White guilt is a weird thing. In an effort to stave off a retroactive cancelation the creator of the show Friends is cutting a big fat check as an apology for not having any black characters in the cast. Making it weirder, this $4 million apology is in the form of a donation to an elite and mostly-white university.
Here’s the non-problem as liberals see it and as reported by The NY Post:
The popular show, which ran from 1994 to 2004, features a group of six white, heterosexual best friends living in Greenwich Village — a famously gay neighborhood — in New York City — a historically diverse city.
And here’s something way funnier than ever happened on Friends:
“Friends” has long been criticized for its lack of diversity, but co-creator Marta Kauffman is finally ready to admit her failure — with a $4 million apology.
Kauffman, 65, initially struggled to grasp the “difficult and frustrating” criticisms of her television series, choosing to believe the successful show was being singled out, she told the Los Angeles Times.
But nearly two decades after the show wrapped, Kauffman has begun to see the error of her ways.
“I’ve learned a lot in the last 20 years. Admitting and accepting guilt is not easy. It’s painful looking at yourself in the mirror. I’m embarrassed that I didn’t know better 25 years ago,” Kauffman said.
But wait, it gets funnier:
Along with millions of other Americans, the 2020 murder of George Floyd pushed Kauffman to reckon with the country’s racist past and her own part in perpetuating systems of racism.
“I knew then I needed to course-correct,” said Kauffman.
So because a black criminal died of a drug overdose in 2020, Kauffman finally realized that her fictitious show from 25 years ago was racist? Wow.
Now you may be thinking that Kauffman is going to pay reparations or donate to Black Lives Matter or some other racial grievance group but in reality:
In an attempt to redeem herself, Kauffman pledged $4 million to her alma mater, Brandeis University, to fund an endowed chair in the school’s African and African American studies department, one of the oldest in the country.
Wow again. Brandeis University is a seriously white elite school and she’s endowing a chair on a stuffy board. She’s not even establishing a a scholarship for black students, she’s paying for someone, who doesn’t necessarily have to be black, to sit on a board doing diddling his or her thumbs. I would say this is the same thing as nothing, but it’s actually less than nothing.
To put this idiocy into perceptive, take a look at the show Good Times that had only black actors in the main cast despite taking place in Chicago, a diverse city where millions of white people live. The reason for this is because the show was a about a black family who lived in the projects and not about white drunken Bears fans. That wasn’t racist, it was Dy-No-Mite!
Yes, NYC is diverse, but part of that diversity is that there’s a bunch of white folks too. Friends was a show about 6 white people who live in Manhattan and that’s okay. White people definitely live there. If the show was about Syrian refugees in the Bronx, then yes, it would be weird to have only white actors in the main cast, but that wasn’t what the show was about.
Not everything is racism but apparently everything is stupid.
