we butt heads, we're athletic, but maybe not smart and strategic," she adds.
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In watching the series since then - there have been 40 seasons over the past 20 years - Amaro believes she saw other Black contestants stereotyped in similar ways. "That really upset me and it took me a long time to get over it.
"I became the lazy person, which is the furthest thing from the truth," says Amaro. I'm just saying, 'Do right by us.'Įven though the program eventually showed her regaining her strength and working harder, she was voted off the island after 12 days. we butt heads, we're athletic, but maybe not smart and strategic.
She says footage showing her lying around her team's campsite early in the competition made her look lazy, feeding into stereotypes about Black people. She is the first Black woman to compete on CBS's unscripted hit series Survivor, which took 16 people and isolated them on an island in Malaysia, vying for a million-dollar prize, on the show's first season in 2000, Survivor: Borneo.īut when she saw how she was depicted in the show, which takes footage filmed on the island and edits it into episodes aired months later on network TV, Amaro also felt she was also one of the first Black people stereotyped by Survivor. Ramona Gray Amaro has a spot in reality TV history. Above, contestants on the latest season, Survivor: Winners at War.
They say Survivor's production is hampered by systemic racism that makes it tougher for Black participants to succeed. Black alums of the unscripted CBS hit say the show routinely stereotypes Black contestants.
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