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‘Friends’ Creator Atones for Sitcom’s Lack of Diversity by Pledging $4 Million to African-American Studies Department
Breitbart ^ | 06.30.2022 | David Ng

Posted on 06/30/2022 6:27:23 AM PDT by Macky Cracklins

If you’re a Hollywood elite facing the wrath of the diversity mob, a cool $4 million judiciously dispersed can buy you a lot of redemption.

Friends creator Marta Kauffman has atoned for the sitcom’s lack of diversity by pledging $4 million to her alma mater, Brandeis University, to establish an endowed professorship in the school’s African and African American studies department.

The result: glowing mainstream media coverage and social media feedback.

In a mea culpa with the Los Angeles Times, Marta Kauffman prostrated herself before the diversity police, saying she is “embarrassed” by the lack of minority characters in Friends.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; blacksupremacy; cancelculture; friends; hollywood; obamasfault; woke
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I guess the creators of What’s Happening Now and The Cosby Show will donate money? Give me a break. This is completely laughable. These shows are all 20+ years old. If you don’t like the show or the cast, turn the freakin channel.
1 posted on 06/30/2022 6:27:23 AM PDT by Macky Cracklins
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Are some people really shocked to discover others do not hang out with people of different races? Do they deliberately seek out a “black friend” in order to gain woke cred? I could not care less that everyone in my life is lily white. Don’t feel like I’m missing a thing.


2 posted on 06/30/2022 6:30:54 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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For some reason its morally wrong to have a show with white people only in it.

What an effed up world we live in today.


3 posted on 06/30/2022 6:31:12 AM PDT by skeeter
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‘Friends’ Creator Atones for Sitcom’s Lack of Diversity by Pledging $4 Million to African-American Studies Department

What type of employment is available for those majoring in African American Studies?

4 posted on 06/30/2022 6:31:40 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Ultra MAGA!)
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To: Macky Cracklins

Friends without the laugh track- The worst show in television history.


5 posted on 06/30/2022 6:32:11 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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Too bad Kauffman could never debase herself to the extent she debased American culture with her tripe. She harmed the American nation with her propaganda.


6 posted on 06/30/2022 6:32:35 AM PDT by allendale
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One has to wonder… if she diversified the cast back then would she have the 4 million to donate?


7 posted on 06/30/2022 6:33:21 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: The Sons of Liberty

I think that’s where they stick black college athletes until they jump to the pros.


8 posted on 06/30/2022 6:34:51 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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You know I never watched Friends , just saw the TV ads


9 posted on 06/30/2022 6:35:06 AM PDT by butlerweave
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What an evil and despicable person. No ‘diversity’? How dare you! You should be shot.


10 posted on 06/30/2022 6:35:16 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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I understand that some gays also hate Friends because jokes were made about homosexuality.
11 posted on 06/30/2022 6:36:03 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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Apparently being jewish (David Schwimmer) isn’t diverse enough.


12 posted on 06/30/2022 6:36:57 AM PDT by NicoDon
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I wonder how they manage these shakedowns?


13 posted on 06/30/2022 6:37:23 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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Ya, that would be a great show. Phoebes in an ally shooting up while Joey pimps out the other two girls. Chandler is in prison for sharing more than the Weekly WENIS with some kids. Ross is down at the university running a class on diversity and grifting the BLM students.


14 posted on 06/30/2022 6:37:37 AM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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Good. Now apologize because it wasn’t funny.


15 posted on 06/30/2022 6:39:30 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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Irony abounds here - a Jew giving money to predominantly/historically Jewish university so they can offer a degree program that will attract some token descendants of former slaves so everybody can feel better about themselves. I wonder if I had that kind of money if I could convince a HBCU to establish a program for Western Civilization so they could increase the diversity of their student body. Somehow, I just don’t see that happening...


16 posted on 06/30/2022 6:40:15 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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17 posted on 06/30/2022 6:44:07 AM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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The creator of ‘Friends’ has quite a way to go. So keep yer checkbook out, pal. Because:

None of the six cast members were elderly.
None of them were handicapped.
None of them were Sikhs.

And I’m just getting started here.


18 posted on 06/30/2022 6:44:34 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

“What type of employment is available for those majoring in African American Studies?”

Teaching African American Studies!


19 posted on 06/30/2022 6:45:14 AM PDT by ProudVet97
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To: Macky Cracklins

Friends always had blacks as “authority” figures - lawyers, doctors, police, astrophysicists.

If Kaufmann apologizes to anyone, it should be Hispanics - There wasn’t one in the entire series!


20 posted on 06/30/2022 6:48:47 AM PDT by PGR88 (<i>)
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