Race is always an issue, but it certainly doesn't have to be. 2015 was the year that we were all just too damn sensitive. We can't just oppose something, speak our minds, and move on. We feel obligated to fight it, protest it, and then maybe we'll get our way. If we don't, then we try again. This isn't a bad thing. It's 2016, why aren't we all accepting of everybody yet?

I just happen to not be a person who fights things. I accept the things that are the way they are and move on. It's not that I don't care, I just don't know how I, myself, can change the world (I know, I know). I will say that it is a peculiar topic this time. "The Bachelor/The Bachelorette," that is. We know the story: boy (or girl) meets 26 other girls (or boys) and at the end of the season, two fall in love and get engaged (but usually not married) after a conspicuously short amount of time to get to know each other.

Including our current Hoosier, Ben Higgins, as "The Bachelor," there have been about 30 bachelors/bachelorettes. I'm not making race an issue where it doesn't need to be one, but why hasn't even one out of the 30 ever been anything but white? According to the Washington Post, "The Bachelor is embarrassingly white." Apparently there has only been one non-white bachelor, and in that season there was a lawsuit for racial discrimination.

Let's be real: me, you, and possibly millions of other people watch this show without blinking an eye. We don't think about this day to day, or episode to episode, I guess. Yes, there have been countless times when (and in almost every recent season) multiple non-white candidates were in the lot of 26 girls or guys competing for love. They almost never get to the semifinals or finals, and they certainly don't get picked as the "winner." Obviously, this could be the current Bachelor or Bachelorette's preference. But if you read anything about the show, or more recently, Sean Lowe's (season 19 Bachelor) book on "The Bachelor," you know the producers do in fact have major influence.

So, why is this show 'embarrassingly white?' I don't know, and I don't know how to find the answer to this question. In my opinion, I think it may be just a matter of what is popular television. It is a very, very attractive series: beautiful women, sexy men, exotic locations, and dates that are probably very difficult to replicate in real life. How could us "Bachelor(ette)" fans complain?

The show might have a much larger audience -- and there are already over eight million viewers -- if it broadened its horizons.