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Wow. For years I complained that American Idol is getting too white, and now this is shaping up to be the whitest season of all time. I only see one obvious woman of color in the semifinals (Jessica Sanchez), so unless Skylar Laine is also a woman of color (I assume that Chelsea Sorrell is white), Jessica will be the only one. And not a black woman in sight. This has to be a first in Idol history.
SEASON 01 - Tamyra Gray (4th) and Christina Christian (6th) SEASON 02 - Kimberley Locke (3rd) and Trenyce Cobbins (5th) SEASON 03 - Fantasia Barrino (1st), LaToya London (4th), and Jennifer Hudson (7th) (I heard that Diana DeGarmo was part black, but I'm not sure) SEASON 04 - Vonzell Solomon (3rd) and Nadia Turner (8th) SEASON 05 - Paris Bennett (5th), Mandisa Hundley (9th), and Lisa Tucker (10th) SEASON 06 - Jordin Sparks (1st), Melinda Doolittle (3rd), LaKisha Jones (4th), and Stephanie Edwards (11th) SEASON 07 - Syesha Mercado (3rd) SEASON 08 - Lil Rounds (7th) and Jasmine Murray (13th) SEASON 09 - Paige Miles (11th or something like that; I didn't pay much attention to that season) SEASON 10 - Naima Adedapo (joint-11th?) and Ashthon Jones (13th) SEASON 11 - not even one black woman in the American Idol semifinals
Either the women of color collectively sucked as a whole, or they were actually superior to these white girls but the producers found the white girls more marketable, or summat in between.
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