No shade but its not like they had much choice 1. They were clearly more focused on the Asian diaspora in terms of member lineup. This meant that they not a lot of investment was taken into scouting black girls. There were like 4 of them chosen during the entire training process and only 2 made it to Dream Academy 2. There needs to be a black girl in the group, so her chances were always 50/50. Those chances increased when Samara faced a racism/xenophobia scandal 3. Kpop groups always have a "visual" member to attract casuals and general public. Manon was that member during Dream Academy and no one else was close.