Can CBS cast a Texan that doesn't make racist or homophobic statements?
The latest: A new contestant on 'Big Brother,' Corey Brooks, a former Texas A&M baseball player, is being criticized for making homophobic statements on Twitter.
The statements, first identified by Hamsterwatch, were from 2011 and 2012.
-- He said of the movie "The Notebook," tweeting, "I don't care if you think I'm a faggot."
-- He consistently used the word gay in contempt or disapproval, referring to another person's "gay write up about yourself" and saying someone else was "supa gay."
-- In one Tweet, he wrote a reply to another person, "You would know about taking it the hard way. Fag." In another, he replied to a tweet, "def[initely] a fag."
Almost all of the Tweets appear to have been deleted. Here is a screenshot:
As noted by Reality Blurred, a Website that covers reality TV, "The language is four years old, and the casual use of such language may or may not predict his current attitudes or his behavior in the house."
In the past few years, "Big Brother" has cast Dallas resident Caleb Reynolds, who posted homophobic and racist comments, and Aaryn Gries, who made racial epithets and said, "In Texas, sometimes we joke and we don't mean it."
But Reynolds redeemed himself on the most recent season of "Survivor," forming a strong relationship with a gay contestant.
Maybe the tip for these contestants is to delete their social media history.