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Talk about the pot calling the kettle black for dating White.

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Before he found himself thrust into the spotlight after being accused of sexual misconduct following a sexual encounter with (White) Bachelor in Paradise co-star Corinne Olympios (allegations he was cleared of by production), DeMario Jackson was vying for the attention of Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay. The 30-year-old was sent home after two weeks on the show after a woman named Lexi claiming to be his girlfriend (he said he’d only seen her “two times during the daytime“), threw a wrench in his plans. Lindsay would eventually pick Bryan Abasolo as her final choice.

Speaking on his rollercoaster journey through The Bachelor/Bachelorette universe with The E&G Podcast, Jackson tried to say that he knew he wasn’t going to be picked by Lindsay in the end. In his opinion, it was obvious from the jump that she was set to pick a White man.

“You knew that. No disrespect, you just knew,” he said, according to PEOPLE. “She had that vibe. From night one, we all sat down, all the guys and I said, ‘They’re going to have a black representative, either myself or Eric [Bigger], and they’re going to have Dean [Unglert], Peter [Kraus], and Bryan [Abasolo] as the final four.’ We all caught that. I mean, it was obvious.”

He went on to take shots at Lindsay, particularly criticizing the way she would interact with the Black men on the show.

“What is portrayed out here is this sweet, nice, caring, compassionate girl, but it was like, the total opposite,” he said. “There were times in the episodes where you could just tell that she just wasn’t interested in any of the Black guys. I remember one specific episode where she had her one-on-one with Kenny [Layne], and Kenny was telling her about his daughter and she’s just sitting there with this unbothered look. And then you see her talk to Dean and she’s just like, head over heels. You can kind of tell.”

In the end, he tried to say that his comments about Lindsay weren’t a knock at her fiancée Abasolo, but it didn’t stop him from making a less than positive comment about his hopes for their future as a couple.

“I’m not disrespecting Bryan at all,” Jackson said. “Great guy … he was focused, locked in on Rachel the whole entire time. Much love to him, much love to her, and I hope they have beautiful mixed little babies.”

Of course, such comments didn’t sit well with Lindsay once she caught wind of them. The 32-year-old would post a comment under an Instagram post promoting Jackson’s appearance on the podcast.

“Says the guy that dated Lexi,” she wrote, in reference to the White woman claiming she was Jackson’s girlfriend during his short time on The Bachelorette — his second since being in the spotlight. “Demario never knew me and still doesn’t.”

Questions about whether or not she would even consider a Black man and the pressure to was something Lindsay dealt with from the minute she was picked for the show. She made it clear early on that she was going to go with her heart despite what anybody else thought about her decisions down the line.

“It’s my journey in finding love,” she said earlier this year. “And whether that person is black, white, red, whatever — it’s my journey. I’m not choosing a man for America, I’m choosing a man for me.”

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