts for the past couple of seasons, ones that often featured two to four people of color out of about twenty-two total racers. IGN has pictures and stats on the new TAR10 teams who look comparatively pretty diverse.
It seems that we have at least four teams that are ethnically non-white, plus a disabled racer, a pair of gays, and a freaking lesbian. Yeah that's right. A lesbian. Fortunately for the other racers, there's just one and she's on a team with her dad. She looks pretty femme, too, not that there's anything wrong with that of course. They clearly know that a team of two lesbians would finish the whole race in about a week, tops. Let's hope her and the gays represent. We got slammed last season in the first leg. And who was before that? Lynn and Alex? Bleeck. It seems like so long since we've had good gays. It makes one long for the halcyon days of Oswald, Danny, Ken, Andrew, and hell, even the Guidos. (But never Aaron and Arianne. NEVER.)
Save for the male models and the pageant winners, it looks like we have a suspiciously normal looking group of racers. My hopes are high. Don't disappoint me, Bruckheimer.
The Amazing Race 10 is sans airdate at the moment, but it will be on a new night and time: Sundays at 8 PM starting in the fall.
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