{"id":292595,"date":"2020-05-19T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1153553"},"modified":"2020-05-19T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:20:00","slug":"bachelorettes-mike-johnson-slams-hannah-browns-unacceptable-behavior-after-she-says-the-n-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/bachelorettes-mike-johnson-slams-hannah-browns-unacceptable-behavior-after-she-says-the-n-word\/","title":{"rendered":"Bachelorette&#8217;s Mike Johnson Slams Hannah Brown&#8217;s &#8220;Unacceptable&#8221; Behavior After She Says the N-Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31.5\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"33\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020419\/rs_1024x759-200519071858-1024-hannah-mike-gj-5-19-20.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Hannah Brown, Mike Johnson\" alt=\"Hannah Brown, Mike Johnson\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Jon Kopaloff\/Getty Images, ABC\/John Fleenor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.176363636364\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"30.098181818182\">\n<p><strong>Mike Johnson<\/strong> has a few words for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/hannah_brown\">Hannah Brown<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The season 15 star spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2020\/05\/19\/bachelorette-star-mike-johnson-conversation-unacceptable-hannah-brown-n-word\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TMZ<\/a> and reacted to the former Bachelorette <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1152905\/hannah-brown-is-facing-backlash-after-posting-a-video-of-herself-saying-the-n-word\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying the N-word<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What Hannah did was unacceptable. Issues like this bring light to the bridge of pop culture and racism within our country,&#8221; he told the celebrity news outlet, later adding, &#8220;I&#8217;m inviting her and everyone to a conversation, in hopes to educate everyone that this type of behavior needs to be changed and is unacceptable. My aim is that in this moment we don&#8217;t divide, we come together, learn from this and create change for the better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some fans criticized Johnson for not speaking out sooner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look at my phone, and I see a few people coming at me because I&#8217;m not defending women of color because of something that Hannah Brown did,&#8221; he said in a video posted to social media this weekend. &#8220;She shouldn&#8217;t have said the N-word. It&#8217;s pretty damn simple to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Johnson said he hadn&#8217;t seen the video of Brown saying the N-word.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People, don&#8217;t come at me like I&#8217;m watching everything that&#8217;s going on between all my cast members on the show,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>Over the weekend, Brown posted a video of herself singing the words to <strong>DaBaby<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Rockstar,&#8221; including the N-word. The reality TV celeb quickly came under fire. While she initially claimed she didn&#8217;t think she said the word, she later issued an apology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I owe you all a major apology,&#8221; Brown wrote in a statement posted to Instagram. &#8220;There is no excuse and I will not justify what I said. I have read your messages and seen the hurt I have caused. I own it all. I am terribly sorry and know that whether in public or private this language is unacceptable. I promise to do better.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"44.984627831715\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"30.648867313916\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/rachel_lindsay\">Rachel Lindsay<\/a><\/strong>, who starred on the 13th season of <em>The Bachelorette<\/em>, claimed she reached out to Brown directly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought, &#8216;You know what? Let me just speak to the person directly and let them know how I&#8217;m feeling,'&#8221; she said in a video. &#8220;You know, it&#8217;s not an opportunity to call someone out; it&#8217;s not necessarily an opportunity to drag someone. It&#8217;s an opportunity to maybe educate them, to speak to them about how you were personally upset about it. So that&#8217;s exactly what I did\u2014never with the intention to come do an Instagram Live, never with the intention to call someone out. I thought, &#8216;Let me challenge this person to use their platform because last night it was used in a different way. So, let me challenge them to use it in a better way. Maybe it was a mistake, maybe they didn&#8217;t realize the intention behind it. So, let me give them the opportunity to now use their platform to correct that mistake.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lindsay said she was &#8220;personally hurt and offended&#8221; that she &#8220;gave&nbsp;somebody the opportunity to do that and it wasn&#8217;t done.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, I understand that an apology was made,&#8221; she added, &#8220;but when I know what could have been done, when I know what I challenged someone to do, they refused to do it, or they did not do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1153553\/bachelorette-s-mike-johnson-slams-hannah-brown-s-unacceptable-behavior-after-she-says-the-n-word?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Kopaloff\/Getty Images, ABC\/John Fleenor Mike Johnson has a few words for Hannah Brown. The season 15 star spoke to TMZ and reacted to the former Bachelorette saying the N-word. &#8220;What Hannah did was unacceptable. Issues like this bring light to the bridge of pop culture and racism within our country,&#8221; he told the celebrity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-19 15:47:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}