By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

The Bachelor and Bachelorette shows have been slapped with a class-action lawsuit from two aspiring contestants accusing producers of being racially discriminative, and Breaking Celebrity News can exclusively reveal that a former star of the show believes it is time for a black person to be handing out roses.

“It is clearly not right that after 10 years of successive seasons there hasn’t been a black Bachelor or Bachelorette, especially when we have a black president,” Matt Grant, star of season 12 The Bachelor: London Calling told Breaking Celebrity News in an exclusive interview.

“While I don’t think any of the producers are inherently racist,” he was careful to point out, “I just think that mistakes are being made.”

The lawsuit in question was filed by a group of Nashville residents led by Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson against the ABC series claiming it has violated civil rights laws.

Johnson says he filled out an application to be on the show and showed up at a casting call, where he was allegedly stopped immediately by an employee of the show and asked why he was there. The employee took his application material